| crissindahouse said: i don't know how much watt a card with 70% of the 7970 will need second half of 2013 (i think a 7950 could be at 180 watt or so at max in one and a half year) but why are the costs too high? you said th 360 gpu is like a x1800 xl. this card did cost 450 euro in november 2005 in germany. the 7970 does cost i believe 550 euro atm. so the card costs 100 euro more now. a card with 70% of the power would cost much less now and even more less in 2013. a 7950 does cost ~450 euro atm and has more than 70% of the 7970s power. which means the gpu would cost microsoft less for the nextbox. ok we don't know anything about the console (tablet or not for example) but only speaking about the gpu price they could easily use such a card and put a lot more money for better cooling and so on without higher costs than 2005. |
Do you really think MS wants to do a 3rd console with billions in losses the whole generation? And this only addresses one of the issues I raised. 180 watts just for the GPU? The entire X360 was 180 watts at launch - GPU just 70 of those watts.. Try putting a 180 watt GPU in a HTPC cabinet and still listen to your movies (read: cooling solution would be very loud). Remember, the entire cooling solution was tryign to dissipate 180 watts on the X360. If the Next X GPU is 180 watts itself, expect the entire system to be about 250-300 watts. Just how large of a power brick do you want?
And all that is based on the premise the 7950 could drop from 180 watts by next year. First, unless the GPU itself is given a die shrink, it will not drop to 180 watts. AMD doesn't die shrink high end retail GPU's. It took MS, IBM and AMD dropping the CPU, GPU, RAM and eventually going full on SOC to get from 180 watts to 115 watts today and those die shrinks went from 90 nm to 45 nm. The HD 7950 will not receive a die shrink from 28 nm to 11 nm in 1.5 years.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
