| JNK said: interesting to consider: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=213819&page=1#8 |
A early 2009 RV740 chip from AMD would have run X360/PS3 graphics on the power envelope of a Nvidia Shield.
It's fairly easy to extrapolate from current trends and figure out how well hardware will run in the future anyway. At 14/16nm you can do PS4/XOne graphics with 20-30 watts to a GPU, which, even accounting for lower voltage of portable devices and improvements on the scalar architecture of stream processors, is still a bit off a Shield tablet and the like.
That leads me to theorize the ARM director is presuming TSMC or Samsung to actually release mid- to high-end 10 nm SoCs on 2017, which is a fairly unlikely´ proposition, but still, it would indeed bring a GPU to the 20W TDP we already mentioned for a gaming tablet, roughly around the same time on the lifespan of the last generation.
By the way, you are off the track with your "10x" iPhone estimates. Even stacking up Apple claims, the A9 on the 6S is 4 to 6 times better than the A6 on the iPhone 5. Either you are parroting incorrect data, cherry-picking a benchmark which was formerly bottlenecked somewhere, or deliberately claiming a lie to advance your own line or argumentation. No matter the reason, I suggest you to stop.
