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SemiAccurate: Nintendo NX handheld to use Nvidia Tegra-based Soc
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Dark Cloud
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Portugeezer
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Is this as trustworthy as Eurogamer?
He does get info from Emily Rogers, plus he's an actual reporter (as I was told in this thread).
Silent_Ocarina
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No disrespect to 10k but I think all he knows are what Emily and Nate have told him in addition to his Polaris sources.
SemiAccurate have been, well... semi accurate in the past. But things are lining up nicely, so I don't see why not. They usually provide tidbits + info on chipsets and such.
::kid wants new thing that plays pokemon::
::mom buys kid new thing that plays pokemon::
::kids boots up new thing that plays pokemon for the first time::
...ok probably not so much when plugged into a tv lol but the handheld will probably be great
Pretty much. All I meant by that post was a response to August being a leaky month from outlets. Lot's of rumors and reports are gonna be posted by outlets.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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If 10k stated his own name, it'd be a rumor taken with a mountain of salt.
I always find it funny how Spanish people tell me they can't understand Portuguese at all but the Portuguese can understand Spanish mostly lol.
It's Kevin. Don't do this.
ecosse_011172
Junior Member
That's nonsense, I'm a fluent Spanish speaker and travelled around Brazil speaking Spanish and understanding Portuguese. Spanish is much easier for Portuguese speakers than vice versa but Spanish speakers can read Portuguese relatively easily and understand various amounts of spoken Portuguese.
"Can't understand at all" is horseshit but people love to exaggerate .
It was anecdotal obviously. And it didn't refer to writing. It was the dialogue. My Colombian friend can't understand when my family starts speaking Portuguese to each other but we can understand him and all the novella's on TV lol.
But back on topic, NateDrake is essentially saying shit's about to go down.
Furnas, Sao Miguel! Represent!
Agreed. We all need to temper our expectations! Even if it's pascal based, X2, whatever, if it's a custom design they could do anything to it, sacrifice cores for more embedded memory for example, Nintendo loves memory-focused chips.
not to mention, to keep it cool for portable, it will likely be downclocked severely, look at the 3DS, DS, or any portable basically, Nintendo is always on the conservative side compared to what it's chips are "capable" of.
Not to mention that Tegra based portables like the Shield, have always had an active fan in them to keep the thing cool, which makes them bigger, and prone to failure, I'm not sure Nintendo would ever put a fan in it's portable.
Mind you plugged into the dock, who knows what it'll be capable of.
Regarding the X1 being overclocked in the Dev Kits, all Tegra based machines have active fans in them, so we don't know if it's over clocked or whatever, could be underclocked, and Nintendo is just being Nintendo.
How about that, the X2 could be a severely underclocked X2 Pascal based, which performs less than the X1 in the Shield TV, due to clocks, and missing cores to increase yields, but it's super efficient due to the increased embedded memory?
I'm just being devils advocate here, let's keep our expectation in check!
ps, this is fun isn't it, reminds me of all the WiiU anticipation threads... lol
They want a foot in the console market door again. Nvidia will do anything* it takes to get that, even if that means taking a loss.
*Not actually anything
Well of course. Not being in the console business hurt their feelings. You can only be salty for so long. Maybe it's also that they just needed someone to buy spare Tegras.
Aren't the spare Tegras at 20nm which nobody wants to use? I'd assume the Tegras in the nx handheld will be new 16nm ones.
I don't know if this can work anymore when huge portions of your addressable audience carry very advanced devices with them at all times.
John Kowalski
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won't this fucking thing just come out omg
this tension is not good for my health
this tension is not good for my health
LegendofLex
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It all depends on whether there's a hunger for the game experiences, though, doesn't it?
Sometimes they use old technology in a way that results in games people trip over each other for (The Legend of Zelda with its battery-powered saves, Wii Sports with its gesture-controlled sports).
Sometimes they use old technology and all we get are games most people don't care about (Nintendo Land with its asymmetrical minigames based on Nintendo IP, Star Fox Zero).
Night Angel
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Isnt the rumour that Nvidia had a contract with a manufacturer for a certain amount of chips that they weren't going to need since the X1 largely flopped.
