| thismeintiel said: As for power, I also expect the PS5 to utilize the new Ryzen and Vega chips. The PS4 uses a Jaguar CPU and a pared-down 7870 GPU. The Jaguar launched the year the PS4 did, while the 7870 launched 2 years before it. The Vega 10 launches this year, which would also be 2 years before the PS5. And at 12.5 Tflops, probably 11-12 Tflops in the PS5 if it too is pared-down, that would be 6x-6.5x more powerful than an OG PS4, which is a good leap for next gen. The Ryen 1700 is a significant upgrade over the Jaguar, where the Jaguar was not that big a leap over its predecessor, the Bobcat, in comparison. |
The PS4 had a GPU based more or less off the Pitcairn chip because it fit its power constraints - that is, around 125W. The PS5 won't include a 250W GPU as the Vega 10 chip is going to be. In fact, it seems the Scorpio is quite strechting it as far as 14/16 nm GPUs and their power consumption are concerned. It is going to be as huge and demanding as the original PS3 or X360 SKUs, or more.
It is almost out of question it uses the same manufacturing architecture as the Scorpio if it is going to be more powerful. Yeah, it could have a better CPU and a newer GPU architecture, but that wouldn't make it too different to the Scorpio, it would be like X360 and PS3 all over again. So, it would need at least one die shrink that has been tested and proven on the market to significantly (33% to 100%) improve on what the Scorpio offers on graphics. Maybe one will be ready by the end of 2019. Maybe it won't.
