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A great example is when the Pro/Neo first leaked, people were bitching how the base PS4 is powerful enough to last the whole gen and that iterative models were not necessary and shouldn't even exist in the console space. 

 

Then you had people bitching that the X wasn't delayed an extra 6 months to have Ryzen CPU. 

 

All of a sudden we went from 12tflops minimum to people discussing 8tflop next gen consoles as viable. Once again proving they don't know what the fuck they want. 

 

Then you have the bitter X crowd that are in denial that they paid 500 dollars for a system way past mid gen phase, and want the gen to last till 2025 or something. And MS is investing all their software resources into next gen anyways, non of their bought studios are making current gen games. 

 

The reality is that hardware releases should be based on viable market strategies, and trivial hardware differences should play a secondary role. There is ALWAYS better hardware over the hill, and in an age of scalability and iterative models, frankly non of this shit even matters. 

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Yeah they're competent in completely different things, in terms of 3D rendering AMD's cards fall behind in terms of floating point but their mathematical computing capability is off the charts. 

Lol I’m just saying Vega 64 is like the worst offender when it comes to Teraflop and real world performance.  Since you were comparing Vega 64 to a 1080 I believe 

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31 minutes ago, Team 2019 said:

No. It's just that everyone's opinion on hardware is beyond inconsistent. Mine is. :reg:

People can say what they want... it's all just speculation.  What people WANT isn't changing, but what they are willing to accept will always change.. because that's just the way it is.

 

That said... people need to remember that a 8TF Navi =/= 8TF Polaris or Vega..  We don't know enough about the architecture to say any different.  There's so much more to it now than just TFlops numbers.  The next machines are going to be little beasts... you can rest easy about that.  Finally consoles will have great CPUs to go along with way more compute power, as well as new improvements and methods of rendering pixels...

 

I think these new consoles will be much better balanced and well rounded than the last gen.  It's going to be :whew: 

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8 hours ago, Remij_ said:

People can say what they want... it's all just speculation.  What people WANT isn't changing, but what they are willing to accept will always change.. because that's just the way it is.

 

That said... people need to remember that a 8TF Navi =/= 8TF Polaris or Vega..  We don't know enough about the architecture to say any different.  There's so much more to it now than just TFlops numbers.  The next machines are going to be little beasts... you can rest easy about that.  Finally consoles will have great CPUs to go along with way more compute power, as well as new improvements and methods of rendering pixels...

 

I think these new consoles will be much better balanced and well rounded than the last gen.  It's going to be :whew: 

To be fair Dynamite wants what is basically a workstation GPU and memory setup in a freaking casual console box. 

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About price, mainstream GPU prices are probably not applicable. 

 

It seems MS and Sony will use a Navi Lite that's probably cheaper, and easier to manufacture. Maybe even designed for faster price declines in the future than their standard counter parts. Heavily customised of course. 

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Not sure if this is true at all, or reliable. But here. Not the Tflop calculation is with a base clock.

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-next.c3339

 

FP32 (float) performance 8,192 GFLOPS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Memory Size 8 GB Memory Type GDDR6 Memory Bus 256 bit Bandwidth 448.0 GB/
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18 minutes ago, Team 2019 said:

Not sure if this is true at all, or reliable. But here. Not the Tflop calculation is with a base clock.

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-next.c3339

 

FP32 (float) performance 8,192 GFLOPS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Memory Size 8 GB Memory Type GDDR6 Memory Bus 256 bit Bandwidth 448.0 GB/

1Ghz seems low as fuck

 

And are the rumors that Navi would transition away from the 64 CU limit already dead? 

 

 

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6 minutes ago, DynamiteCop! said:

Are you not getting worried about Sony releasing an underpowered pos?

Insiders have said over 10tflops, most importantly Matt. Which is what expected, what would be more amazing if they can hit $400 in 2019-March 2020 which is the absolute latest it can launch. That's most important especially with we known bandwidth upgrades and game changing Zen 2 based Ryzen models.

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3 minutes ago, Team 2019 said:

From a production point of view you're better increasing the number of CUs over the clock speed. This is a universally accepted truth. But don't count it.

Not necessarily, look what Microsoft was able to accomplish with the X. Sure it has four more CU's than the Pro however it also has a frequency which is 261Mhz (29%) higher. 

 

10% increase in CU's, 29% increase in frequency. 

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