Possible technics for next gen consoles?

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What kind of technics could be used to improve qualitity in next gen of consoles, without raising to much the price, if they have a target. I mean if we aim at 720p we already had enough filtrate (in theory at least) so things like this

Of course, smaller granularity is more efficient, but doubling the number of pipes is far more expensive than doubling the number of ALUs per pipe. Not considering the mini ALUs, R420's arithmetic to texture ratio is 1:1, while R500's is 3:1 (vec4).

make a lot of sense, like Virtual Memory it can reduce the memory cost, as eDram. A in order CPU.Or a connection between C/GPU.

Those things could make a huge diference and ( in a console ) they are relatively low cost.


What kind of others technics could they use to create low cost consoles and give this kind of performance boost