My gripe with all console manufacturers using AMD powered graphics ...

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fallen said:

fatslob-:O said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
I do agree but wasn't the reason for choosing AMD was cause Nvidia wanted a lot more money? Least thats what I heard...

That's one reason but another could probably be attributed to the fact that AMD delivers a nice price to performance ratio which microsoft and sony are not blind about.

Another thing is AMD is the only one who can deliver CPU and GPU IP on a single SOC.

Well, I guess Intel can, but Intel lags in the GPU area, plus is unfriendly to work with. Intel doesn't need consoles, AMD does.

To use Nvdia GPU, they would have had to use ARM CPU's. Surprisingly they did consider that pretty strongly, but ARM wasn't quite powerful enough yet.

i wouldn't want intel GPUs either but if it's one thing that I can give it credit for it would be pixel sync which allows programmable blending. I would be more interested if they offered a larrabee esque solution to the console space.