Posting this again. Regarding the clock speeds of the GPU. Since it is clocked so low and that the Switch has a fan, we'd like to think there are more SMs in the Switch but is that likely?
First, since the Switch is clocked at 307.2 MHz giving 157 GFlops for 2 SM or 236 GFlops for 3 SM. The low clock speed suggests that this can't be manufactured on a 16nmFF node otherwise it could get clocked higher to give more performance when getting a 60% reduction in power consumption.
Since adding more SMs would make the GPU larger and increase the cost as well, by how much I don't know but it seems it'd cost more than manufacturing the SoC at 16nmFF with just 2 SMs.
It seems from leaks that the new Shield TV being shown at CES also has 2 SM if there is any possible correlation.
There is still the matter of the old dev-kits having loud fans suggesting they were overclocked and it may be possible that this hints at more than 2 SM for the Switch but still? I don't know.
First, since the Switch is clocked at 307.2 MHz giving 157 GFlops for 2 SM or 236 GFlops for 3 SM. The low clock speed suggests that this can't be manufactured on a 16nmFF node otherwise it could get clocked higher to give more performance when getting a 60% reduction in power consumption.
Since adding more SMs would make the GPU larger and increase the cost as well, by how much I don't know but it seems it'd cost more than manufacturing the SoC at 16nmFF with just 2 SMs.
It seems from leaks that the new Shield TV being shown at CES also has 2 SM if there is any possible correlation.
There is still the matter of the old dev-kits having loud fans suggesting they were overclocked and it may be possible that this hints at more than 2 SM for the Switch but still? I don't know.