Xbox 720 in beta; AMD HD 8000M to power next-gen consoles?

[HoloDust]

fillet said:

HoloDust said:

It seems that WiiU, when fab and die size is taken into account, has between 352 and 528 GFLOPS (320 to 480 shaders@550MHz). Initial NextBox rumours were some 6x as 360, later rumours are 8x 360, which would be 1440 and 1920 GFLOPS respectively, if they took GFLOPS as comparison (that would be 7770 GHz Edition and 7870/7970m@750).

Power constraints would mean that a 7950/7970 derevative would be unlikely. But then the Xbox 360 was based on the following generation's GPU from ATI which hadn't been released at the time.

Oh, I agree, max I can see fit into NextBox from 7xxx gen is 7970m (which is mobile, downclocked 7870, not Tahiti). But, if those figures for 88xx desktop parts are true, 130W for 8850, card with 1536:96:32 config, I wonder what TDP its mobile part would have (for example, 7870 is 175W card, and its mobile version, 7970m, is rated at 75-90W, depending on the source).

But, honestly, I somehow doubt GCN2 is that more effective - recently released 7870LE, which should probably be called 7930, cause it's based on Tahiti, has TDP of 185W and exact same config that supposed 8850 has - 1536:96:32, which supposedly has TDP of 130W. Maybe AMD pulled some miracle, but I guess we'll have to wait bit more and see if those leaks were true.