I remember Arthur Gies posting a lot on the old place about how the Xbox One was a beast with a ton of "special sauce" and that no one even knew what Sony was doing.
So maybe the big (yet still realistic) thing Benji could be talking about is chiplet, it works with the two SKUs concept
While it does sound improbable, if they gave them a launch date and money, or course they could. Is PS5 launched early in the year and MS wants a Nov launch, there is certainly tech that might be available later. Again, it's all pretty crazy but not impossible.
They would have to pay up a lot of money for this I'd think. I mean, it's not like they can't afford it though and it is basically going to define their next gen and how they are perceived over the next ~7 years. I can see it happening but the real game changer here will be pricing. If they can make a console which is noticeably more powerful (let's say PRO vs X) and price it within $50 of the PS5 I think they'll do very well especially now that Youtubers such as Digital Foundry are so well known with their graphics comparisons. In fact, I'd even go as far to say they are a contributing factor to why the Xbox One was perceived so terribly. Their resolution comparisons became headline news for a time.
Haha well then, that is a little more crazy. That's also not to say that crazy deals have not been made but this kind of deal would be super shady.
Another way to put this. Would AMD who relys on their semi custom business fuck over one of their biggest customers? Think about how stupid that is. Unless MS came to them with a bigger budget, which is possible and even likely. But that not what he said. And if that's what he was told, he either twisted it or butchered the message
It's odd because he clearly understands the concept of a conflict wall.
But it's really not how OEM's and suppliers work together. When AMD and MS sit down to discuss things I can almost guarantee that AMD is not going to say a peep or divulging anything that goes on down the hall where Sony and AMD are having a talk.
Going back to this table, I think we should expect somewhere between Navi 10 and Navi 10 "SE" on the highest end console with performance landing between RTX 2070 and RTX 2080.So this guy seems to know whats hes talking about. This is what his sources have given him,.
I think we can expect RX 3070 levels of performance. Anything more than that and its just not going to fit the TDP budget of a console which needs to power the HDD (or SSD now), the UHD and other components.
Vega 56 is an 8 tflops GPU which means Team 8tflops has been resurrected. The Vega 56 had a TDP of 210 so going to 7nm, it seems like they have been able to get a significant reduction in power consumption, but its clearly not enough to get Vega 64 (12 tflops) level of performance into next gen consoles. Disappointing.
All of this reminded me of the clusterfuck surrounding the development of the Cell chip and MS' CPU, lol. IBM pretty much took the cell chip, did some mods and gave it to MS because they made an offer they can't refuse.
