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

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Andrespetmonkey said:

Crono141 said:
You're right about the 360, though it was based on the same architecture as the x1800, not 1900xt.  The RSX is a scaled down 7600.  Also came out in 2006.

I stand corrected.  I still don't think they'll go about this generation in the same strategy though.  No one wants another 500-600 dollar home console on their hands, that only just now in their dying throes have reached a mass market price.

The PS3 was expensive not because it used a GPU from 2006, but because it used a blu-ray drive and CELL processor. If the PS3 used a similar CPU to the 360 and DVD drive it would of been just as powerful and $200 cheaper. I actually don't even need to speculate here, just look at the Xbox 360. If anything it's only marginally less powerful than the PS3, but it launched at $300-400 a year earlier.

Cell's loss was in R & D, the chip itself was pretty cheap and didn't really drive up the cost of the PS3.  The RSX was actually about 40 dollars more expensive than Cell.