Radeon RX Vega revealed

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Trumpstyle said:

Slap&Ride said:

AMD and NVidia in one console? Means problems with optimization. Smaller prize cuts then with all AMD products. Different architectures and hardware philosophes. PS5 Will be all AMD with low to middle range chips. Or NVidia GPU and 16 core ARM CPU ?

 

Amd cpu (ryzen) and nvidia gpu works great on PC, there is no reason why it should not work on console.

About smaller price cuts. That's why I meantion sony and microsoft will be forced to use nvidia gpu because amd is falling so far behind nvidia. Microsoft and Sony would rather use only AMD (an APU for 1 chip(cpu+gpu in 1chip)), but with nvidia they will be using discrete cpu and discrete gpu (2 chips). This will be slightly more expensive.

 

I don't believe arm cpu+nvidia gpu as APU. The Cpu is just to weak for going an ARM.

That won't happen. Console manufacturers learned from the Xbox 360 and PS3 that cooling two hot chips in one motherboard is expensive, inefficient and bond to cause problems. That's why they went with APUs for both the PS4 and the XboxOne and its iterations.

And that single chip strategy can't work with a mix of AMD and Nvidia parts because AMD can only make x86 CPUs because of a licensing deal with Intel that forbids them from selling or lending their x86 tech to others. This is why MSoft and Sony buy their APUs directly from AMD itself instead of going to TSMC or another semiconductor company with the chip design and contract them to make the parts. And you can bet everything you have that Nvidia won't let their GPU designs fall in AMD hands.

So the result is either going back to the two hot chips on a single board that both SOny and MSoft left behind for good, an all AMD APU, or an ARM powered SoC from Nvidia (because they can't make x86 chips), and from those three options, the first one seems to be the less likely of the lot.

 

OT: Vega is too power hungry and arrives a year later than it should. Hopefully, now that Ryzen has been cimpleted and launched, AMD can give more resources to the RTG and make Vega 2 or Navi a more competing product.