What would make you buy a Scorpio at launch?

[Pemalite]

tripenfall said:

Pemalite said:

By the time Playstation 5 launches, GDDR5/GDDR5X, Polaris, Vega, Zen... Will all be old news and will all be replaced by something better, faster, more efficient.

If you want a glimpse of "next gen" take a look at nVidia's GV100 core. It's nuts. You could be looking at upwards of 10x the capabilities of Scorpio if not more at 4k. It's a real powerhouse at 21.1 Billion transistors and an 815mm2 die size on a 12nm node (Likely 14nm FEOL or BEOL. Haven't checked.)

I'll check it out.

You surely don't expect anything of that power in a console in 2-3 years though? 

I don't expect an exact clone of that chip in a console. Ever. It's way to big and expensive to manufacture.

But smaller, more efficient chips that can achieve similar results should be doable in 2-3 years, especially as we are transitioning to smaller processes during that time.

GDDR6 should be the defacto standard for high-end GPU's in 2-3 years time, it will be cheaper than HBM2... And even provide more bandwidth than Vega's implementation of HBM2. - This is what Next-gen consoles will use.

Zen+ will be well and truly on the market and infiltrated both the high-end and low-end, should be faster and more efficient than current Zen chips.

Navi will be on the market with it's refined NCU architecture and we could even be looking at it's replacement by then.
Graphics Core Next is old, it's inefficient, it's slow, it's powerhungry. - It's what the Xbox One, Xbox Scorpio, Playstation 4 and Playstation 4 Pro are based around.