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thismeintiel on 31 July 2017
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Pemalite said:

Also. AMD's Draw Stream Binning Rasterizer -was- confirmed to be disabled by AMD.

So all those old Vega FE benchmarks are not an accurate representation of performance to expect out of consumer Vega. - It is also a massive pie in the face to a few tech outlets/youtubers who stated Vega FE performance would be the same to the consumer variant.

We should see an uptick in performance. Of course, like most things that will vary depending on game.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11680/radeon-rx-vega-unveiled-amd-announecs-499-rx-vega-64-399-rx-vega-56-launching-in-august

thismeintiel said:
I'm going to guess the Vega 64 is what the PS5 is going to be rocking. Of course, I'm going to guess it'll be somewhat customized with a few advancements in tech made along the way. So, ~6.5X-7X more powerful than the OG PS4 and 3X more powerful than the Pro. Add in a much better Zen or Zen+ CPU and 16GB of RAM. I'd say that's good enough for a generation leap.

Eww. I hope not. It will be old and outdated by then. Vega should be more than 6.5-7x more powerful than the PS4.

As was the GPU that the PS4 used.  It needs to be if it's going to be in a $399 box.  To make the PS5 with the specs I'm expecting, a Vega 64, at least a Ryzen 1700, and 16GB GDDR6 (this would have to actually be GDDR5x if you built it now), would cost ~$900 for just those parts.  Granted you could knock maybe $150-$200 off for what Sony would pay for buying in bulk, but after all costs are considered, you would still be looking at a best case launch price of $699.  No one is paying that much for a console, as history continues to show us time and time, again.  Give it another two years and all those prices will be at least cut in half.

And I'm sure it'll be more powerful than that range I gave, but I'm just comparing Tflops to Tflops.  I realize it isn't going to be exactly like for like, but that's what most people are going to be looking at when the numbers are announced.  But, that makes it a little bit better of a generational leap.