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Soundwave on 27 May 2016
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Azuren said:
Soundwave said:

It's not really any different from the PS4/XB1 GPUs which were based on the 7850-7870 2012 GPUs from AMD. 

Actually the Polaris 10 is cheaper than the 7870 was when it released. Polaris 10 is only $299, 7870 was $350. And the price of RAM has also dropped from 2013. 

Here's a pro-tip ... Sony/MS which order components on the scale of *millions* for multiple years get a better price than what a 13-year-old does buying a single GPU from their corner Best Buy. $300 PC GPU being in a newly released console is nothing mind blowing, the PS4/XB1 both already did that 4 years ago.

Again, more power to you if you think you'll get that for an affordable price. I'm just saying you're probably getting one or the other, not both. 

You're getting a 6 TFLOP+ GPU in the XBox Scorpio. And it's no big deal, it's not going to cost $800, any more than the XB1/PS4 cost $800 in 2013 because they were using $350 GPU parts for their time. 

PS4 needs to stop being treated like it's some kind of super great technology, it's fucking *old* ok? By 2017 something being a factor of several times better is no big deal. It's not going to cost $800. People pushing that narrartive need to give it a rest, a Polaris 10 based GPU is no different from the PS4/XB1 using a 7870-derved GPU for their time.