Nvidia Gets SALTY

[thismeintiel]

Pemalite said:

thismeintiel said:

I do find it interesting that AMD had Xbox onstage and then later announced the Radeon VII, and used it to run FH4. Wonder if this is what XB2 is getting, while PS5 gets Navi.

People thought the same about Ryzen and the Xbox One X. - Microsoft had a demo running that had a Zen CPU in it... And people automagically chalked the Xbox One X to having Zen... Obviously I argued the contrary due to cost reasons. :P

And I argued the same thing.  There are differences, though.  Ryzen launched only a few months before the X did.  No way would they have a CPU of that quality just months after it launched itself.  Like you said, the cost would have been crazy.  Forget $499, it would have been the PS3's $599 all over again.  I'm sure it would have also taken more effort from MS, making sure that every game ran correctly on a new CPU with a different architecture.

Radeon VII, on the other hand, launches next month.  That's 1 1/2 years, seeing as XB2 isn't expected until late 2020, to get costs down.  I'm guessing if it did use it, it would also be a slightly parred down version of it.  I could definitely see this being used in the top of the line XB2, while the PS5 gets Navi, which Sony is rumored to be having input in its development.