Temperature controlled probably?I'm guessing the fan is only for docked mode correct?
There's no two's exponent that can be divided that way.
It adds up to exactly 10% loss.
Could it be a reserved time slice?
OS overlay?
Only human beings would remove something in base 10, maybe it's an arbitrary choice.
It was the entire GPU wasn't it? How would nintendo reserve a 10% time slice of the ROPs only?Hrm, where have we seen a 10% OS GPU reservations from before? Oh right, the original current generation consoles like the Xbox One. Granted they worked to free up more of that, but it was their first go at it. It might just seem like a lot in this situation because the numbers are smaller on Nintendo hardware.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...unlock-more-gpu-power-for-xbox-one-developers
"Xbox One has a conservative 10 per cent time-sliced reservation on the GPU for system processing. This is used both for the GPGPU processing for Kinect and for the rendering of concurrent system content such as snap mode," Microsoft technical fellow Andrew Goossen told us.
"The current reservation provides strong isolation between the title and the system and simplifies game development - strong isolation means that the system workloads, which are variable, won't perturb the performance of the game rendering. In the future, we plan to open up more options to developers to access this GPU reservation time while maintaining full system functionality."
It's only a 6" tablet. Keep the skin cooler than passive cooling. Etc.So why does this thing have a fan (plus one in the dock) if it's this low? Seems unnecessary.
Apparently the Google Pixel C doesn't have those A53 cores enabled either. I don't think it actually has a Big LITTLE implementation and it's not like their previous shadow core implementation either.The small cores exist only as a power management trick. Only 4 cores are active at a time, so might as well remove the small ones? Or did that change and they can use all 8 at a time? If so, they could have kept them for the OS.
Temperature controlled probably?
Knowing Nintendo, they would put the absolute minimum amount of metal in the heat sink, so it would still need a fair amount of airflow at half or a third of the power.
Not according to the recent patent application, which explicitly states the cooling fan is running at a lower RPM while in mobile mode.I'm guessing the fan is only for docked mode correct?
It seems unnecessary and it is unnecessary. Clocks have come from a reliable-ish source. The rest has not.So why does this thing have a fan (plus one in the dock) if it's this low? Seems unnecessary.
They wouldn't.It was the entire GPU wasn't it? How would nintendo reserve a 10% time slice of the ROPs only?
It has the footprint of a 8" tablet in height and width and twice the thickness of a modern tablet.It's only a 6" tablet. Keep the skin cooler than passive cooling. Etc.
Not according to the recent patent application, which explicitly states the cooling fan is running at a lower RPM while in mobile mode.
I am sort of hoping the low clock in portable mode means 100% passive cooling in portable mode..