| disolitude said:
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Design of the PS4 gpu probably started 3-5 years ago. There was no gcn and no 8xxxx around at that time. The coolest (for a price) thing was a 7850-type gpu structure and that was the starting point for the Sony engineers. The question for Sony was essentially do we wait for AMD/NVidia to build a generic off-the-shelf gpu that would fit our bill, or do we change something existing to fit the bill of what we want. Apparently they went the second road, and if you remember, there was a recent comment by amd to the extent that "the PS4 gpu has many of the intrinsics of our new emnedded gpu line (gcn2)". So it seems amd and Sony engineers somewhat converged in their ideas during the past years...
