Weird question. How can anybody’s guessing of what the specs will be really matter?? I don’t get it.

8 core cpu hopefully at 3.0ghz
16gb ram is more than sufficient
The gpu should be equivalent to a 1060 or rx580
1tb hdd

But I'd prefer them to ditch off the shelf parts and go for unique architecture like the ps3 and ps3

Thanks. Now about them going for the PS4pro double..... I think that is strategically impossible. Whatever the case here, we are looking at at least double the PS4pro or XB1X. Now it would just be a flat out bad business decision to double the PS4pro when we all know that MS will at the very least double the XB1X. And if we use your calculations, we are talking about at leat 9.5TF vs 13.6TF. Thats almost 3TF worth of muscle being left on the table. That would be marketing and design suicide for sony. 

I do agree with you though that 15TF is a little high, I mean there are a number of factors that could prevent them from pushing their designs that far... reliability and longevity being two of the most important amongst them. So its possible that even if the hardware can hit 15TF, the could settle for something like 12-13TF.

But this comes down to what MS is gonna do. Neither of them is going to let the other have any meaningful performance advantage out of the gate this time around. MS knows what it cost them this gen, sony knows how it favored them. 

That will make 3rd party developers very unhappy, especially the very small indie studios. It will also make the PS5 way more expensive.

10 TB of memory with a 8K/120FPS output on the new round and curved 3D 12K TVs if you use the new HDMI-44X.2 GPU cable. And a 15" VR/HD/Tri-fold screen will snap off the top to take with you. It will fold out around your head, resting on your shoulders. You will be able to bake PopTarts in the "SNAX' slot, but not bagels. That will come in '26 with the PS5.5Semi-Pro units selling for $999. But no more BluRay player...

Although I agree with you. I disagree with this particular statement.



https://www.anandtech.com/show/11992/the-xbox-one-x-review/6

And it annoys me to no end.

You are starting to sound more like me as time goes on. - When did that happen?

Or. They could simply not and use some extra performance to... I dunno. Let games run better? Xbox does it.

If the GPU ISA has deviated significantly from the GCN chip in the Playstation 4, they can use the power of abstraction to negate any compatibility issues.

Ooops, yes you are right. Didn't feel right when i typed it either..... I think what i was thinking is that its more efficient, and not that it draws less power.

Lol@sounding like you..... maybe we always sounded alike but this is just the first time we are on the same side of a discussion.

The base price is still $400 and that's the price that it is in most stores right now, including Amazon. The only reason the sales ticked up was because of the price drop for the holidays. 

If it's a chose between $400 console and the $299 1 TB version, most new buyers will go for the latter every time.

I'm not saying they'll launch right then. I'm just saying there's zero chance for it to be announced before the PS4 hits 100 million. It's sales suicide and it's pointless with the console at least being a year or 2 away.

And never said you were one of the silly ones saying that, but man was it hilarious watching them grasp for straws once the PS4 started selling like hotcakes. The most common excuse was "well, this is just the early adopters!" 74 million consoles later and they're nowhere to be found.

Classic.

Just for clarifying with Intrinsic.

 In gaming when most people speaks about flops comparing gaming gpus, a flop is a 32 bit single precision floating point operation. And that´s now, 10 years ago and in the future, heheh. Teraflops doesn´t change, they are a measure, like meters, or grams. Hehehe yes, it´s annoying to think about changing Tf. Like Pemalite says. A teraflop is 1000 billons of flops operations. If you have to do 3,2 x 2,2. It is a flop operation. If you you have to do 3 x 2 is an integer operation. 

Most companies use Tf for marketing. Switch was marketed as a 1 Teraflops machine, but that was misguided, cause they were using 16 bit precision numbers for calculating the number of operations. While it is correct mathematically, if everybody compares 32 bit numbers, speaking about 16 bit performance without saying that they are using other bit chain is kind of cheating. 

When comparing Scientific computing or high performance computing (HPC). Computers consisting in hundred of thousands of cores, or even millons they usually talk about performance with double precision 64 bit operations.

Now on the other subject. Of course they can. Actually in the beggining they dissabled half ps4 GPU to mantain compatibility, but then they add ps4 pro mode, and recently supersampling for running games better in 1080p screens on the pro. So yes, they have plenty of choises if they have enough Tf. 

Indeed it is more efficient.
Hence why the Xbox One X actually does consume less power than the base Xbox One in a multitude of scenarios. (I.E. Blu-ray playback, instant on, energy saving etc'.)

A large chunk of that is attributed to the much more efficient power supply, which means less energy is wasted.

Well. Let's wait and see.

For me, I don't really care if a console sells 10 units of 10 million or 100 million. As long as it meets my needs/wants/desires. - Which thankfully usually often lines up with fairly healthy sales. (I.E. More consoles sold, more financial incentive for more games/features.)

I'm one of the "rare" few who isn't aligned with any particular console brand though.

For christ sake.

Teraflops is a theoretical number. It's calculated by clockrate * instructions per clock * pipes/cores.
It's often an un-achievable ceiling in the real world.

People need to stop abusing the flops. It's NOT the be-all, end-all.

That sounds like allot of work for something so pointless. Just provide all the power all time, no need for silly modes if they abstract the hardware sufficiently.

It's because it is an ARM mobile part. Most non-x86 mobile devices emphasis 16-bit precision for performance and battery life reasons. Switch capitalizes on that.

People should always take the claims that any company makes about their hardware or their competitors hardware with a grain of salt, go to an unbiased source that has no financial incentive to stretch the truth instead.
Anandtech is a good outlet for that.