2020-12-21, 07:14
(2020-12-21, 04:15)dwalme Wrote:(2020-12-21, 02:04)MrCrispy Wrote: Are there any new features in the 2019 Shield that are NOT done in software. The new codec support, DV, Dolby license is all software. I am not 100% sure about AI upscaler but I'd be very surprised if it wouldn't run on the older models since X1+ is identical to X1 but with die shrink for less heat etc made for the Switch.
Nvidia could easily have offered this as an upgrade to older loyal Shield owners, add the new remote and its an identical device. I feel like its such a ripoff to charge $200 for hardware thats 5+ years old now.
New hardware. Same old SOC, but new manufacturing process allows the SOC to perform ~25% faster than the old models. That performance is required for AI Upscaling. Perhaps other things too.
It's been well proven the CPU performance is identical to 2015/2017 Nvidia Shields.
There is likely a tiny bit faster eMMC and RAM in the 2019 model.
16nm vs 20nm manufacturing in the end means lees power required which also generates less heat, which is important to the Tegra X1+ equipped 2010 Nintendo Switch.
The Advertised ~25% performance increase is actually a GPU MHz clock increase:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1
