haxxiy said:
That would make it nearly twice as powerful as the X360 GPU. Seems spot on from what we've all seen, but the CPU looks like it could be a major bottleneck later on. I'm kind of worried about it. Hopefully they'll pull a F-Zero OK. I'm waiting for it for nine years now... |
Looking just a GFLOPS, the Xenos pushed 240 GFLOPS while the Radeon HD 7690M XT pushes 696 GFLOPS, which would be (almost) 3 times as powerful; but still in the range that everyone was (realistically) expecting.
If they used a GPU like this I think it would be a very solid strategy ... When the "XBox 720" and PS4 release the best they could (probably) realistically do as far as GPU performance is in the 2 TFLOPs performance range (roughly 3 times this GPU); anything more than that would result in a system that was (probably) too expensive and produced too much heat. With diminishing returns on graphics technology, even though the Wii U would be much less powerful, this would likely translate into a graphical difference similar to the PS2 to XBox rather than the Wii to HD consoles.
Certainly, it is possible that Sony and Microsoft could produce more powerful systems but I that would require them finding a way to take a GPU from a 175+ watt graphics card and make it work in a tiny console; and I think that is unlikely to happen.
