AMD Sea Islands aka 8000 series GPUs will be featured in next generation consoles

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Andrespetmonkey said:

Crono141 said:

BenVTrigger said:
And people have been trying to argue that Nextbox and PS4 wont be considerably more powerful.

Ive been saying it all along and I hold to it. Next gen systems will be extremly powerfuk

This'll be the gen after this one.  No console has ever releases with cutting edge PC tech.  If Sony and Microsoft wanted a 8870 in their consoles, they would have to start designing them today, not 2 years ago.  Look at cutting edge pc tech from 2 years ago, that'll be about the best you can expect from a console.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the GPU in the Xbox 360 is based on the (high-end at the time) X1900 XT, which was released in 2005, same year the console released. Same deal with PS3's GPU I think.

yes, you are right, PS360 use GPUs based on TOP GPUs in 2005, the problem is that people think that a component made for console has the same price as a component made for PC. Take the example of RSX, this GPU is based on G-force 7800($500 in 2005), RSX has the same number of transistors(~300 million) and the same memory(256 MB) as 7800, but each RSX cost ~$130 in 2006. The same with 360 GPU.