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Forums - Gaming Discussion - IF the rumors were true AND the Ps4 were to use HD 7670 and the Nextbox were to use HD 6670. Who will come out on top?

Pemalite on 18 January 2013
raygun said:
Your forgetting something, the PS4 will be using an A10 apu and the 7670 gpu. The A10 contains a 4 core cpu PLUS a gpu on one chip, which will be able to work together with the 7670, in effect it will have 2 graphics cards.


2x low-end cards doesn't make a high-end one.
2x Radeon 6670/7670 class GPU's would still be slower than a Radeon 7770 GHZ Edition on the Cat 13.1 drivers and the 7770 is regarded as pretty much low-end performance for 1080P gaming in the PC space.

Besides, each 6670 GPU would be using up about 715~ Million transisters where-as the single Radeon 7770 would be sitting at 1500~ Million transisters.
Then you need extra interconnects, better and more expensive cooling and other goofiddles to make it work.
So in the end not only would it make the graphics subsystem more difficult to program for, it would be slower (Massively so when Developers use Tessellation and Asymmetric crossfire is hardly 100% efficient.), consume more power, produce more heat and probably end up more expensive than a single Radeon 7770.

I can't be the only one who doesn't see the sense in them going with dual low-end chips in the next generation consoles?



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raygun on 18 January 2013
Pemalite said:
raygun said:
Your forgetting something, the PS4 will be using an A10 apu and the 7670 gpu. The A10 contains a 4 core cpu PLUS a gpu on one chip, which will be able to work together with the 7670, in effect it will have 2 graphics cards.


2x low-end cards doesn't make a high-end one.
2x Radeon 6670/7670 class GPU's would still be slower than a Radeon 7770 GHZ Edition on the Cat 13.1 drivers and the 7770 is regarded as pretty much low-end performance for 1080P gaming in the PC space.

Besides, each 6670 GPU would be using up about 715~ Million transisters where-as the single Radeon 7770 would be sitting at 1500~ Million transisters.
Then you need extra interconnects, better and more expensive cooling and other goofiddles to make it work.
So in the end not only would it make the graphics subsystem more difficult to program for, it would be slower (Massively so when Developers use Tessellation and Asymmetric crossfire is hardly 100% efficient.), consume more power, produce more heat and probably end up more expensive than a single Radeon 7770.

I can't be the only one who doesn't see the sense in them going with dual low-end chips in the next generation consoles?

Well, the latest 'rumors' say that Orbis will have 1 GPU instead of the earlier rumored 2, but now they are saying it will be a 8 core cpu! The memory will be ddr5, which is very fast. What's interesting is the mysterious 'gpu like compute module' which is added to the hardware. Could this be an inclusion of a cell processor for PS3 compatability??? http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-orbis-unmasked-what-to-expect-from-next-gen-console