Kynes on 11 April 2012
| selnor said: Just also thought about this. Xbox 360 came out in 2005. The 360 has a 6 threaded 3 core PowerPC based Processor running at 3.2ghz. When the 360 was first announced PC's were still using single core processors. In fact when the 360 released only 1 or 2 PC's actually had a dual core processor. Looking at this rumour it looks perfectly feasible. Basically we have 8 core CPUS on the market. By xmas 2013 there will be 16 core CPUS here. When the 360 launched a dual core Pentium at 2.4ghz costed around $350. But yet the 3 core Xbox 360 was fantasticly priced for its power at the time. $479.99. Durango: 16 cores, 4gb DDR4 ram unified, 256 EDRAM, 1TB HDD, liquid cooling, Windows 8, Kinect 2.0, DX12 GPU/13 ready. Retail : $450 - $500. Easy. In fact if Sony don't have something similar, then it'll be disappointing. Xmas 2013 this is easily feasible. 8 core processors in 2013 Xmas will be well under $100 to consumer off the shelf. Let alone to Microsoft. 16 cores. Finally what I expected to have at that time. |
256MB EDRAM? Are you crazy? An EDRAM chip of that size is reticle limited, it would be near 600 mm2, bigger than the biggest nVidia graphic card chips. It's unfeasible at 28 or 22 nm.
