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Soundwave on 27 May 2016
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Azuren said:
Bryank75 said:

Randal Thor was on my buddies podcast other night and said the aim is 6Tflops with room to go up to 8 if Sony "get cute", he is friends with Phil so he probably knows best...

"Aim" means they haven't done anything yet, and unless they're shooting for a $800+ console, 6tf isn't feasible. No matter how reliable the source is.

This is wrong and has been shown to be wrong several times. 

The Polaris 10 is a 32 CU part that is a mid-budget GPU for $299.99 retail this year. It clocks in at 5.5 TFLOP. This is actually cheaper than the 7870 GPU that the PS4 is based on was in 2012 when it released a year ahead of the PS4/XB1 (that cost $350 at the time). 

Give the Polaris 10 a minor bump to 36 CUs and you get 6 TFLOPS. Not a big deal. 

There's no reason for a console with a Polaris 10 style GPU to cost $800 or even close. Try half that. 

6 TFLOPS is nothing amazing. PS4 @ 1.8 TFLOPS is old as shit now, people need to realize that, by fall 2017 that'll be 4 four years old which is an eternity in tech cycles.