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Soundwave on 26 May 2016
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shikamaru317 said:
Soundwave said:

Yup. A 36 CU Polaris config is 6.178 TFLOPS. That's probably exactly what MS is going for. 

There's nothing fancy/unbelievable about this at all, this would just be a minor custom order of the standard mid-range AMD GPU of the future. 

Polaris tech is not supposed to be expensive, it will be in the $300 range of GPUs. 

Yeah, Polaris 10 is expected to release for less than $300 this summer. By early-mid 2017 when Xbox One II will enter production, Polaris 10 will likely have dropped to $250 or less at retail, and MS buying in bulk could likely get them for around $200. $200 or so for Polaris 10, maybe $80 for a low-mid range Zen CPU, $50 or so for some DDR4 or GDDR5, $50 for a 2 TB hard drive, $20 for a Blu-Ray drive, plus the cost of the case and the controller, that would come out to around $450 give or take. PS4K will probably be $400, so it would make sense for Xbox One II to cost $50 more since it's more powerful.

Probably less than that even, $250 at retail means likely a $50 profit at least for the GPU manufacturer, $30-$40 for the retailer. 

If it's $250 by mid next year, you're probably talking a per part cost of about $150 for MS or even lower. 

The 7870 GPU which is basically whats in a PS4/XB1 was $350 at launch in 2012 and that's basically what ended up in the PS4/X1. This would match up almost exactly. 

Polaris 10 is a no brainer for Microsoft, $399.99 launch MSRP with 6 TFLOP performance should be no big issue.