| vivster said: "NintendoForum makes the conclusion that Nintendo is working with an established chip giant to create a proprietary and specialized CPU and GPU to outperform what is currently on the market." |
Actually, it does, at least without breaking the TDP limitations of a console and thus opening another can of worms (RROD, anyone?). Intel most probably ain't interested, NVidia is doing it's own thing with the shield series and support of the Steam Machines, which leaves us with AMD. AMDs hardware hasn't evolved enough yet to make a console clearly outperforming current-gen consoles. The Puma+ cores could be cranked to a low 2.x Ghz and the GCN 1.2 to 20 CU compared to 18 in the PS4, but that's about it, really. Nothing which would look noticably better than on PS4, if any better at all.
Thus we really need to wait for ZEN CPUs (first infos seem to be quite positive) and GCN 1.3 (on which AMD already said would be a substantial improvement over previous GCN versions) and 14/16nm manufacturing processes to get a substantial leap in processing power in a console.
