>Nintendo’s upcoming console, the Switch, has been certified as a Vulkan 1.0 conformant product by The Khronos Group. The confirmation comes after the console has been listed on the Khronos website as of the 18th December.
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>Vulkan 1.0 conformant
What did he mean by this?
For the record, PS4/PS5Pro and Xbone don't support Vulkan. Vulkan is the reason why Doom can run on even shitty gpus.
SWITCH CONFIRMED FOR LITERALLY BEING AS STRONG AS GTX1080
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literally Nintendoomed!
What does this mean?
The PS4 and Xbone already run on a low-level APIs anyway. And Vulkan is available for PC.
Sorry Nintentards, your "hybrid console" is a piece of shit.
I don't know what any of this means
So witch is "faking it"?
How is that possible when Maxwell literally can't into A-sync compute?
The fuck is this nerd shit. Someone explain
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Consoles don't need things like vulkan or DX12, you already have close to the metal access on the hardware
It means the switch can theoretically have literally infinite power
If Switch is so weak, how come it can do proper reflections when the PS4P can't?
game performance doesn't depend entirely on hardware
basically this means Switch software is more efficient so games can run better while spending less resources
tl;dr programmer magic makes it more powerful
maxwell is a rumor, this is an actual fact from khronos website
well duh, it's for lazy 3rd party devs that don't wanna waste time optimizing when trying to port games.
Oh. So Nintendo wins again, shitposters btfo, wonderful
Who says it's using Maxwell?
Digital Foundry, who pretty much never confirm false rumors.
False. On modern consoles games run like you would run a game on Windows or other OS. You use the API that's provided to you whatever that is Direct3D or OpenGL and that's it.
where does it say the hardware is not shit which we know it is since it's worse than the shield?
>maxwell is a rumor, this is an actual fact from khronos website
>Who says it's using Maxwell?
>Nintendog in charge of knowing shit about APIs
Stop posting.
>>Nintendo
Last I checked Nvidia is calling the shots on hardware
I'm not an absolute fucking nerd, what does "Vulkan conformant" mean?
>mynintendonews
Didn't they also sperg shit like the underclocked cpu on the wiiu too?
hardware raw power and developer competence are two very distinct things user
Who cares? People buy a console for the games not the Hardware
>OpenGL
let this meme die pls
Games are restricted by hardware
stop being retarded, they're linking the actual source
>so basically specs don't mean anything and it's all about the games?
gee, If feel like I heard this before, but I can't put my finger across it.
It means there's not going to be any Romulan issues
Im not talking if they have source or not just calling their bullshit to make the switch look less worse.
Was also proven to be a rumor that turned out fake.
Fake rumors:
>people saying it used maxwell
>the leaked clock speeds from eurogamer and digital foundry
Proven true:
>Switch uses vulken, which means games don't depend on the system graphics
It means game graphics do not depend on the console itself.
Imagine putting a 3DS cartridge into the 3DS, and the game play's in 4K. Its because of vulkan built into the cartridge. The game's graphics comes from the game itself instead of needing the 3DS at all. That's what vulkan means.
>Switch uses vulken, which means games don't depend on the system graphics
You wot?
are you sure you quoted the right post, faggot?
because i'm pretty sure that's not what I've wrote.
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It's a bit like having DirectX support on your console.
You basically need it to have any games at all from third parties.
>Imagine putting a 3DS cartridge into the 3DS, and the game play's in 4K. Its because of vulkan built into the cartridge.
Do Nintendo fanboys actually believe this bullshit?
Yes, Vulkan means that the games use graphics programming built into the game, instead of the graphics programming built into the system. Switch games can have displays that the Switch system shouldn't be strong enough to display. This is possible if its using vulkan.
>nintendo makes the most powerful hanheld ever
>shitposters complain about it not being powerful enough
the retard is bait people, please don't fall for it
thats from the wii u
its literally weaker than the nvidia shield portable from 2013
same chip, underclocked to 30% / 75% speed
>nintendo makes
No, nvidia makes
fucking fanboy
Holy shit! Great news.
Ok, but can someone actually explain what the hell "vulkan" means? How does it help the Switch?
It's been 5 years since Wii U released, so let me ask you this.
Has Nintendo EVER revealed the Wii U's specs? Has any outsider revealed the Wii U's specs?
How the fuck can you believe Euro games report down to the cuda core
lol
holy shit, I didn't expect you to take the goalposting this far
>nintendo produces
happy now autism lad
>Vulkan on maxwell
Oh boy dat 3% FPS boost
>I have no idea what I'm talking about
>doesn't know what vulkan is
fucking kek
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Most of the info seems to be gathered from what we see in the WiiU Dev Kits
Show me where maxwell benefits from Vulkan in an meaningful way.
The X1 won't be able to do jack shit it's the same shitty processors in the shield tv
>It means game graphics do not depend on the console itself.
