Saw this over on Gaf

Sea Islands will spend better part of the year without the real competitor, as NVIDIA will only offer refreshed Kepler until Maxwell comes along. Also worth mentioning is that SI is the architecture chosen to be expanded into high-performance consoles, thus we should see quite interesting announcements regarding to vast compute and graphics capabilities carrying the next generation of console games. Bear in mind that engines such as Unreal Engine 4 do not work on contemporary consoles, while PC hardware can easily churn out those pixels in ultra-high details.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-next...#ixzz272QHUSjq

Dragon Ball nomenclature comparing to Wii U please

The 8850 seems awesome for next-gen, only $200 (much less for console manufacturers ofcourse).

What I don't get is why the author thinks these will be in next gen systems? Anyone care to explain in a way I'd understand?

"SI is the architecture chosen to be expanded into high-performance"

says who?

Btw your link  = file not found

hmm.. they might use the architecture, but at lower clock speeds as the TDP of 130W is too much for a console

and at lower clocks or less active texture units/stream processors they might increase the yield enough to make it worthwhile for console makers (lower costs/higher quantities available)

Hmm a decent 8 series GPU in next-gen consoles would be sweet.

It's...!!

.. Not quite 9000. In fact, it's only 8/9ths of 9000, as you can see in the title of this thread.

Those performance gains seems a bit too good to be true...not to mention the insanely low price....i call bullshit :/

This would be very good indeed. I'd love to see an APU + 8850 in one of the consoles working in crossfire.

130W GPUs don't go well with consoles.

If they do though, expect PS3-like launch pricing.