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Very good. So I guess we will have die pics soon enough. Could be (at least I hope so) a salvage chip of the full T239 and the Switch 2 will get 8 CPU cores and 1536 ALUs. Also interesting it has a 128 bit memory LPDDR5 interface. Hope we will see at least LPDDR5-3200 in the Switch 2.

Do we know anything that is on Samsung's 5nm LPP? Snapdragon 888 was on LPE for example.

I sincerely hope they will stay with the 720p OLED screen of the current OLED model. The number of games, that run in native resolution on current Switch is already low enough. That way at least the OG Switch games will run in native res on Switch 2 ;) I am also expecting no more than 128GB of...

Well, Sony and Microsoft certainly won't use low power processes. I could see them using Samsung's 4nm LPE process, which is also used in mainstream smartphone SoCs.

If we really get a configuration with 1536 shader processors (48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 48 Tensor Cores, 12 RT Cores) as indicated by the rumors, I think we can get performance close to or even above PS4 (handheld) and PS4 pro / XBoxSeriesS (docked) even with moderate clocks (500-600 MHz handheld...

Yeah, something like this, would be interesting to see how Ampere's power consumption reacts to lower frequencies. Anyway, I think on 5nm such a setup wouldn't be too far fetched.

In docked mode this is definitely possible. 768 to 1024 CUDA cores would be sufficient to reach this goal (depending on the frequency). In handheld mode closer to XBoneS then. They will have to, as there is no stock solution as has been written before, but I guess it will be heavily based on...

I am really curious what nVidia can bring up for the successor of the Switch. Obviously data management will be a big thing for next-gen and while I don't expect anything close to XBSX/PS5 levels of performance in a hybrid device, Nintendo won't be dismissing these developments completely I am...

I think a 8 CU setup would make the most sense size wise and they can re-use this setup for the Renoir successor.

The Volta GPU part of Xavier (512 CUDA cores) has a die size of 89mm² (around 1/4 of the complete chip), at 7nm this should come out at 50-55mm². The real problem with Xavier is the huge amount of unneccessary transistors for a gaming specific application, also the Carmel CPU cores are fucking...

They have a multi-year agreement with Nintendo and are paying for R&D for the custom chip anyway, regardless of which generation it is based on I suppose.

What do you mean with that? It doesn't really depend on which generation the GPU comes from, but transistor count resp. die size. It could also use shrinked Volta GPU of course, and for what its worse, I don't really care. I just used Ampere, because it already will be on 7nm and will have some...

What can we realistically expect from a Switch Pro/2 in 2020/21? As the Xavier NX is way too big but no other chip is available that could make a big enough leap over the TX1, I can only see a custom chip on 7nm EUV with a 8-core CPU cluster (either 8 Cortex-A77 or 4 A77 / 4 A55 configuration)...

^ This chip is 3x as big as the one in the original Switch, no way this will be used. I really only could see a custom chip for a successor, 8 core A77 (stock or nV derivate) and a 768 shader units GPU could be realistically done on 7nm EUV on roughly the same die size. Together with a 128bit...

Wonder why there isn't a teardown of the die by Chipworks / TechInsights yet?