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fatslob-:O on 31 July 2017
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vivster said:

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll pick whatever is the second best choice of a mobile APU for the PS5.

A TDP of >150 watts is hardly what anyone would call 'mobile' ...

Pemalite said:

By 2020, I would be hoping to be staring down the barrel of Direct X 13 with hardware feature sets to match.

We already know that Graphics Core Next falls short in the efficiency stakes as well, Vega does try and make amends in that aspect, but it's still not going to be beating nVidia... Let alone hardware in 2020.

Should wait until 2021 to release new hardware ... (it's worthwhile to wait for Samsung to introduce their new transistor structure) 

You need more than just hardware to succeed ... 

Pemalite said:

SSD Caching might be a thing/Hybrid Drive. Use a mechanical drive for sheer storage capacity, SSD caching to bolster performance.
Hopefully they use faster optical drives, install times are so painful on consoles, it's retarded.

16GB would seem pretty inadequate next-gen in my eyes.  It's only a 30% increase over Scorpio, I would not be surprised if we see 24-32GB of total Ram next gen.

Need to remember that System Memory and Graphics Memory is shared in console land.
On the PC, 6-8GB GPU's are becoming the norm today in the mid-range with 16GB system memory backing that up.
In a few years time I would expect GPU's to trend towards 12-16GB in the mid-range.

16GB will be fine since we're still going to be stuck at 1080p (This time I don't even think it's going to be native, we're going to reconstruct to 1080p and still be stuck with 30FPS since everyones going to chase for the holy grail known as physically based global illumination)

I think bandwidth is going to be an important bottleneck going into next generation so if it's a choice between 16GB (2TB/s bandwidth) vs 32GB (1TB/s), I'd very much choose the first option as a console hardware designer since procedural texturing might become viable by then ... 

I also don't like the idea of hardware going to waste either since overengineering is the root of all evil ...