Actually it does. It just means that there's gonna be less overhead (theoretically) in terms of performance.
has that been confirmed, or is it just another rumor Sup Forums takes as fact?
nintendo wont be using maxwell, is just a rumor
It's a very plausible rumour.
But comes from the same guys who said the Switch would totally use an AMD GPU.
Vulkan helps to distribute processing across multiple cores On the ARM CPU, the X1 is a maxwell chip, it doesn't benefit at all from Vulkan.
If it did DOOM would get more than a 4% boost on the 970. Instead AMD cards get a 30-40% FPS boost. Maxwell can't handle DX12 or Vulkan
>Europeans are known for being anti Nintendo
>European gaming site posts unfounded rumors
>Console war threads citing said rumor appear when Europe is most active
What do you think, user?
If it's using the X1 which is Vulkan certified then yes they are using maxwell.
Means its not maxwell my Man, the switch becomes more of a mystery every time we hear about it
>believing in in the rumour that switch uses maxwell
Called it.
Nintendo themselves joined the Khronos Group not too long ago even though OpenGL ES worked on their previous consoles. Now we know why.
>I still have no idea what I'm talking about
that's how Sup Forums works, when there's a positive nintendo rumor Sup Forums immediately says it's fake
when there's a negative nintendo rumor they make dozens of daily threads to claim it a fact and shit on nintendo
Caveman here, I'm going to shit out an example in order to understand it better.
So it is like a game has a 32X built-in so a Genesis can take advantage of the game's power to run the game.
So basically it's like the Switch uses extra components inside games, absorbs the power from the games and uses that extra power to run a game it could normally not run without this Vulkan thing?
Am I on the right track?
Console Power dont translate 2 game quality my Man, see ps4 and Wii U, my ps4 is 20x stronger than the junk hardware on my Wii U but My U has better games than my ps4
So with the confirmed information that we already have, what does this mean for the Switch as a console?
Its not maxwell that shit cant even do vulkan
Vulkan works better with shittier hardware.
If anything, it confirms the reports.
>I still don't know what im talking about
My example will be traffic in a city. In a PS4/Xbone, the programmer can only control the speed limit in streets. But with Vulcan, the programmer now has access to control both speed limits, traffic light timings, in order to reduce traffic.
im betting the switch will be able to play games on it.
oh man, video games!
stop saying that like its a good thing, user.
Because BoTW is seeing a duo-console release, which means it HAS to be downgraded for the wii u.
It's not the X1, it's confirmed it's a custom chip.
This. Nvidia said months ago that its a custom chip
>The PlayStation 4 features two graphics APIs, a low level API named GNM and a high level API named GNMX.
Stop posting any time.
Nintendo writes their own shader code/scripts, but if they do, don't count on them remaining a secret since they have to share that with the Khronos group now.
The custom part is the fact that it's downclocked.
its rumor user,that if anything vulkan has just proved fake
Got a question as I've been out of the loop the past year or so. Is Nintendo going to make a successor to the 3DS or is the Switch just that? I can't tell if the Switch is supposed to succeed the Wii U or the 3DS, or possibly both as an all-in-one system.
I ask this as a long time Pokemon fan and I can't imagine a new Pokemon game without a dual screen system (I've heard Switch can't do dual screens like the Wii U). I still have PTSD from organizing boxes without a touch screen.
all-in-one system,i am a pokemon fan, 2 i was happy with the eurogamer rumors beign because that meant the switch would be cheap,but since its confirmed for vulkan support these rumors were fake and its going 2 have good hardware and cost me a shit-ton,i just wanted 2 play pokemon man
Nintendo Switch is their main focus right now but their is still a possibility later on that they will make a direct 3DS sucessor at a much lower price point than the nintendo switch console.
Anyone know if the "Pokemon Stars" for the Switch rumor is true?
Meanwhile, PS4 Pro is Vulcan 2.2 compliant.
It's most likely a succesor to both but knowing game freak they'll just keep releasing Pokemon on the 3DS.
And I get your pain with the boxes, I wish there was an optional Joycon Grip with a screen for the Switch.
Nah, it's bullshit.
Custom chip doesn't mean it won't be using one of Nvidia's current existing architecture design.
It will either be Pascal, the current latest architecture design from Nvidia or it will be using Maxwell, the last generation architecture Nvidia uses.
The speculation is that Nvidia won't be able to get enough Pascal chips ready in time for Switch's release date, so they went with Maxwell instead.
That in itself isn't a big problem either, since Maxwell is already plenty more powerful than the piece of shit that is in the 3DS.
The downclocking rumor is more concerning. But I'll wait until the official spec is out.
Vulkan is still in 1.0, user. It has a lot of work to build on before 2.0 happens.
This one is likely to be true. Especially since pokemon is a system seller. Also a while back someone leaked some higher RES models that are going to be used for switch version