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Nintendo Switch Houses a Nvidia Tegra X1-SoC

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/17/2017 09:19 AM | source: | 14 comment(s)
Nintendo Switch Houses a Nvidia Tegra X1-SoC

Analysis from Chipworks shows that the Nintendo Switch makes use of a Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC, much like the one used in the Shield that we reviewed yesterday. The usage of this SoC is not a surprise but never was openly admitted by Nvidia and Nintendo. Many assumed the unit would use a custom designed SoC.

Here's techinsights with their update:

After subsequent processing of the GPU from the Nintendo Switch, we have determined that the processor is the Nvidia Tegra T210. The T210 CPU features 4 Cortex A57 and 4 Cortex A53 processor cores and the GPU is a GM20B Maxell core.  Download the high resolution image here.

The  unit is based upon an 8-core Tegra X1 SoC (64-bit) which is an in-house Nvidia ARM SoC from the Tegra series.  It features what is called a BIG little setup that has been arranged as four ARM Cortex-A57 processor cores and then four ARM Cortex-A53 cores.
 

 
NVIDIA Tegra GPU Specs Compared
  K1 X1
CUDA Cores 192 256
Texture Units 8 16
ROPs 4 16
GPU Clock 950MHz 1000MHz
Memory Clock 930MHz (LPDDR3) 1600MHz (LPDDR4)
Memory Bus Width 64-bit 64-bit
FP16 Peak 365 GFLOPS 1024 GFLOPS
FP32 Peak 365 GFLOPS 512 GFLOPS
Architecture Kepler Maxwell
Manufacturing Process TSMC 28nm TSMC 20nm SoC


The big A57 cores have more L2 cache (2MB) plus slightly bigger instruction and data-caches. The unit houses 256 shader/stream/cuda processors based on an all too familiar Maxwell architecture, the codename for the SoC is GM20B. If you look at the upper screenshot, you can literally count the 256 cores arranged in 32 sets of 8. So albeit it won't be high-end gaming, simple Android games will be plenty fast thanks to this design. Despite what many people think, it's not a 28nm fab but actually is one of the few products fabbed on 20nm.

  • CPU: ARMv8 ARM Cortex-A57 (1.9 Ghz) quad-core + ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core (64-bit).
  • GPU: Maxwell-based 256 core GPU
  • MPEG-4 HEVC & VP9 encoding/decoding support
  • TSMC 20 nm process
  • Power consumption less than 10 Watts


Nintendo Switch Houses a Nvidia Tegra X1-SoC Nintendo Switch Houses a Nvidia Tegra X1-SoC




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Fox2232
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#5408251 Posted on: 03/17/2017 10:25 AM
Yesterday I wondered about possibility to actually get Tegra X1 to dualboot into Switch mode.

And since it is same chip, it may even be virtualized at very low performance cost as long as host device has enough of memory.

asturur
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#5408262 Posted on: 03/17/2017 11:03 AM
or better, an emulator would come fast.
I m not for piracy at all, i own all nintendo console and i buy games, just to be clear.
But emulation on higher end machines has is fascinating and bring often a better experience

Ricepudding
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#5408290 Posted on: 03/17/2017 01:32 PM
or better, an emulator would come fast.
I m not for piracy at all, i own all nintendo console and i buy games, just to be clear.
But emulation on higher end machines has is fascinating and bring often a better experience


Would be nice to be able to play zelda 1440p at 60fps on a PC :D

RealNC
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#5408295 Posted on: 03/17/2017 01:43 PM
Potato gear confirmed. Well, we already knew that. It's just that it's confirmed now :-P

Undying
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#5408296 Posted on: 03/17/2017 01:47 PM
So it have Maxwell cores? I guess rumors about Pascal was wrong.

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