Discussing PS4 hardware and manufacturing price

[drkohler]

Scoobes said:

Turkish said:

The RSX at launch was 129 dollars and the Cell was 89 dollars. The GPU RSX was based of(albeit gimped down) was the top of the line card back in 05/06 costing more then 300 dollars. Its not hard to imagine an equivalent of HD7950/HD7850 in the PS4, the latest rumours point at that way. By january 2014 AMD will be busy with the HD9000s.

What happened to HD8xxx?

HD8xxx ("Sea Islands") is supposedly the name for the refresh generation of current 28nm chips (->"Venus","Oland","Mars"), to appear sometimes in early 2013 if ever TSMC/GF get their 28nm lines really working.

The RSX never was 129 dollars. Yes I remember that stupid iSupply chart with completely wrong numbers. One reason why Sony switched from NVidia was because they supposedly were royally screwed by NVidia on that deal. I doubt there will be a 100Watt GPU in a console ever, so a reduced 78xx is the best you can look for.