[Proelite]

The AMD China guy is completely a fraud. The TDP of a console GPU isn't going to correspond to a part that's on the market.

[nunomoreira]

he was probably referring to cus...
why can´t he say more, it´s not like he's gonna break is Nda again

Gnc is a very scalable architecture and being durango so customized i doubt you could say the gpu is based on anything as much as comparable to.
don´t really think he is that a reliable source.

[N2O]

Originally Posted by Proelite

The AMD China guy is completely a fraud. The TDP of a console GPU isn't going to correspond to a part that's on the market.

What?0.1W GPU for Durango?

Originally Posted by nunomoreira

he was probably referring to cus...
why can´t he say more, it´s not like he's gonna break is Nda again

Gnc is a very scalable architecture and being durango so customized i doubt you could say the gpu is based on anything as much as comparable to.
don´t really think he is that a reliable source.

That maybe my bad translate,maybe you can try to use google translate or something
http://club.tgfcer.com/thread-6593085-13-1.html
(哪个层次的显卡 maybe means "which series GPU")

[Exophase]

Originally Posted by N2O

What?0.1W GPU for Durango?

If you don't want something bigger and louder than the first PS3 and XBox 360 then consider 200W an upper limit for the entire system, which likely leaves less than 150W for the GPU even if it's given a very favorable chunk of that balance.

[Helmore]

Originally Posted by anexanhume

Die size and TDP could both hinder that plan. A 7870 binned for 7970M is lower power than a normal 7870. They shave off 30W by reducing clocks and binning.

Isn't the 7970M 75 Watts?

EDIT: Probably not. Guess Wikipedia is wrong, who'd imagined that? >.< :P

[N2O]

Originally Posted by Exophase

If you don't want something bigger and louder than the first PS3 and XBox 360 then consider 200W an upper limit for the entire system, which likely leaves less than 150W for the GPU even if it's given a very favorable chunk of that balance.

Wait when i said 150W+ GPU?

[Bagel seed]

I think that whole tgfcer board is full of joke characters having fun with us. It's sort of like linking gamespot forum posts as sources now.

Not a confirmed dev = no believe.

[N2O]

Originally Posted by Bagel seed

I think that whole tgfcer board is full of joke characters having fun with us. It's sort of like linking gamespot forum posts as sources now.

Not a confirmed dev = no believe.

That will be a some crazy plan you know
A chinese tech forum members make full of joke to lure neogaf insiders leak something new

But i think #1 AMD China guy really working for AMD(not sure #2),since some other members already said that(well,but like what you said,maybe everyone in TGFC are trolls)

[bitsandbytes]

Originally Posted by Exophase

If you don't want something bigger and louder than the first PS3 and XBox 360 then consider 200W an upper limit for the entire system, which likely leaves less than 150W for the GPU even if it's given a very favorable chunk of that balance.

70-80 watts is the upper limit IMO for the GPU. My best guess for how the launch PS3 broke down:

GPU= ~70W
CPU= ~50W
Everything else ~40-50W (inc PS2 BC)
Assume 80% PSU efficiency

Total ~200-210 power draw.

I think PS4 will draw around 150W or lower. Though it depends how much Sony customise and/or dedicate to non-gaming stuff.

[N2O]

Originally Posted by Helmore

Isn't the 7970M 75 Watts?

EDIT: Probably not. Guess Wikipedia is wrong, who'd imagined that? >.< :P

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-...M.77110.0.html

[Bagel seed]

Originally Posted by N2O

That will be a some crazy plan you know
A chinese tech forum members make full of joke to lure neogaf insiders leak something new

Exactly!

But i think #1 AMD China guy really working for AMD(not sure #2),since some other members already said that(well,but like what you said,maybe everyone in TGFC are trolls)

I think that guy is just a huge MS fan, judging from his Bill Gates avatar

[Exophase]

Originally Posted by N2O

Wait when i said 150W+ GPU?

I never said you did. You seemed to be asking what maximum power consumption makes sense..

[Sonic]

Wait. That SEGA and Sony rumor regarding same hardware......I believe that is entirely plausible. SEGA has used console hardware in the past and I don't see a reason not to use Sony's machine for the arcade. It will be cheap enough (in terms of arcade pricing) and have powerful enough hardware to make awesome visuals. It allows SEGA to have direct access to Sony's new console hardware and make for effortless porting. And with having the knowledge that comes with both arcade and home console markets will allow the company to learn the hardware faster. Then again the same advantages would be had if they used MS's console. But I would think Sony''s machine would be the basis for the new arcade hardware given this being the 3rd time I've heard this rumor.

