| AbbathTheGrim said: And for how much, in the case of below and above the power of PS4? You can use gesstimations, just to provide an idea of what you believe the console's power will be. Better to ask this before the console is revealed (though it seems that Nintendo consoles tend to take some sweet time before fans get down all the console specifications, so maybe no rush but anyways). How do you think NX will fare in comparison to the PS4? Will it be below, equal or above the power of the PS4, after all the console components are exposed and the differences weighted upon? Anyways, what do you think? |
If it's a core console, then I think it will definitely be at least marginally more capable than PS4.
For one thing AMD has the next evolution over the Jaguar CPU used in PS4 and XBox One, it's called Puma and it can run at about 40% faster within the same level of power consumption, on the same 28nm process.
I'm pretty sure AMD have made a bunch of improvements to their 28nm tech since PS4 and XB1 released, which Nintendo can benefit from. Rough guesstimates NX could easily have a 40% faster CPU and GPU, with either full HBM (capable of up to 1TB/s of bandwidth), perhaps a combo of HBM and DDR4 or all GDDR5 like PS4, but with a bigger bus like 384BIT or even 512BIT, it all depends on what NX demands.
Nintendo could easily have a 2.5TFlop GPU, 40% faster CPU than PS4/XB1 (depending on clock speed), all for $250, if they decide to go with a standard controller and their system would probably be smaller than PS4 as well.
