Shinobi-san said:
Rumour has it that both Durango and Orbis are going to be based on the same tec. Also about the APU + 8770 rumour. While i agree those are decent specs for next gen (a tad low though), im more excited about the fact that they have moved to jaguar instead of bobcat. This opens up a range of possibilities for the GPU size of the APU alone. Which makes it possible to leave out the 8770 entirely. I would imagine this would help a lot with keeping the power usage very low. Also the shift from older amd tech to GCN is a very good sign :) Obiously this is all rumour though...but given these rumours making a lot of sense i would say this is pretty much spot on. The main thing to keep in mind though when discussing early dev kits is that they are usually only used to mimmick the final specs. Which makes the lone APU theory entirely plausible. |
No but I mean like, the cpu portion of the APU is gonna be very weak, it's only really gonna be good for A.I. The GPU on the APU should be powerful enough to handle all physics in a game plus some graphic pre-processing, essentially replacing Cell. Send the processed image to the GPU to be drawn and you'll have a very powerful setup with low cost. Problem is if Microsoft goes for a single GPU plus powerful CPU processor (The rumoured FX processor should be plenty more powerful then what's going in the APU), then physics is gonna be CPU based which the PS4 is gonna struggle with. If devs make games for the next xbox in mind it's gonna have troubles going back to the PS4 and you're going to have the problems that the Wii U has right now and the current problems between the PS3 and the 360 will remain into the next generation of hardware.
