Barkley said:
Woah, not a chance. 10 years MAX. I'd be very surprised if Mobile Devices aren't as powerful as a ps4 within 5 years. |
Your in for a surprise then.
Doubt you ll see a 2 Teraflop compute (graphics) capable GPU from a smart phone, in many many years.
More than 10 years.
Why? the laws of physics. I dont think AMD make bad designs for their APUs, maybe not the most power effecient cores & graphics, but overall decent (their low powered cores atleast).
ARM does better than x86 at low power... but if you scale them up in performance, they climb drastically in power usage.
ARM could make a core as strong as the one inside the PS4, but it would use more power than those currently in Smart phones.
Same is true for the GPUs, if you scale that up to work like the PS4s, you would end up useing alot more power.
I dont think 10 years will be enough time, to see smart phones as strong as PS4s.
My thinking is still 20-30 years down the road.
