@ the bolded: Wasn’t that Nate that said that?
Second part of post: that isn’t impossible, no I’m not really saying that, as we have worked out the math behind it and based on what is out there and available, however how likely is it to launch 1 year
after the release of the NSW OLED and not 2 years after like the other models that have been introduced to the platform? If we are to credit this as a revision, wouldn’t it make sense to expect it in the same time difference of two years?
They’ve been playing their cards almost perfectly and have basically avoided a lot of overload for the product family, with very clear messaging on one over the other. This is only speculation, but the V2 model is very likely to get phased out over the course of the next fiscal year (FY23) to make room for the OLED as the next flagship and then a price drop by then to the OG model’s price range of 299.99, while the
SUPER Nintendo Switch
is priced at a rather expensive price of 399.99, but continuing the cross gen period for a while.
While true, the 7 available cores at 1GHz would outperform the 3 available core at 2GHz in this scenario (1 core reserved to OS)
A good middle ground is also 6 Cores at 1.5-1.8(?)GHz + 2-4 little cores at 1.3GHz(?) for the OS, in this case it would outperform the both scenarios while keeping the low power profile and not dedicate a big core for the OS.
But it’s an odd design of possibly a 8-10 core CPU, something I don’t see them doing.
On another note: The weird thing about Ampere that I keep forgetting is that, they list the decompression from an SSD as a feature that the GPU can assist/do with and I’m accustomed to it taking CPU resources for that. The RTX I/O should not be ignored for this as a feature even if it’s their own rebranded form of RTX I/O (Mega Mushroom I/O? lol) to not use of a CPU for the same job.
Let’s
assume it is 8 SMs, for conversation sake, can’t 1 SM be dedicated just for RTX I/O? Or is it something that is shared across all the SMS as a minor GPU resource?
PS5 and SX|S have a separate CPU core or 2 for this specific purpose I think?
and don’t you need DirectStorage for this?