| JEMC said: Now, knowing both things, that the NX design was decided in 2014 and that Nintendo doesn't take risks with the hardware, tell me how likely is that Nintendo goes for a Zen based CPU (a processor that still hasn't launched to the market and that has been delayed several times) and an Artic Islands, now Polaris, GPU? Because I'd say that the chances of that are zero, which is the point I made with Pemalite. Does it mean that NX will be underpowered? Not really. If we're talking about a home console they can still use faster Jaguar processors than those used in the PS4/X1 or even an Excavator based quad core like the one found inside their Carrizo APUs and a Tonga XT GPU to outmatch if not simply murder the competition. |
Well. Zen and Polaris have taken years of designing, they were taped out 12 months ago, taped-out means that 99% of the hard work has been done. I.E It is a fully working chip.
So it's not hard to imagine it being a possibility, is it likely to happen? Probably not, history tells us that it is unlikely. - I just dislike *all* of AMD"s CPU's currently, none should be used in 2016 in any device, lol.
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