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Slimebeast on 13 February 2012
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Play4Fun said:
Slimebeast said:
Play4Fun said:
You know what a 12x jump means? A huge, hot console that costs a lot!

You know how much power it takes to run Samaritan at 720p? 4.4 x 360 power!

You know what that means? If Wii U is 3x -5x 360 it can get next gen ports

What are you even basing this 12x o 16x jump on ? Nothing realistic, that's what.

I said the chance for a 16x increase for the PS4 over the X360 was slim (likely not going to happen) but if it did I assume it would be based on next year's Radeon chip, the 8000-series.

Now what we do know is that MS is basing its Nextbox GPU on the Radeon 7970 which is 10 times faster than the Radeon X1900 which the X360 was based on.

So if Sony with the PS4 would wait an extra year compared to MS they could base their GPU on a one year fresher Radeon GPU generation which if lucky could be 60% faster than the Radeon 7000-series.

From what we know? Last time I checked, there was no  rumour of 720 being based on a 7970. I do remember a rumour being based on the 7000 series though. That series comes with a wide range of GPUs. I also remember a rumour that  current 720 kits were 6x 360 and MS were targetting 8x.

With the 7000 series rumour, a realistic person would assume one of the mid-end GPUs, like a 7770/7850 . A person with an unrealistic expectation would just assume the highest end card while ignoring price , size and power consumption.

Most likley they will copy what they did last time with the X360 which was based on the then released and most powerful GPU, the Radeon X1900, and made it custom built even getting some technology from the then unreleased 2600-series. So this time you will have a near max Radeon 7970, custom built with some nice features from the future 8000-series.