Sirius87 said:
superchunk said:
Sirius87 said:
What I don't get:
Why are you ignoring the GPU in AMDs A8-3850 APU? It's called HD 6550D and is capable of delivering 480GFlops (with fast enough memory, like e.g. GDDR5) at it's base clock (which is a lot lower than what is possible because in PCs where this APU is typically used the DDR3-RAM is too slow and so they cut the power of the GPU down; but there's no problem to apply a 20-30% higher clock to it -even 50% is possible but that may result in too low yield rates or too much power consumption).
So you have at least 480GFlops to add to the PS4s graphics power.
edit: and another thing I don't get: Why are you thinking that the Wii Us graphics card will have DP? You don't need DP for anything in gaming. That's more for scientific work. Also the bandwidth of the cards does not matter as long as it's fast enough so that the GPU does not have to wait for data. But that's not a problem in any of the graphics cards, so you might just skip that values (there really is nothing that they tell about the power of GPUs; things like Pixel (Fill) Rate or Texel Rate etc. would tell a lot more).
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1) I know it comes with teh 6550, but the rumors stated it had the 7000 series card instead.
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Well the point is that it comes with both. The rumored HD 7000 card isn't really strong so the additional GPU in the APU (that's how AMD calls there chips that combine CPU and GPU) might at least help a little bit.
There are a lot (better) other chips from AMD which don't feature a GPU, so if the GPU-Part is not planned to be used Sony would just have gone with one of them.
The integrated GPU ist THE feature of AMDs APUs so you can't just drop it from the tables.
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OR sony could have a custome APU with the 7000 series GPU instad of the 6000 series... you know because console manufactures just use off the shelf parts. That's the point of the rumor... it was custom.
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