Wii U vs PS4 vs Xbox One FULL SPECS (January 24, 2014)

[drkohler]

JEMC said:

HoloDust said:

Well, 7970m (which is mobile, slightly downclocked version of HD 7870) is rated at 75W (though some sources state up to 100W). Now how they achieve that in mobile versions of their chips has always eluded me. But if that is correct number, CPU+GPU would give (95+75) TDP of 170W. Which I think would put it (when all other stuff is added) well within bounds of original Xbox360. But yeah, as you said, I wouldn't bet on 7970/680 equivalent inside any next-gen console.

(Numbers taken from Anandtech)

	HD 7970	HD 7900M
Stream Processors	2048	1280
Texture Units	128	80
ROPs	32	32
Core Clock	925MHz	850MHz
Memory Clock	1.375GHz (5.5GHz effective)	4.8GHz
Memory Bus Width	384-bit	256-bit
Memory	3GB GDDR5	2GB GDDR5

As you see, the cards are not exactly the same.

Forget GPUs with 384 bit paths instantly, even 256 bit paths is unlikely. Count the numbers of board layer any stable PC graphics card has - way too expensive for a console. As I have explained before, a (simplified) AMD7770 (which has a 128 bit bus) is cheap and more than powerful enough for 1080p/60Hz.