Pemalite said:
The E6760 rumor should be taken with a grain of salt.
For one... That means it is based on the Turks/Turks XT core... Which means it has a semi-decent geometry engine.
Unfortunately the games have thus far shown it not to be the case, which lends credability to it being a GPU derived from an inferior older generation.
Carrizo would be a good choice, it is highly efficient (For an AMD cpu), cheap and "good enough".
It's still a low-end CPU, would be nice if a console manufacturer would take CPU performance seriously for once.
But there is something better that AMD can offer. Zen.
Due for release later this year, would offer significantly better performance and be energy efficient. (If built at 14nm.)
Should be at a stage where it could be used in designs such as a low-end/mid-range SoC for consoles like the NX, that would give it a leg-up on the Xbox One and Playstation 4, in tasks that can take advantage of the CPU anyway.
GPU's have also come a long way... Polaris (Aka. The next generation of AMD GPU's) will also be ready this year, should be more efficient than the GPU's in the Xbox One and Playstation 4.
All in all, Nintendo could build a console faster than the PS4 without much hassle and still come in at the same cost if they play their cards right, just being "almost" as fast as it's competitor which is only half as fast is probably not going to cut the mustard.
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That E6760 (downclocked 6570) rumour is from way before WiiU launched, that turned out to be just that, rumour. I remember how pissed at Nintendo some people were even with that sort of performance which is quite a bit higher than what WiiU actually seems to have, but still way less than what was original rumour - 4850 level GPU, so around 1TFLOPS.
I honestly have no idea what they'll do with NX, I hope it's something that's at least in the same ballpark as X1/PS4 and then launch NX2 in 2020 again in the same ballpark as NextBox/PS5.
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