scrapking said:
Ultimately we don't know what the Scorpio will use. Have there even been any credible leaks yet? |
There is no leak of what actually is inside the Scorpio. There is this mockup of a board floating around that has 12GB gddr5 and a SoC but this probably is complete fiction.
I'm pretty sure that MS has absolutely nothing to show at this time. All this "6TF min powaaah" yelling from every rooftop is just pr to curb stomp Sony's Neo. Granted they can send "DevUnits" with these specs to people, but these are just PCs that mock the target specs. In the AMD timeline of events, giving out the Zen structure to third parties does not happen until way into 2017. If that timeline is true I do not see a late 2017 Scorpio having a Zen cpu. But as usual, money talks so who knows?
Basically a SoC in a console cannot be cooled (economically) once it passes maybe 140W(?), An 8core Zen supposedly draws aruond 90W, a 6TF AMD gpu around 120W so that just douesn't compute at this time.
