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Nintendo Switch Successor may be Powered by Samsung SoC w/ AMD RDNA Graphics

Still seems more likely Nvidia

But MLID made a fool of himself again by in the very same video claiming the Switch 2 has the same GPU performance as a PS4 Pro (which is a 4.2tflop machine) and also claiming it's "20% faster than the Steamdeck" (which is a 1.6tflop) machine. So which one is it MLID, first you say it's a ps4 pro then a base ps4 lmao get your facts lies straight

wccftech.com

Switch 2 Performance Docked Comparable to PS4 Pro; Handheld Image Quality and Battery Better Than Steam Deck

Nintendo Switch 2 performance in docked mode will likely be comparable to the performance of the PlayStation 4 Pro.
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Was a surprise they switched to nvidia they've been using amd for quite some time, the gamecube used an Artx gpu but ati bought them so it came with an ati sticker on it despite not being an ati processor.

Suppose nvidia night be too busy with the ai Market to bother making a console gpu.
 
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Gerard said:
Was a surprise they switched to nvidia they've been using amd for quite some time, the gamecube used an Artx gpu but ati bought them so it came with an ati sticker on it despite not being an ati processor.

Suppose nvidia night be too busy with the ai Market to bother making a console gpu.
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If they are sticking with Nvidia it's probably an off the shelf Tegra, Nvidia doesn't do much custom work these days.

As for what Nvidia was used the 1st time, the switch contains a Tegra apu from 2015 and the console came out in 2017. Nintendo is well known for focusing on cost, and the Tegra model they chose was a last generation and not the top model and capped it to 15w

So if I'm trying to find an AMD equivalent, I'm going to look for APUs AMD sold in 2015/2016 and were rated for 15w because that is what Nvidia was competing with right, this was before Ryzen and RDNA. And what I found was that if the Switch used AMD then it would have being something like a A10-8700B or A10-9700P


Finding the performance numbers isn't easy, so this is as far as I got to comparing the Switch Nvidia APU with what AMD sold at the time. For specs, the 8700b for example had 6 GPU compute units at 800mhz and the Switch's APU has 16 Nvidia Tegra GPU cores operating at 768mhz

Probably the closest thing I can find to AMD's GPU where performance is available would be an r7 240 GPU, but it's not perfect because this is a 25w GPU, well above the switch TDP
 
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Not sure it needed an ancient thread bumped. :D
Isn't it pretty much guaranteed they're using the Tegra 239? Plenty of news about this at the end of last year.
 
Grim5 said:
Still seems more likely Nvidia

But MLID made a fool of himself again by in the very same video claiming the Switch 2 has the same GPU performance as a PS4 Pro (which is a 4.2tflop machine) and also claiming it's "20% faster than the Steamdeck" (which is a 1.6tflop) machine. So which one is it MLID, first you say it's a ps4 pro then a base ps4 lmao get your facts lies straight

wccftech.com

Switch 2 Performance Docked Comparable to PS4 Pro; Handheld Image Quality and Battery Better Than Steam Deck

Nintendo Switch 2 performance in docked mode will likely be comparable to the performance of the PlayStation 4 Pro.
wccftech.com wccftech.com
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Why do keep watching and quoting him when you repeatedly claim he is full of ****?

A few sandwiches short of a picnic? :p
 
TNA said:
Why do keep watching and quoting him when you repeatedly claim he is full of ****?

A few sandwiches short of a picnic? :p
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I actually did not watch any video nor would I, I'm referring to the transcript in the wccftech article
 
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Rumour and all, but it would be a big win for AMD to lock out the console market. It would maybe even help them push their technologies harder into games and game engines.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
Rumour and all, but it would be a big win for AMD to lock out the console market. It would maybe even help them push their technologies harder into games and game engines.
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Nvidia wouldn't allow it, they'd just throw more and more money to ensure Nintendo goes with them.
 
willhub said:
Nvidia wouldn't allow it, they'd just throw more and more money to ensure Nintendo goes with them.
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Why would they do that? I don't see how it benefits them to throw money at Nintendo to retain a market that means nothing to them, i think it will be Nintendo's choice and that choice may well be Nvidia, it could be Intel.
 
humbug said:
Why would they do that? I don't see how it benefits them to throw money at Nintendo to retain a market that means nothing to them, i think it will be Nintendo's choice and that choice may well be Nvidia, it could be Intel.
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Because perhaps Nvidia may want to keep hold to some console market share rather than loose it entirely, especially if it means AMD get a bigger grapple on that and such points like been able to push their tech harder could mean better performance on AMD's side which could further push up their market share in terms of GPUs on the PC side of that optimisation is translating to better performance.
 
willhub said:
Because perhaps Nvidia may want to keep hold to some console market share rather than loose it entirely, especially if it means AMD get a bigger grapple on that and such points like been able to push their tech harder could mean better performance on AMD's side which could further push up their market share in terms of GPUs on the PC side of that optimisation is translating to better performance.
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AMD are getting a larger slice of the console as it is, they own what is it, 5 out of the 6 handhelds now too?

Its Intel who are worried about that, i doubt MSI would have gone Intel instead of as everyone else has AMD unless Intel was paying handsomely, They are trying to brute force it with twice the power consumption and leaked tests show despite this the MSI Claw is slower than the Steam Deck with is the slowest of all of them, meanwhile MSI are delaying and obfuscating, there are problems, by the time they do get it out everyone else will be on Strix Point and that's a whole different game.

MSI aren't stupid and the smart thing to do would be to do what every one else did. Unless they are being paid to just put out a unit with a flawed chip in it.

There is a reason everyone goes AMD, they make by far and a long way the best low power APU.
 
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Isn't that Strix Point a small upgrade from the current Phoenix, as in CPU bump but still 780M? The MSI Claw is looking like an ROG Ally from Temu.
 
willhub said:
Isn't that Strix Point a small upgrade from the current Phoenix, as in CPU bump but still 780M? The MSI Claw is looking like an ROG Ally from Temu.
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I might be thinking of a different chip, the new one that's coming later this year. The one with the RDNA 3.5 iGPU.

MSI are trying to compare it to the ROG Ally as they think that's their closest competition, they are right about that.
 
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