07-29-2015, 09:51 AM
Plus, everybody knows that the 4K age has dawned upon us, so the console makers need something much more powerful for decent 4K graphics without suffering any IQ losses compared to what is currently shown on the PS4. Radeon and Geforce tech are that much more justified for driving 4K graphics. 16nm makes Titan-X performance feasible with just about 100-130 watt consumption (less than half of 28nm Titan X), which is about 5-6 times more powerful than XboxOne's GPU, considering all other things equal.
This would be gravely needed to push 4K, which is exactly 4 times the 1080p content barely being driven by the PS4, let alone XBONE (mainly 720p/900p).
In this light, with AMD being so dirt cheap this year, perhaps their x86 CPU business does not even matter that much anyway, in regards of competing against Intel with x86 CPU's. Microsoft would only need AMD to produce decent ZEN CPU's that are probably on the level of Ivy Bridge CPU's, consuming about 50W or so with 8 cores running at 3+GHz. Then Sony would be forced to explore other alternatives or go the much more expensive route with Intel's CPU's that still wouldn't make the console win out if Nvidia decides to make their own serious 4K Android SHIELD console while still refusing to support other consoles.
This would be gravely needed to push 4K, which is exactly 4 times the 1080p content barely being driven by the PS4, let alone XBONE (mainly 720p/900p).
In this light, with AMD being so dirt cheap this year, perhaps their x86 CPU business does not even matter that much anyway, in regards of competing against Intel with x86 CPU's. Microsoft would only need AMD to produce decent ZEN CPU's that are probably on the level of Ivy Bridge CPU's, consuming about 50W or so with 8 cores running at 3+GHz. Then Sony would be forced to explore other alternatives or go the much more expensive route with Intel's CPU's that still wouldn't make the console win out if Nvidia decides to make their own serious 4K Android SHIELD console while still refusing to support other consoles.
Ok with science that the big bang theory requires that fundamental scientific laws do not exist for the first few minutes, but not ok for the creator to defy these laws... 