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HoloDust on 13 April 2016
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JEMC said:
HoloDust said:

Maybe...but compare that to 75W of 7970m (downclocked mobile 7870), what was speculated as PS4's GPU back in days, and what more or less ended up being true, and those 125W sound quite a lot, especially given it's conservative Nintendo.

Honestly, before PS4 launched, I thought, given how high TDP original PS3 and X360 had, that 8th gen consoles will go for similar TDPs, yet they are all significantly lower, so I'm sceptical now about anyone going in this proposed mid-cycle showdown for 2x-3x performance on 28nm...but hey, maybe AMD is going to make some serious money if all 3 are jumping into 14nm.

Yes, it's a lot of heat for a company that likes to make everything small and efficient.

But hey, if they had to do it, this is the best time to do it. The competition went safe and left open this door for Nintendo. Will they cross it? I really doubt it, but the option is there.

Oh, and I doubt anyone will jump to 14nm, at least this year. AMD has gone with GloFo and Samsung for their 14nm GPUs, how can they take care of the consoles too? They won't until next year with better yields and higher volume production. No, NX will be 28nm... but if it launches mid-to-late next year, PS4K may be 14nm.

Yeah, I expect NX to be on 28nm as well, that's why 7870 level config (1280:80:32) is probably best we can expect (or some GCN 1.2 equivalent)...14nm would be too expensive for their business strategy.

As for PS4K - I'm not sure if it would make any sense to launch it next year with just 2x GPU on 14nm - I would expect more like 3-4x, so they can do it again after 3-4 years again on 7nm and have PS5...but either way, fun times ahead for hardware aficionados.