Originally Posted By: Allen


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...Microsoft is calling its next-generation console project an “uncompromising gaming machine” packed with 4K video output at 60fps, VR support, an 8-core AMD CPU and over 320GB/s of memory bandwidth. This puts total system bandwidth right on par with Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 1080...


4.5 times the performance is starting to be "big", if real. Games will become "more AMD technology oriented", I speculate -- if the AMD-powered console wars really takes off -- and if the war results in AMD consoles nearly as strong as a high end (not maxxed out) gaming PC.


Oh come on Allen....you have been largely impartial up to this point. I can feel the excitement in your post and know you're an AMD fan but lets not get carried away, as 'powerful' as they like to market this its no different to the PS4/XO at launch.

Whilst some people were getting carried away by a mobile Jaguar CPU others knew what was coming and why it would struggle.

Bandwidth doesn't maketh the performance.....just ask yourself why Fury X is beaten in almost every game by a 980Ti. As for 'AMD consoles' (as you referred to them) being nearly as strong as a high-end PCs they're not going to be released until Q4 2017 when the competition will be Vega/Navi and the 1080TI and beyond. PCs obviously move on, consoles will always be years behind the curve at the point of launch.


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