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Detailed Specifications of Microsoft Xbox Next GPU Emerge on the Web.

Started by: turtle | Date 02/06/13 12:41:19 AM
Comments: 12 | Last Comment:  02/08/13 09:39:47 AM

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Sounds good-enough for 1080p/30fps in the current pc landscape (say comparable to the pc version of bf3 with everything turned on and 4x AA). It's kind of depressing they don't seem to be looking to raise the bar a little, more-so seemingly happy for us to remain stagnant.

More and more it seems like

wii u: ~720p/30
xbox: 1080p/30
ps4: >1080p/30 (~/< 1080p/60)

If so, that says to me xbox will likely be the standard, ps4 will either have better visuals or perhaps higher frame rates (just as we see currently with consoles titles at 30hz and their pc ports at 60hz), and the wii u, if included in a cross-platform launch, may have to likely sacrifice quality to get to 720p/30, if the title not engineered to scale in such a way.

If these rumors end up being true, it seems less like competition and more 'pick your poison' with each probably differentiated by price.
2 0 [Posted by: turtle  | Date: 02/06/13 12:41:19 AM]
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Don't even bother mentioning Wii U. Almost no developer wants to program for it, especially when the CPU is worse than the CPUs in current consoles.
3 2 [Posted by: mmstick  | Date: 02/06/13 03:03:38 AM]
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True-enough, no doubt AAA titles will not flow heavily from outside Nintendo with such a gap. If they did scale from 720p30->1080p60, obviously the xbox would get screwed, obviously less-so if they do 1080p30->1080p60. I don't doubt the majority will do as happens currently, and just use the difference in power to have slightly better visuals on the playstation.

Just sayin'...that looks to be how it stacks up, more-or-less.
0 0 [Posted by: turtle  | Date: 02/06/13 03:41:13 AM]
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As we speak, there is a Japanese monk on the top of Mount Fuji programming a Wii U game for tweenage girls involving plush toy-like characters with overly large heads that must be directed through a bondage dungeon to collect and eat boiled lollies before their energy levels get too low and they're cornered and punished. Who needs Halo?
5 1 [Posted by: linuxlowdown  | Date: 02/06/13 03:57:10 AM]
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Will it lack a Start button and run tablet games full screen? Kidding. I'm glad MS chose AMD over Nvidia. Pity they're not dropping in an AMD APU like Playstation. They must have got a better deal on a CPU somewhere else because the hardware side of things is so cut throat. But then MS got it wrong with the Xbox 360 when they went with Toshiba's HD-DVD standard instead of Blu-ray.
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0 0 [Posted by: turtle  | Date: 02/06/13 03:45:01 AM]
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0 5 [Posted by: TAViX  | Date: 02/06/13 03:53:16 AM]
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~HD7770 for Xbox 720, HD7850 level for PS4, far better than the originally rumored specs of HD6670/7670 or only using A10-5800K APU (and no dedicated GPU, relying on the gimped HD7660D).
0 0 [Posted by: BestJinjo  | Date: 02/07/13 12:04:51 PM]
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Whatever the processing power of new consoles GPU, at least it supports DX11. By that way PC gamers at least get native DX11 games.Some relief.....
4 0 [Posted by: tks  | Date: 02/06/13 09:30:10 AM]
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"102.4Gb/s throughput and low-latency"

GB/s!
1 0 [Posted by: bluvg  | Date: 02/06/13 09:55:50 AM]
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The real # that matters is 68 GB/sec memory bandwidth shared with DDR3 of main system memory.
0 0 [Posted by: BestJinjo  | Date: 02/07/13 12:05:34 PM]
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Right, I was just pointing out the "GB/s instead of "Gb/s". 102.4 Gb/s would not be impressive!
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