PC enthusiasts already know the general rule that the smaller the nanometer of the chip, the more powerful the chip is. While consumers only experienced an increase in battery life, the change in nm, or nanometers, actually indicates an increase in the power of the CPU. The original Nintendo Switch had a 20nm Tegra CPU, and the updated Switch version 2.0 from 2019 had a 16 nm CPU. It makes sense why the OLED model is so different even though the internal specs remain the same.” This is likely the canceled Switch Pro model that Digital Foundry mentioned. This remains unrealized, we also know that the GPU clock for Mariko goes as high as 1.267MHz offering 648GFLOPs, compared to OG’s 393GFLOPs, the CPU also was similar enabled for higher clocks, short of 2GHz. Thanks to Thraktor’s digging, OLED model seems to have been designed to output 4K image, possibly via upscaling (non-tensor core accelerated). TX1 on 20nm was 1.83w for the 4 cores on A57 which could not be individually down clocked for the 4th core on the OS. Orin’s CPU power consumption for 8 cores 1.881MHz is 4.5w, considering only 7 cores would be used for games, with one being reserved for the OS, this would give 3.94w on those 7 cores, and a reduction of power consumption to half is 1.97w.

624MHz with Drake’s configuration requires ~8.5w on 8nm, and the name of this DLSS test’s clock was “4.3w”, this lines up extremely well with the rumor that Drake is on 5LPP, these numbers are estimations, and the GPU is different, but it falls in the realistic range, as does 1.125GHz from what I’ve been able to extrapolate from the tool.

I tracked Orin’s estimated power consumption via Nvidia’s power estimation tools.

Docked mode would offer 3.456TFLOPs (same tier as Xbox Series S) + DLSS.

Handheld mode would offer 2TFLOPs (better than steam deck) + DLSS.

I believe these are 3 separate tests for 3 separate modes, “handheld”, “docked” and “stress test”.

The new steam deck