The API doesn't specify how a support for some feature is provided by the driver / h/w. 16 series (and 10 series but it lacks other features which are required for FL12_2) support DXR via general compute on CUDA cores. So technically it's compliant. Performance though...
Problem with that is it's only 0.3GB/s faster then UFS3.1, but uses more power and likely costs significantly more.Whoever found this information it is pretty intriguing to consider an ssd like this for a future Switch.
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Yes full bore it wouldn't be feasible to dedicate 3+ watts just to the ssd, but Nintendo wouldn't need 2GB/s read speeds and could get away with 1GB or slightly less than that would be highly impressive and a wattage they could spare in portable mode. Question isn't if Nintendo can use ssd because there's clearly a possible option for them, but can they also come up with the next generation game cards that read fast enough to produce a similar effect.
What's the perfect balance to strike with mobile hardware that will allow gamers to just game directly from the storage medium without waiting forever or installing everything? Clearly the lower cpu cores has a major factor in this as well, since they introduced those boost modes to reduce load times in certain games.
You can't have it be as powerful as a PS4 Pro but you can definitely make a handheld that can run a game that the PS4 pro originally ran at 1800p or whatever, at 720p undocked and 1080p/900p docked with otherwise identical graphics.
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there is an upcoming SD Card update that will allow for read speeds up to 985MB/s and allow for backwards compatibility
Memory cards are about to get much faster with new microSD Express spec
The new format announced at MWC 2019 promises speeds up to 985 MB/s
who knows. but at some point decisions will have to be made regarding how storage will be handled. if you sit an wait for an inexpensive alternative to pop up, then playing games off SD will be nonviable until a hardware revision comes up. or they could just bite the bullet and support the new and expensive, but backwards compatible, evolution of the current format and weather the storm. either way, a large amount of built-in storage is gonna be need to help.
Your logic is correct, however Nvidia states on their website that only RTX GPUs support DX12 Ultimate and will get that "seal of quality" so to speak. So I guess HW-RT is a requirement after all.
Thats quite an aggressive statement.
I dont see them going that far.
This is promising news at leastthere is an upcoming SD Card update that will allow for read speeds up to 985MB/s and allow for backwards compatibility
Memory cards are about to get much faster with new microSD Express spec
The new format announced at MWC 2019 promises speeds up to 985 MB/s
That would be a solution but pretty expensive seeing as they only have 32GB Switches now 🤔
for a second I thought I was reading the old XSX/PS5 threads
RT is an important part of DX12U so it would be weird for them to include 16 series into their statements when it's nowhere near powerful enough to pull off RT even in the fastest titles on the market.
there's only so much space you can fit ram chips on a mobile-oriented mainboard. two kinds of ram means they can't even stack them. two of the same chips would be better than one chip for bandwidth and probably cheaper as they can use multiple less dense chips. at this small size, there's not much reason to go split like a traditional console or PC
There's still a huge market for budget GPU video cards. Not everyone wants to spend a grand or two on a laptop. They are here to stay, Turing or ampere, for another decade/generation. It just seems redundant to me to use ray tracing on anything below 6 TFLOPs/Nvidia 2060. It takes up a ton of processing power, dedicated cores or not . Hell, Nvidia 2060 isn't even a good graphics card for it. And knowing nintendo's history with affordability over power and tech, they will go with the former and something like ray tracing could be a generation after switch 2, or some kind of pro home model.
XFMEXPRESS would be a better form factor than 2230.
It's impractical to adopt UFS as an external storage media given its price and how it isn't ubiquitous like SD. Adopting a proprietary storage solution for external drives will be like Sony's Memory Sticks all over again.
It's still quite expensive for the mass consumer (256GB is $100!). Alternatively, SD Express could be deemed a better option.
I wasn't aware of it. It looks like it's single lane NVMe. I can't find any for sale. UFS is on the market though.
SD Express is relatively recent, with the announcement for microSD express happening just last year. one problem adoption will have is phones phasing out memory cards, and not necessitating super fast cards. Switch just might be the most popular device using them
Yep. Single lane PCIe 3.0 NVMe. All good by me. I'll read the PDF a bit more later. Hopefully it suggests a decent controller with some cache built in and eventually gets an upgrade to PCIe 4.0 some day.
Does a new "Switch 2" need to utilize the micro format though? Wouldn't it be beneficial for them to adopt a "slightly larger" form factor (as in system wise, with the screen being larger than a regular Switch), which mould make regular SD support practical?
I brought it up to highlight the recency. the standard card was announced the year before that. will probably take awhile to get supported but for stuff like IoT could use it.
I have the feeling they've changed from a hardware refresh to a full on successor even prior to this pandemic. Something tells me they were ready to announce their "pro" model but their momentum with Switch rev. 2 was doing quite well and that they didn't have any clear new direction/"gimmick" with said "pro" model so they instead started focusing on a next-gen successor.
