drkohler on 24 January 2012
| Foetoid said: LOL there is no way the Xbox 3 will be running 7000 series ATI hardware. Its not even feesable. If development kits are going out now, then they've been working on the architecture and customising the GPU for a good 12 months, making it 6000 series at the most... |
Of course you are making the simple logic fault here that MS has simply been waiting until the 7xxx series is finished and then jumped into a customising phase. Since MS decided to go with AMD architecture again long ago (an obvious choice), the next XBox GPU is a custom design parallel to the 7xxx series develpment. Just don't expect to see a 79xx chip (>210 Watts, 350mm^2 at 28nm) or a 78xx chip (>140 Watts, 250(?)mm^2 at 28nm) in the next XBox.
