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After talking with him directly, basically Drake is/was 5LPP, but the place where he got the info, the info for it disappeared, which he assumes means it was canceled.

It's definitely interesting, because we know it wasn't canceled, the chip is alive and well inside the public linux kernel and is already physically complete for about 6 months now, so I wonder where they got 5LPP for T239 from, because if they heard it, anyone can lie, but if they saw T239 was...

T239 "Drake" looking like it is indeed Samsung 5nm, meaning higher clocks than Orin, in line with what I discussed recently should be possible.

EMMC has a read speed of 400MB/s, that is actually fast enough for current gen games IMO, UFS 3.1 is the hope though, would put it at parity with current gen consoles, really just matters what Nintendo is planning on price and storage, but there is a cool little device on the market called...

Tegra X1 was actually pretty great for March 2017, I mean it certainly punches above it's weight. I do agree that Drake even with lower clocks makes sense, however even if the CPU were to pull 3w, they could still comfortably go for it. I actually think we will see Nintendo use a 5000mah battery...

This chart shows what A78 power consumption is on TSMC 5nm (which is better than Samsung 5nm, but Samsung 4nm is closer). What's actually important here is A77 consumes 1w at 2.6Ghz, and that A78 consumes less than half of A77 at 2.3GHz at 2.1GHz. This means the drop from 3GHz to 2GHz is...

Absolutely, I'm aware of this. However 2TFLOPs Ampere =! 2TFLOPs RDNA, flops is still the primary way GPU performance on paper is compared, it's what most people have used in this thread, but I needed to undercut Drake's flop numbers, because they should under perform vs RDNA flop to flop, it...

Ok, all caught up, we know that if Switch 2 launches in 2023 or 2024, it will be T239, because 12 months ago, Nvidia was hacked and NVN files (up to date from Feb 2022) only supported 3 SoCs, T210 (Erista), T214 (Mariko), T239 (Drake). There is no other hardware as of 13 months ago, that this...

This thread is finally moving again, still catching up but had a couple posts I wanted to comment on from Page 28. This is unlikely. Drake completed final silicon in August last year, after the supposed model was canceled. Linux work continues on it, and it's Ampere/A78, basically Orin, so no...

Yeah this is my chart, it's important to remember that these numbers are at high load, when comparing to Zelda botw at launch (Erista 20nm), that is why I made a medium load to the right for each number. This better reflects the comparison with Zelda botw's power draw in portable mode and docked...

So yesterday someone found in the Linux site that engineer samples of Drake existing in April this year. Rumors point to 1half of next year for the release, have for about 2 years now, both before and after bloomberg's report, and now Zelda is there in May. Yeah but that is sort of my point, we...

Just read through this post and thought I'd correct some things. A78 has a higher IPC than Ryzen 2 found in Playstation 5 or Xbox Series. Also from the Linux code, we can see its a single 8 core cluster with a single frequency, if it were big.little or DynamIQ, there would be code for multiple...

Nintendo was spotted working on TX1 power consumption in August 2014 via LinkedIn, so while TX1 was still not finalized, it was always a product for Nintendo, in fact there is an Nvidia Tegra roadmap from 2013 that says TX1 is codenamed "Parker" with Denver cores and Maxwell produced at 16nm. A...

These aren't rumors, it's leaked. L2 and L3 is actually shared between CPU and GPU in Tegra, so the cache is huge regardless. The SoC is known from Kopite7's tweet in spring 2021, where he identified T239 as a custom Tegra chip made for Nintendo. The Nvidia hack on March 1st this year had NVN2...

This was just found, T239 has 8 cores in a single cluster, pointing to A78C being used and confirmed for new Switch hardware, this also might be used in a future Nvidia shield device, given the Linux OS. So the device has 8 A78C cores and 1536 Cuda Cores and fits and runs in a Switch form...