According to IGN, sources close to the next Xbox project have told them the new console will have six times the graphics processing power of the Xbox 360, and will have 20 per cent more performance than Nintendo’s Will U.
Sounds pretty awesome right? Too bad it’s not expected to ship until October or November of 2013. Le sigh. IGN’s sources have also confirmed that the Xbox 720′s — or whatever it ends up being called — GPU will begin production by the end of this year, and will be based on AMD’s 6000 series instead of the newer 7000 series. More specifically, it will most likely be not that far off from the current $US80 Radeon HD 6670.
On one hand it’s nice to see the rumours of the next-gen Xbox starting to solidify, but on the other hand, waiting until 2013 to get our hands on one is going to be arduous. [IGN via Kotaku Australia]
29Dimensions
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 9:52 AMOnly six times? According to Moore’s law (assuming a conservative 24 months of doubling performance), and the fact that the 360 was released in 2005, which makes it 8 years older than the new one, amounting to aprox 4×24 months, the new one should be 2^4 = 16x more powerful.
What gives?
someone
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:08 AMEven by todays standards, that is a pretty basic mid-range affordable card. And thats today. So the hardware will already be obsolete by the time the new Xbox is released?
Having said that, the X360′s hardware is very old by todays standards, and yet it still manages to squeeze out Crysis 2 and Skyrim (etc).
someone
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:14 AMAlso! If the card GPU is roughly $80, (usually the most expensive part of a build) I would like to see how much they will charge on release and if that price is justified.
david
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:16 AMwhat makes consoles look so good is the fact that all the hardware is identical.
Nothing wrong with an $80 video card when a game is specifically coded to utilize that card only.
That being said it would be nice if they stuck a beefier card in, but costs have to remain low. $499 is the sweet spot that ships millions of consoles.
$80 video card
$100 processor
$100 HDD
Custom case
Controller
Optical Drive
Memory
Power supply
They have to put all that in the box as well as give warranties and support the damn things. So if you think about it an $80 video card is probably about all they can afford without loosing money on each console.
Sarah
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 11:35 AMHopefully sold at a reasonable price this time. I stupidly paid $650 at launch for my 360, never again!
$300-$349 would be decent
Isaac
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:20 AMWow, hardware is more expensive one launch? This is new an valuable information.
mauly
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 3:31 AMThe difference between this gen and the last?
Medium settings.
TSH
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:26 PMIIRC, when the 360 was released the ATI card it housed was essentially a custom version of a bleeding-edge chip. This of course was half the reason they had a 30% failure rate, but it has meant that the machine was first to market *and* has had a really good long run.
I don’t know how that will be really possible with what is currently an $80 GPU. Having said that, GPU performance gains over the past five years has completely blown Moore’s law out of the water. So perhaps “Xbox Next” will be more focussed on being an entertainment hub (quiet, capacious, connected and relatively cheap) than a pure gaming machine.
Also, if these numbers are to be believed some quick arithmetic suggests that WiiU will be ~4.8 times as powerful as an Xbox360. Which is cool!