Brad Sams: Next Gen Xbox will arrive in 2020

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CGI-Quality said:

 

• Not sure about that GPU. If we're just measuring in TF, 10 would be a safer bet (remember costs)
• DDR5 would be a huge mistake. It'll be G5X at the minimum. 24GB of system RAM is unlikely as well, considering RAM costs. I'd wager 16
• That CPU clock is pretty slow. I'd hope for at least 3000MHz. And I expect no more than 12 cores

So...

• 10 teraflop GPU (this would put it just below a 1080Ti, which is a big deal)
• 16GB G5X @ 1000MHz (speed is a big deal, here)
• 12-Core CPU @ 3000MHz (speed, again, is a big deal)

And you'll still have yourself a masterfully crafted jump over the X1X. The amount of time that has passed matters less than the cost to craft. RAM costs, in particular, are through the roof right now. They will not be doubling unless you want to pay an arm, leg, torso, etc, etc...

I expect 11 teraflop to be the worst-case scenario for the next-gen consoles. Just porting vega 56 to 7nm with a slight clock increase should result to 11TF. But hopefully AMDs next gpu architecture breaks the GCN core limitation. So we could easily see microsoft just double the gpu cores and increase the clock speed, giving us 14-16 TF.

For memory I see no reason why GDDR5x over Gddr6, it's faster and should be cheaper. There will be 3 manufactures for GDDR6 while only one for GDDR5x.

8-core zen cpu makes the most sense for CPU choice. It's just a complete waste of money going higher. An 8-core zen cpu will be about 5-6x more powerful and it's enough. The question is probably will Microsoft/sony use zen+ or zen2 and will hyperthreading be enable.