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[QUOTE="Mazoch"]It must be a cold day in hell, I think Reach3 actually posted something that seems mostly plausible to me! People in the threat keep thinking in terms of today's hardware standards. We're not likely to see the 720 until late '13 at the earliest. Late '14 is much more likely (in fact Reach3's own article claims 2014 as the launch year). So while no console manufacturer would put a 7990 video card in a console today, in 2014 that'll be 2 year old tech. The only thing I think is highly unlikely is them going for a dual core GPU, instead I think a 7950 or 7970 equivalent is most likely where they would aim. Now since this is 2012 a 7970 sounds crazy, but think back 2 years. Back then 5850 and 5870 cards were the 'hot new cutting edge' cards. Imagine if the WiiU announced that it's GPU would be a 5870. That wouldn't be that shocking or surprising... if anything it would be kinda underwhelming. MS aiming for a solid but 2 year old card at the time of launch .. yeah I can believe that. As for a 16 core CPU, same principle applies. While a 16 core CPY sounds crazy today, 2 years down the road it wont have to be nearly as mind blowing. And just because it has 4 cores it doesn't have to be the equivalent of 4 top end i7's. The last gen also saw the consoles place a much greater emphasis on CPU's compared to GPU's. The X360 had 3 cores while dual core were just starting to become the standard on PC's. The PS3 using 'the Cell' with it's unique architecture and high floating point potential. With that in mind, 16 cores in 2 years from now doesn't seem that unlikely. What Reach3 is saying (though it's not what he's trying to say), is that the 720 will be a solid but not mind blowing gaming console by late 2013 or mid 2014. Mazoch
16 core CPUs sound crazy 2 years down the road from a design standpoint. Intel and AMD have moved to the APUs because more cores was not the route to take. They said that back during the Core 2 Duo age. 4 cores with 2 threads a peice was about as much as they needed from a hardware and software standpoint.As for the 7990, are you forgetting that's a dual GPU card?
I don't care if you're trolling or not.
The rumors are the PS4 is going to have an AMD APU processor instead of a larger Cell. APUs are the way CPU design is going. Not just more general cores. 16 core CPU yeilds would be terrible and production costs would be to high even 10 years from now.
Think back to 2 years before the X360 was released. In 2003 no one used dual core CPU's in their home machines. Pentium 4 was the fancy high end CPU out there and AMD was just starting to show what they could do with the Duron and K2's. If someone had said back then that the next game console would have not 2 but 3 cores, most people would have thought it was a joke. I'm not saying the 720 will have 16 cores, it just dosent sound that far fetched to me.
As for the 7990, I did point out in my post that I didnt think that they would be likely to use a dual core GPU and pointed to the 7970 or 7950 as much more likely candidates. But my point stand, that a console 2 years from now using a 79XX GPU dosent sound the least bit crazy to me.
But in 2003, dual core processors were already in development, we knew the performance gains and they were being worked on. Now we know that more cores isn't the way to go.
It's far fretched for a lot of reasons. PCs won't even have that many cores, nor will super computer processors. There is no point. Costs to much to make, to much heat, and way to much power consumption.
Anyways, 16 core CPUs wouldn't even be used properly and you wouldn't see jack for performance gains.
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