LordOfChaos
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But the point of using an architecture like Nvidia's is that there's no difference between "mobile graphics" and "console graphics" in terms of hardware. In both cases there are a handful of ARM cores and some number of Pascal SMs, ROPs, etc., and the reason that one is considered a handheld SoC and the other is considered a home console SoC is down to the fact that the former has much lower clock speeds to keep power draw in the low single digits, and the latter is clocked much higher because it can be actively cooled and battery consumption isn't a concern. There's no point in releasing an Apple TV style passively cooled microconsole when you could slap a cheap heatsink and fan on there and easily double or triple the performance.
I want Apple to slap a heatsink and fan on the A9 for the Apple TV
When I saw it was larger I got all hyped, but it looks like it's a bog standard A8 (apart from having 2GB RAM).
Imagine the Apple TV on the X series though...A9X this year, A10X next...It would creep up on the base consoles alarmingly fast.