[Rangers]

OK, about the three blocks of custom external hardware to assist in gaming tasks, I've realized/found out these are in Durango at large, not necessarily the GPU. They could be CPU related or anything I guess.

Only it's known that one of the blocks is in the GPU.

So I dont know, maybe an audio DSP for one? A section of vector units to assist the CPU's? The GPU block could just be the ESRAM/related goodies?

[N2O]

It's AI

[anexanhume]

Originally Posted by Rangers

OK, about the three blocks of custom external hardware to assist in gaming tasks, I've realized/found out these are in Durango at large, not necessarily the GPU. They could be CPU related or anything I guess.

Only it's known that one of the blocks is in the GPU.

So I dont know, maybe an audio DSP for one? A section of vector units to assist the CPU's? The GPU block could just be the ESRAM/related goodies?

DSP dedicated to Kinect and Kinect 2.0 features?

[(((interference)))]

Originally Posted by Rangers

Okay, a reliable rumor is that Durango GPU has at least 3 sections of custom external hardware to help in gaming tasks. One said to be inside the GPU, and that "you can guess some of them easily" or something like that. Well, I cant, lol.

Fascinating! Special sauce seems to be very real.

Edit: One of the "sections of external hardware" could be the ESRAM I suppose.

Edit2: Could another be a tesselation add on or something?

I'm guessing an audio DSP, a video encoder (for the DVR functionality) and maybe the ESRAM is the custom block in the GPU.
But who knows what else could be in there, maybe a tesellation unit.

Originally Posted by Helmore

What I find odd is that some rumors peg the neXtBox as the more powerful kit while other say the PS4 will be more powerful. BTW, aren't the game devs that are in the know indicating that the neXtBox will be more powerful than the PS4?

Most of the rumours indicate Durango could be more powerful overall, but it has a weaker GPU than Orbis and so people like bgassassin use this to contest that Durango is more powerful (against lherre).

Basically the rumours tie in well with the 720 having more memory and cores than PS4 but a possibly weaker on paper GPU.

[onQ]

Originally Posted by Rangers

Okay, a reliable rumor is that Durango GPU has at least 3 sections of custom external hardware to help in gaming tasks. One said to be inside the GPU, and that "you can guess some of them easily" or something like that. Well, I cant, lol.

Fascinating! Special sauce seems to be very real.

Edit: One of the "sections of external hardware" could be the ESRAM I suppose.

Edit2: Could another be a tesselation add on or something?

Reminds me of when I was talking about using things like FPGA & DSP to help the CPU & GPU with certain tasks.

[bkilian]

[XpiderMX]

Originally Posted by Rangers

OK, about the three blocks of custom external hardware to assist in gaming tasks, I've realized/found out these are in Durango at large, not necessarily the GPU. They could be CPU related or anything I guess.

Only it's known that one of the blocks is in the GPU.

So I dont know, maybe an audio DSP for one? A section of vector units to assist the CPU's? The GPU block could just be the ESRAM/related goodies?

A PPU xD

a video encoder (for the DVR functionality)

It is not gaming related.

[(((interference)))]

Originally Posted by Inuhanyou

From Aegis in response:

Everything I've heard from reliable sources makes your series of guesses, particularly about total teraflops, impossible. Save for the DDR3 guess, which I'm worried might be true. Which would be incredibly stupid.

I think aegies doesn't really know that much when it comes to tech, some of his posts on the GAF thread seemed to showt he can't ascertain whether the AMD China rumours tie in with his own specs.
Eg:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...&postcount=556

Though he is talking about total teraflops, which is CPU+GPU flops, which might well put Durango above 2TF.

Any estimates on the FLOPS of the 8 1.6GHz Jaguar cores?

[(((interference)))]

Originally Posted by MarkoIt

Someone on neogaf is claiming that the "final" flop number is 1.3 TF (10 CUs@1Ghz).

That's interesting, who's claiming that and what's his post history?

Is 1Ghz is clocked a bit high for a console? I would think a few more CUs at a lower clock

[N2O]

Originally Posted by (((interference)))

That's interesting, who's claiming that and what's his post history?

specialguy aka Rangers,so don't need to take seriously about that

[Bagel seed]

Originally Posted by bkilian

I can imagine what three blocks they're talking about, and at least two of them will help with graphics, although one is more general purpose. I have a special fondness for the third, since I spent many hours coming to terms with it's idiosyncracies.

I bet it's an AWE64. (8x8!)

[Quaz51]

Originally Posted by (((interference)))

Any estimates on the FLOPS of the 8 1.6GHz Jaguar cores?

8 Jaguar cores 1.6Ghz = 1 CU 800mhz = 102.8Gflops