| Netyaroze said:
Especially here were alot of people have very conservative views regarding next gen power people will be shocked. A machine with similar silicon/tdp as 360/PS3 was at launch would be really strong in 2013 giving highend gamer pcs (single gpu) a run for their money.
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Nah. Not a perfect fit.
A Radeon 8870 is predicted to have a TDP of 160 watts, so I would assume they would be consuming anywhere from 130 watts of power or more just for the GPU alone.
Remember, PC graphics chips aren't like what they used to be 7 years ago where the fastest cards were barely breaking 150w TDP's, these days they are starting to smash the 300w barrier.
And the launch Xbox 360's power brick could output at most 175w, then they need to factor in capacitor aging so it's rated at more than it needs to.
If they do go with a Radeon 8870 and an 8-core CPU then I would expect a power brick twice as big as the launch Xbox's, the console will be loud and hot, putting a console in an enclosed space with limited air flow is going to be asking for high failure rates.
I personally beleive they will go with something more conservative and lower power, maybe something along the lines of a Radeon 7770/8770 class chip which is still respectible and craps all over the current GPU's in the Xbox and PS3 no contest.
As for those who are saying that an 8 core chip will be: OMGWTFBBQ EPIC PERFORMANCE! Is simply false.
You could have an 8 core Intel atom. It's still going to be slow as crap compared to a dual-core Ivy-Bridge processor.
It's not untill we get more information on the CPU that we can determine if it's going to be good or not.
On the bright side, at-least games might start using 8 threads on the PC giving my 12 threaded processor something to do for once. :)
And last as a comparison between Console vs PC graphics... A console can never match a PC. Like ever. You are stuck with a maximum resolution of only 1920x1080 for starters, most games end up being 1366x768 or lower with only 30fps.
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