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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Xbox 720 in beta; AMD HD 8000M to power next-gen consoles?

HoloDust said:
dahuman said:
HoloDust said:
dahuman said:

power=/=performance, please update your original post.


I think it's pretty much obvious when you see "powerful" that it doesn't have anything to do with card's TDP ;)


You can repalce an engine with twice the horse power in a car but that won't make it go twice as fast depending on how much the laws of physics or other factors will work against it after a certain level, it's the same idea. If you want to be absolutely correct and certain about posting anything tech related, you want to be precise with your words so people won't nitpick like I'm doing now.


Yeah, I see you decided to nitpick (for whatever reason), but when it's talked about graphics cards and CPUs it's common to say something like "twice as powerful", and everybody will understand (except, obviously, for those who want to nitpick).

That said, 7970 is 3x as powerful as 7870m.


You prolly know as well as I do that power isn't everything in real life performance :P had you said performance, I'd have said nothing to start with and say you are correct.



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So before Etho comes back and confuses anybody else, look at the picture below:

2nd generation of products using GCN architecture, not GCN V.2.0 or anything like that, my goodness.



dahuman said:

So before Etho comes back and confuses anybody else, look at the picture below:

2nd generation of products using GCN architecture, not GCN V.2.0 or anything like that, my goodness.


Yup, so now it's 2 pairs of pants.



I love how small gaf chit chat spreads like wildfire on other sites lol.



The Xbox Next GPU is rumoured to be heavily customised. I don't think you could really compare these chips with console or APU variants and the slide only says that AMD technology is inside consoles not that particular technology is inside the consoles.



Tease.

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Turkish said:
I love how small gaf chit chat spreads like wildfire on other sites lol.


Strange, didn't you make a thread about how underpowered the Wii U was based on 1 person's comments?



fillet said:
Turkish said:
I love how small gaf chit chat spreads like wildfire on other sites lol.


Strange, didn't you make a thread about how underpowered the Wii U was based on 1 person's comments?


I really dislike to ask where, can you please be more specific and get right to the point so we don't have to deal with useless discussions.



dahuman said:

So before Etho comes back and confuses anybody else, look at the picture below:

2nd generation of products using GCN architecture, not GCN V.2.0 or anything like that, my goodness.

I checked now... there M parts are GNC 1 yet... foolish... the new features to come in GNC 2 is just for the desktop 8000 series.



ethomaz said:
dahuman said:

So before Etho comes back and confuses anybody else, look at the picture below:

 

2nd generation of products using GCN architecture, not GCN V.2.0 or anything like that, my goodness.

I checked now... there M parts are GNC 1 yet... foolish... the new features to come in GNC 2 is just for the desktop 8000 series.

correct



I have argued many times that it is more likely that Nintendo and/or Microsoft would have GPUs with similar performance to a laptop GPU than something from the desktop side of things; and it is likely that Nintendo has a GPU between 500 GFLOPs and 750 GFLOPs of processing power, while it is likely Microsoft will have a GPU with between 1TFLOP and 2TFLOPs of processing power.

The actual chip Microsoft chooses will largely depend on what price range they want to target at release and whether they want to bundle Kinect (or something) with the system. If they're targeting $300 unbundled I could see a 1TFLOP GPU, and if they're targeting $500 bundled I cold see a 2TFLOP GPU.