Pemalite said:
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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I said 88xx which could refer to 8850 the 7850 had 130 Watt tdp and 1.7 tflop. The 7970m had 100 Watt tdp and 2.1 tflop basically a streamlined downclocked 7870 which had 175 watt and 2.5 tflop.
A customized 8870 is absolutely possible. MS or Sony will not just use off the shelf Gpus with features they don't even need for games.
And to the Cpu well Its not like consoles need super powerful versatile and fast cpus aslong as its no bottleneck for the GPU and MS could go IBM+AMD or Steamroller we don't know that. I am expecting that a GTX 680 and I7 will have their work cut out for them with PS4/720 titles in 3-4 years. Games will start to look dramatically better on Consoles and even PC wil notice that. No 120 fps for console games anymore.
Until recently people still believed that the graphics race is over and PS4/720 will be close to Wii U. But PC is like 10x Wii U already. PS4/720 will be more like the PC and even with under enthusiast Hardware from 2013, due to Hardware and Software optimizations, on eye level with highend PCs (single Gpu) from 2013 regarding the graphics i.e effects models lighting physics scale and an vastly improved IQ over this gen and show things that weren't done on PC before from time to time. (Not taking into account IQ where PC will always be in a league of its own).
