Bet: Which next-gen console will be more powerful?

[DonFerrari]

EricHiggin said:

Otter said:

Where are people getting the $100 difference between the PS5 and SX?

Is a 20% difference in GPU $100?
What about the PS5 200% difference in SSD speed?
Or the HD rumble, touchpad, prorammable triggers and gyro in the controllers?

I feel like they will be similarly priced.

36CU's vs 52CU's means around a 35% difference in physical GPU size. If both are APU's and both are near identical other than the GPU, then PS5 APU's will be considerably cheaper because they will end up having many more dies per wafer manufactured. The next question would be due to PS5's much higher GPU clocks, how many good dies can't hit those clocks and have to be discarded? SNY would still have a cost advantage on PS5's APU, but how much exactly compared to XBSX? Hard to say right now without solid details. Until more is known about the hardware for each, it's going to be tough to nail down costs. What exactly PS5's more customized hardware costs them, what we know about the controller as you've said, and anything we don't know yet, all will make a difference. Right now based on what we know, I think we're looking at $0-$100 price difference, and that would probably require a subsidy of some amount, the bigger the difference.

Not to forget that the more CUs and bigger size more impact in the die reliability even more when being this big there is few redundancy to cut out and increase usable chips. I still think if the approach Sony took wasn't sensibly cheaper the choice would have been dumb and wouldn't make sense since it was very obvious they were pushing the frequency way higher than most would expect.