Squilliam on 25 April 2011
| Slimebeast said: That's not much stronger than the current HD consoles. A Radeon HD 4850 is only 3-3.5 times faster than the GPU of the Xbox 360, and this new Nintendo console is supposed to come out in 2012... 7 years later than the X360. I think that's very poor when you consider the X360 also cost $300 when it launched. |
That Xbox 360 realistically probably would have cost $700 if it came with a realistic hardware margin. Anyway the HD 4850 is more than fast enough and it'd definately be more than 3-3.5 times faster than the Xenos chip. In practice it'd be at least 4x faster with the major difference being further increased because it'd have effectively 2-3x the RAM for graphics work depending on how the developer splits it.
Tease.