Nvidia was hoping to renegotiate that deal as it would cost them 300M to back out. In comes Nintendo. so even if Nvidia sold the chips at cost. It would be saving them 300M by not having to back out of the first deal.
Fourth Storm
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I've never heard that rumor jdstorm. Do you have a source on that? Sounds like rampant speculation in order to justify this supposed deal Nintendo are getting. But the way I see it, the deal with Nvidia is on the Tegra IP along with a contract for software support, assistance and design collaboration. Nintendo would still also be paying TSMC directly to fabricate the wafers for them.
Nvidia has no logical reason to be "desperate" to get into the console business, with it's thin profit margins. It's a narrative AMD apologists have run with, but it holds no water.
They literally don't need the action. There's simply no way they jumped in, to take a loss.
They literally don't need the action. There's simply no way they jumped in, to take a loss.
It's probably just speculation that I read on GAF. That I'm repeating as fact.
My Bad
That's one of the reasons why I'm still skeptical about the whole Nvidia + Nintendo deal.
They are desperate for Tegra sales. Teslas and some under performing tablets aren't going to make keeping their mobile division worthwhile.
::kid wants new thing that plays pokemon::
::mom buys kid new thing that plays pokemon::
::kids boots up new thing that plays pokemon for the first time::
best argument I read here.
Plus Ubi tell us it is a casual machine and Sega announce only the 3D Sonic.
Man... I will down my expectations.
brainchild
Banned
Seriously. I'm surprised the division has been kept afloat for this long!
Well a nintendo system will sell more product than just about anything Nvidia will sell on its own (other than car stuff).
So,i imagine it'd be a good win for them.
dr_rus
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That's also likely the part which is "semi" accurate.
They are not "desperate" in the slightest.
Auto is basically all Tegra based.
LordOfChaos
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I've been curious about your other test more and more, the one I believe you coined and I paraphrase the "blu needs to throw together a benchmark benchmark", which had the results
Code:
| CPU | N-way SIMD ALUs | flops/clock/core |
| ------------------------- | ---------------- | ---------------- |
| IBM PowerPC 750CL (Wii U CPU) | 2-way | 1.51 |
| AMD Bobcat | 2-way | 1.47 |
| Intel Sandy Bridge | 8-way | 9.04 |
| Intel Ivy Bridge (no SMT) | 8-way | 8.82 |
| Intel Ivy Bridge | 8-way | 9.09 |
| Intel Haswell | 8-way | 9.56 |
| Intel Xeon Phi / KNC | 16-way | 6.62 |
| iMX53 Cortex-A8 | 2-way | 2.23 |
| RK3368 Cortex-A53 | 2-way | 2.42 |
| AppliedMicro X-Gene 1 | 2-way | 2.71 |
| Apple A7 | 4-way | 11.07 |
| Apple A8 | 4-way | 12.19 |
| Apple A9 | 4-way | 16.79 |What workload is that from curiously? If KNC is doing worse than Haswell it's obviously not something that is making good use of the vector instruction set on KNC of course. Similar Haswell+ should do a fair bit better than anything previous if AVX2 is being used, but I'm guessing the workload is just not hammering FLOPS in a way that it shows up. Any chance I can see it?
Also since I'm drudging the numbers up I'll take the liberty of adding the caveat - Jaguar shouldn't be assumed to be like Bobcat there as it doubles the SIMD ALUs, the total cache, etc.
That's also likely the part which is "semi" accurate.
They are not "desperate" in the slightest.
Auto is basically all Tegra based.
Their stock is also just under double what it was at the start of the year. So investors don't think they are struggling either.
mugurumakensei
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eh, to respond to both you and the person you responded to, nVidia doesn't have to be struggling in order for them to be "desperate" for a console win. I put desperate in quotes as that's not an accurate term. it'd be more precise to say another continuous revenue stream means growth which means more investors buying in which means a larger budget for the Tegra/SoC division. thus, the management of that division has strong incentive to tell their licensing division to secure licensees in as many industries as possible including the console industry if possible.