So we have a third contender for a next-gen console! Could we have an ARM CPU and Intel GPU design? Or are we beholden to x64 now? Is the choice more Intel SoC or AMD SoC? Still, nice that Intel are competitive and there are more options and competitive pressures.
well, I am not sure it is going to happen. I can recall when the abandoned Larrabee was a posible design for a console chip I was so hyped back then.
Dont you think that backwards compatibility is a must nowadays? I can't foresee consoles switching to ARM coming from a x64 background. Backwards compatibility works very well on PC, with games still selling accross several generations -I recently purchased some Heroes of Might & Magic games from Ubisoft, to name a few-.
As for a third contender..., in the PC space sure we have a new contender now.
This time I am going with Intel: 100% sure. They seem to be solid GPUs and if they dont work well, it's "just" 350€, so if you ever switch GPU again, it won't hurt as much.
nVidia is just adding more and more of everything -power but also power consumption- with a new GPU which consumes between 450W to 600W of power.
I also doesn't help that nVidia starts this generation showing a GPU for rich people for which I neither care nor like. If they showed a mid-range or mid-high range GPU like the 4070 or 4060, it would be more interesting, but after seeing the 4090 at such a price.... enough money with which you can almost buy a good second-hand car, the hype for other Ada GPUs has decreased more than increased.
I am more interested in what AMD offers and to see if this time they RT performance is on par. That said, I just want October 12th to come asap and get the A770 16GB.