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Pemalite on 13 April 2016
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fatslob-:O said:
Pemalite said:
I wouldn't be happy if it's only a 2.5 Teraflop Radeon GPU.
Would much rather something closer to 4 Teraflop GCN 1.2 GPU.

Polaris is only months away... And 14/16nm fabrication would be quick to transition to, making a big GPU feasible... Am I hoping to much as a PC gamer?
With a bigger GPU they wouldn't need to release a successor for a longer time with some luck.

You are expecting too much, we won't have the benefit of cheaper transistors ... 

Yeah I know. :( But if Ninty takes advantage of Polaris and it's efficiency... But that is likely a long shot. AMD has stagnated for way to long in the GPU space, which is mostly compounded by slow fabrication improvements.

Miyamotoo said:

There is no real need for such a strong GPU, such a strong GPU requires an adequate CPU and RAM, and that all leads to higher price point, probably around $400, I dont think Nintendo will want to go with high price again.

No you don't.
The GPU is independent of the CPU, the GPU can also offload some processing that is typically done on the CPU, the CPU is becoming less important for gaming as time goes on, provided it has CPU performance that is "good enough" then there is nothing to worry about. (Although more is better, you need to be realistic for a cost sensitive device.)
There are also tasks a GPU can perform that is not RAM/Bandwidth intensive, which would still allow for the hardware to still shine if the rest of the specs don't match up.
One would imagine that the console would be targeting only 1080P, so it's not like you need a ton of bandwidth and video memory for that low resolution anyway.

Price point should be affordable for a Radeon of that caliber.

teigaga said:

A 4Teraflop systems would largely go to waste when the average game is optimised for only 2tf. Theres are very few games where we see a big difference in PS4 version versus PC (excluding resolution).

The best thing for Nintendo to optimise their specs around would be playing current games at 1080p, 60fps.  


Not exactly. You remember there is another platform that greatly exceeds the PS4. That is the PC. - Multiplatform games are already a fairly chunky "step up" as most console multiplats are only "high" graphics rather than the PC's "Ultra". - It would also allow for more games to hit 1080P/60fps.




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