Opinions on Neo Vs Scorpio? Surely, MS can't meet tech costs by next year for 4k and VR support....

[Scisca]

TallSilhouette said:

Scisca said:
Guys, the GPU Scorpio is bound to have is $199 at retail now!! In 18 months it's going to be dirst cheap for MS buying in bulk. Mark my words, they saw with Xbone that $499 is too much and they'll easily hit $399.
8 Core Zen processor, probably the full version of Polaris 10 (with 40 CUs and 2560 SPs), aroung 12 GB of RAM - all forming a perfect APU and boom. You have a monster for $399. Maximum $449.

Topping 6tflops in a console is expected to require a Vega gpu (why it's still so far out), not Polaris and not the 480, whatever it's capable of with a good desktop setup. Pairing that with a Zen cpu would be seriously costly and they would have bragged about it too if they were using it. Really doubt we'll see it debut at $450 or lower unless they want to eat a big loss.

Why? RX 480 sits at aroung 5.5 - 5.6 tflops, the full chip with 40 CUs and 2560 SPs (RX 480 has 36 and 2304) should hit 6 tflops nicely without the need of Vega. Obviously, I'm not discounting the possibility of Vega, but I don't think they have to go that far. It's a console after all, it will get better perfomance in games than RX 480 gets in a PC.