Message from @Gen Kumon
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yea I call bullshit on it. no way they will get the power of a super high end PC for the cost of what the average consumer wants to pay for a console
Indeed.
Not to mention some leaks from fairly reliable sources are pegging the CPU's clock speed at 2GHz.
So basically, laptop CPU speeds.
yea, sony dont have the money or the market console to get any CPU manufactory to sell them their high end CPU for a loss
And that's assuming they actually use the full power of the leaked specs rather than downclocking like Nintendo did with the Switch to save on heat and power.
yea as all consoles have shit cooling
Indeed. Even 2GHz is going to pump out way more heat than any previous console, with eight cores. They'll need, well, desktop grade cooling for that. So either jet-engine loud, or like, double the size of current gen consoles to fit the cooler.
And it'll be power hungry as hell too. Not going to be room for a powerful enough integrated PSU, most likely, at the current size. So again, either PC sized, or external power supply.
true. it a reason why most high end PC are the size they are
They *might* manage with a laptop style power brick, at best.
and the tiny ones you can cook bacon on
So not...massively inconvient, but notable.
All you have to do is look at gaming-grade laptops to see all the design problems they'll have to face.
The higher end ones require *two* normal laptop power supplies to run.
And are *loud*.
it a reason why they are a massive heavy brick that you can use as a apartment stove on the side
Not to mention, projected release dates for this range from Summer to Winter of 2020. The tech will be a generation old by then.
but the sad part is that console is the reason why most brand new tech is not that used in PC games
Eh, sorta kinda. Frankly, a lot of the issue the last few years has been general tech stagnation, mostly because AMD wasn't offering any real competition to Intel or Nvidia.
They finally stepped up their game, and now all three are starting to move again.
competition is always good
Exactly.
Intel got to sit on their asses basically just tweaking existing CPU designs for years on end, and Nvidia, while progressing decently in power, jacked up their prices.
Because if you wanted top end GPUs, you HAD to buy from Nvidia.
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But yeah, things are looking up this generation. Zen 2 actually has decent performance, if still a tad shy of Intel's 9th gen Core chips. AMD also has a good upper-mid tier graphics card at a decent price, and Intel is getting ready to *finally* release 10nm CPUs, first in laptops, then in a year or two on desktops, and are also preparing to enter the graphics card market.
And a new faster memory standard is about to be released in the same timeframe.
AMD returning as the good cheaper alternative for intel is good news
Ayp. And Intel entering into the GPU game is going to push both AMD and Nvidia.
There have been occasions where Nvidia and AMD/ATI have basically played games with the market to maximize profit for both.
Intel don't play that game. Intel wants all the money for Intel.
Intel will bleed Intel if it means bigger loss of blood for AMD and Nvidia.
and Intel have a lot of recuses to pull from they can keep it up a long time if they wants
well, its gonna take a while, iirc its first focusing on professional applications
True, but it's still going to push AMD and Nvidia. They use the same base hardware for their Quadro/FirePro cards as for their general consumer cards.
So a lot of the competition in that space will still push development for gaming cards.
