frankie_baby
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Oh of course, but there are people that like doing stuff just because its hard, it would also be much faster than an SD card
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Oh of course, but there are people that like doing stuff just because its hard, it would also be much faster than an SD card
Wtf? Power banks, my dude.
There is no space for a bigger battery. It's a 4310 mAh battery. That's huge, even for smartphone standards. It's a lot bigger than Galaxy S7 Edge and iPhone 7 Plus' batteries.
There are Pascal chips designated with A1 are there not?
I'd assume the A2 is a revision code, not something that tells us the chip itself.
Yeah that's true, but we don't know if you can just copy/paste the OS in the original memory to the new one without any problem.
Yes, A2 can be anything. Revision sounds to be a reasonable explanation.
Gotdatmoney
Member
There is no way to know that. All we know is it's a revision which makes sense given it's a custom chip.
Dark Cloud
Member
It's not what's on the outside that matters, but it's what's in the inside that matters.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Any shortcomings of the tablet form factor are easily bypassable. Battery constraints? Power bank. Storage constraints? Micro SD cards. I'm thrilled with the Switch's design, seems about as good as it can be.
frankie_baby
Member
Oh of course, i bet someone tries though
ShadowFox08
Member
oh god.. by the end of the day we should know most of the specs(hopefully). Hopefully we'll know if its foxconn clockspeeds by end of the first week of release
this is how i'm feelilng
SpawnWave and SuperMetalDave64 is gonna be all over this shit.
this is how i'm feelilng
SpawnWave and SuperMetalDave64 is gonna be all over this shit.
It does. I'm really impressed.
Just to be sure, is Pascal older or Maxwell older?
Gotdatmoney
Member
Maxwell is older.
Maxwell is older
Maxwell is the older one.
I'm slow.
Pascal is in many ways a revision of the Maxwell micro-architecture.
Edit: Beaten...
Which is still extremely inefficient and poor compared to its' mobile peers.
In terms of hardware engineering, this thing has more in common with mobile devices of 2008 than it does with say an iPad Pro.
Very odd engineering decisions. I'm surprised this is getting so much praise but I suspect most people here don't look at many other hardware teardowns or architecture diagrams. The WiiU was a damn mess internally but this is a pretty substantial leap for them.
oh god.. by the end of the day we should know most of the specs(hopefully). Hopefully we'll know is foxconn clockspeeds by end of the first week of release
this is how i'm feelilng
SpawnWave and SuperMetalDave64 is gonna be all over this shit.
Thanks. And Switch is using Pascal or still to be confirmed? Where's Digital Foundry? They're normally fast with this. dark10x??
Uhm..
Pascal is a newer architecture based on Maxwell and a reduced fabrication node.
But I was just joking about the enthusiasm started by a mere codification, like A2.
What?
ShadowFox08
Member
Wouldn't it be fairly easy to tell the amount of RAM? Easier than CPU and GPU specs at least..
I too am curious about what exactly he's on about.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Do you have anything to back that up? Just kind of sounds like you're needlessly hating based on everyone elses reaction.
You guys better believe him, he sounds like an expert.........
lollllllllllllllllllllllllllz!!!!!!!!!!
……forgetit
Member
What? How is it inefficient? The actual battery specs line up with it's size. You play a 3D game on an iPad pro and see how long it lasts.
NeOak
Member
There's no confirmation of the fabrication node, unless somebody measures the chip.
Since it's a system on a chip (soc), the ram is inside that thing in the photo. I don't think it's possible to tell the amount of ram because of that
NeOak
Member
You have no knowledge of embedded systems if you claim this BS.
SOCs don't have the RAM on package. It's there, outside.
You're thinking of stacking on top, but that wasn't done here. And it is a different process.
Diprosalic
Banned
People said this was underpowered with a shitty battery but this beautiful.
Da hell? This guy is going places...
frankie_baby
Member
Jonneh3003
Banned
People seem to forget the Switch is a tablet and treat it like a traditional console.
People said Federer wouldn't reach 18.
I didn't know that, sorry!
The people who said that had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.
From the reveal it was fairly obvious that this is the most advanced, most powefull mobile device (tablet size one anyway) available to the general public.
* not counting something like the Surface pro 4 and even then, I believe the GPU in the switch to be far beyond whatever the IGPU on the i7 can do
Diprosalic
Banned
Yup. They have no idea how small it is when you take out the battery and screen (something the other consoles don't have) it's tiny.
UnemployedVillain
Member
Get the fuck out of here with this trolling. This is embarrassing. It's not poor and comparing it to tablets like the iPad Pro, where the smallest size is 9.7" and expecting it to have a battery that this is stupid
TheDinoman
Member
"But Nintendo says it's a home console first and foremost!"
I'm really glad they weren't slouching on the battery, really shows they were trying to give you as much as they possibly could.
I'm hoping it's Pascal cause that'll be great for us and Nintendo, but I'll keep my expectations in check that it's Maxwell. It's still a good architecture anyways.
I'm hoping it's Pascal cause that'll be great for us and Nintendo, but I'll keep my expectations in check that it's Maxwell. It's still a good architecture anyways.