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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

JEMC said:
Where are the vent holes on iBuyPower's Steam Machine?

Good question, but it is a proto-type, so they're probably just trying out different case designs.

I'm *really* interested in it though, that's potentially more hardware than the Playstation 4 has. (Already beats it with the GPU.)
Ultimatly, I wan't one in every room to stream games from my main PC.

Are you sure about the GPU? The 270 is more like something in between the 7850 and the 7870, with the 270X besting them.

That would put it in the same league as the PS4.

 

@zarx: That's weird, specially with those tinny feet. But I guess now we know where the PSU goes.

I'm absolutely positive.
The 270 and 270X have the exact same amount of functional units as a Radeon 7870, the only difference between all those GPU's is clock rate.
Overclocking the GPU though would be childs play, mantle would bring with it really low overheads too.
The difference is, the PS4's GPU has a much lower clock rate than them all, not to mention less available shader hardware.

It's actually intriguing how AMD didn't see fit to re-use the Radeon 7850 core in it's new line-up, the yields on the 7870 must be pretty fantastic.

I've already been corrected, but thanks.

But, and this is my personal opinion, I wouldn't go with less than a 7970/280X for a gaming PC/Steam Machine right now. I know that the 270 is faster and more powerful than the chips found in consoles, but even without Windows and with Mantle devs will still get more juice from those console chips, so I'm affraid a 270 won't be enough to keep pushing 1080p without lowering details in 3 or 4 years, whereas with a 280 that won't happen until much, much later. Maybe when talk about new consoles start again.