AMD Hawaii GPU R9-290X ‘Volcanic Islands’ PCB Leaked – 512-Bit Interface and Massive Die Size?

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Shinobi-san said:

dahuman said:

Shinobi-san said:
Wow. If AMD brings Titan level power to the $500 range...then that's just amazing.

Imagine what we will be getting in the mid-high range....

Anyone else disappointed that consoles have decided to settle on around the ~2tflp performance range? That's already quite far behind top of the range GPU's...imagine the gap in 2 years.

There's gonna be a lot of wasted power in some PC's...

I'm hoping we will see the days where it becomes commercially viable to build games specifically for high end PC's. Either that or consoles iterate faster through gens!

Well, if you remember my posts of the spec announcements earlier this year, I think I wasn't very good at hiding my dissapointment right off the bat lol. I'm over it though, I'm primarily PC anyways.

I honestly thought we'd be seeing next gen gpu's in the consoles, something like a 8870 or 9870?

Feels like the consoles are 1-2tflps of power short imo. And then to add to that they are almost fully reliant on the GPU 

If you take into account all the process node shrinks and how prone to error the silicon is when attempting photolithography I'd be willing to bet the fastest GPU achieveable isn't going to be more powerful than the PS4 by a factor of 8.

Edit: To reach the smallest process node your going to have to wait 10 years.