| JEMC said:
The only AMD GPU capable of that kind of performance is Vega 64, and uses 295W. Even next year when the refresh comes using the better 12nm process, it will still be a +200W part, impossible to use on a console. We'll have to wait for Navi to get something close to that level of performance with a power consumption that makes it compatible with a console setup. And since Navi won't apper until 2019 at the earliest, I have my doubts that Sony would be able to launch a PS5 with that GPU in early 2019. And by the way, I'm not convinced that the jump from the current PS4 to an hypothetical PS5 with the power of a GTX 1080 will be enough, much less compared to a PS4Pro. Also, retail GPU prices don't matter. They are high nowadays because miners buy the cards for Etherium or whatever they farm, but we're talking about chips (APU chips to be more precise), not cards, so the only cost is the one GloFo/Samsung or TSMC will ask AMD, who will later sell them to Sony, for manufacturing them. |
That's why I'm expecting them to release later, like I stated in my first post in this thread.
"And by the way, I'm not convinced that the jump from the current PS4 to an hypothetical PS5 with the power of a GTX 1080 will be enough, much less compared to a PS4Pro."
How so? Why wouldn't a GTX 1080 equivalent be enough and enough for what?
