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

[JEMC]

Play4Fun said:

JEMC said:

haxxiy said:
Can't see why they would do that since the manufacturing process is the same. Sea Islands is basically Northern Islands on steroids, bigger and hungrier. It'd be better to stick with the already existing, optimized architecture.

PS4 and X720 will probably come up with something on the 1.5-2 TFLOPS range and about 100-120W TDP. That's quite a leap already over current and a certain upcoming hardware. But of course, no 8000 series.

Actually Sea Islands are the optimized version of Nothern Islands.

That's the reason that allows AMD to put more transistors and make them run at a higher frequency aand at the same time keeping the same power consumption (8850) or even reducing it (8870).

Since the die size is larger, does that mean the 8800 GPUs are bigger than the 7800s?

I'm not very well versed in these things.

Again from the OP:

Die SIZE: 7870_ 212 mm^2 => 8870_ 270 mm^2

Yes, they are bigger.