Developers will simply treat Lockhart as the redheaded stepchild (i.e., the same way they do with XB1 original) and concentrate more resources on the premium systems visuals & performance profiles.
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Developers will simply treat Lockhart as the redheaded stepchild (i.e., the same way they do with XB1 original) and concentrate more resources on the premium systems visuals & performance profiles.
1440p with temporal injection (4K) looks quite good. Spider-Man on the PS4 Pro is a good example of this.
Tkumpathenurpahl
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I don't buy the 4TF figure either. Surely they'd want the PR of their entry level next-gen console being able to run games at a higher quality, or at least as high, as their last-gen premium console.
I'd expect a split more along the lines of:
A pretty big gulf in CU count and clockspeed to salvage the maximum amount of SoC's/GPU's.
I'd expect a split more along the lines of:
- Anaconda = 48CU's @ 2GHz = 12.3TF
- Lockhart = 40CU's @ 1.4GHz = 7.2TF
A pretty big gulf in CU count and clockspeed to salvage the maximum amount of SoC's/GPU's.
AbsoluteBeginner
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It was all infront of our eyes. Whats the codename for Anaconda I forgot?
AbsoluteBeginner
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If Lockhart is next gen entry for 1080/1440p people, there is no need for anything above 5TF IMO. 4.5TF and 10TF is my opinion.
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Deleted member 11852
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My man, you greatly under-estimate the nonsense PR can produce!
Of course it's not just about the number of teraflops, compared to current gen any new console is come to come with so many GPU architectural improvements that it's nothing like a like-for-like comparison. That said, I'm not buying 4Tf either - unless Microsoft are aiming for the ultra-budget market.Agree. Most of the GPU processing power goes to rendering the pixels for 1080p/1440p 4-5TF will be sufficient.
Releasing Lockhart based on salvaged chips may allow them to release Anaconda at a lower price as well as the overall yield should be pretty good.
I don't think anyone on these (or any gaming) forums is the target for lockhart.
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No, I wouldn't rule out an AppleTV-like mini-box. I don't think Microsoft have nothing in this bracket and they are ceding this small, but seemingly lucrative, product segment of the living room to Google, Amazon and Apple.
Could Lockhart fill that market though? Surely it'll be too big and hot and you'd need an XB1 Mini.
anexanhume
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Lockhart exists because budget gamers don’t have reliable internet access. That’s it. At least IMO.
Arden.
Consider that Lockhart is diskless, that wouldn't make any sense...
But it will be a DD only console with games that are 100GB+ downloads each, it seems to clash against budget gamers having a slow and capped internet.
I am. Generalizations like that are never good. We're not all made of money.
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