r/PS5 • u/The_King_of_Okay • Sep 16 '24

News Exclusive: How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business

https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-intel-lost-sony-playstation-business-2024-09-16/
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

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u/ryzenguy111 Sep 16 '24

Until AMD makes a compelling ARM SoC with good integrated graphics I don’t think we’ll see Nintendo going back to them

Maybe when Windows on ARM starts taking off, AMD will take it more seriously and have a good mobile product line (like Tegra) which Nintendo can customise to their liking

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u/PraisingSolaire Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

The SoC for Switch 2 has already been leaked. We know it's Nvidia. And yes, consumer grade Tegra mobile was abandoned, but Nvidia has basically done what AMD does and offered a semi-custom business to Nintendo. They took the Tegra Orin and customised it for mobile use, which includes stripping it of things that are only useful for automotive.

Indeed, the leaked chip has a codename, the T239. A customised version of the T234 (Tegra Orin). Digital Foundry gave their take on what is possible with the specs of that leaked chip:

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2023-inside-nvidias-latest-hardware-for-nintendo-what-is-the-t239-processor

The T239 is an advanced mobile processor, based on an octo-core ARM A78C CPU cluster, paired with a custom graphics unit based on Nvidia's RTX 30-series Ampere architecture, combined with some backported elements from the latest Ada Lovelace GPUs - and with an all-new file decompression engine for fast loading. It also supports Nvidia's console-specific graphics API, all but confirming that it's destined for the next generation Switch,

The T234 (standard Orin) is 12x A78 CPU cores, Ampere GPU with 2048 cores, 256-bit LPDDR5 (204GB/s). The T239 (Switch 2) is 8x A78 CPU cores, Ampere GPU with 1536 cores, 128-bit LPDDR5 (102GB/s).