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haxxiy on 01 February 2012
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Soleron said:

Not that impressive, and it completely doesn't matter since no game could afford the expense to take full advantage of 79xx's power. The limit to PC game fidelity is clearly budget now.

I mean, bad console ports will max it out, and DX11 effects (stupid levels of tesselation) layered on top of one another will use GPU resources without making it look better.

I wonder how long the high-end GPU's profit margins will last, if a <$100 GPU can run all games on the market at 1920x1200 30fps 4xAA without 3D/multi-monitor/extreme tesselation.

Also lol if anyone thinks this is going in a console, or even that a 76xx/77xx/78xx is. Power use needs to be far, far lower than the 225W this is rated at.

I assume you are referring to the TDP? It won't be that hard to dissipate the heat to be honest, cooling solutions now are far more efficient than they were somefive years ago. Of course there would be the risk of featuring a half-assed internal design who makes one in two consoles to overheat, but I think we are past such blunders.

But yeah, we probably won't... as far as AMD-powered consoles are concerned. The GK100/104 chips are going to run circles around the HD 7000 series and a chopped mid-range chip (say using only two thirds of it's clusters, still as powerful as a GTX 580, cheap due to high yields), could still power a reasonably priced PS4/X720 if it follows the hardcore route.