I will be impressed if this is true. Next gen might have some hope after all!
If they're using DDR3 and Jaguar cores it'll be pretty cheap to assemble and maufacture.I don't know how they could put together these specs and have it cost anything under $450 without taking a huge loss.
599.99$ us Dollars.
Think 7850/7870 with lower clock speed and lower TDP
Everything ending on x800 at AMD is a mid-range card. As the next generation mid-range one could expect it to be a bit slower than current generation high-end.I'm not too familiar with PC video cards.. What's an 8800 like compared to a 7970?
Edit: oh shit the 8800 isn't even out? Wow. That is some fucking power, god damn.
Holy sh*t. 8 GB of memory? That's good to hear. I actually expected no more than 2 GB.
I don't know how they could put together these specs and have it cost anything under $450 without taking a huge loss.
If it's Jaguar cores and 8 GB DDR3 that's easy.I don't know how they could put together these specs and have it cost anything under $450 without taking a huge loss.
I sort of believe the "Xbox 8" naming rumours, if this is true.
8 cores
8 gigs RAM
8800 GPU
Talks to Windows 8
Etc
If any of this is true, I wonder how a 8800 (or for that matter, whatever it was before the rebrand) would fare in a closed system. It certainly sounds like more than just an incremental upgrade.
It's MS, they can afford it. This time they have 360 that will sell very well for the next 2-3 years and will recoup the next-fen losses.I don't know how they could put together these specs and have it cost anything under $450 without taking a huge loss.
If it's Jaguar cores and 8 GB DDR3 that's easy.
I'm ready to throw my money. I don't even care if it's 599 is Alan Wake 2 is a launch title. Sony better really step it up if these specs are true.
if it's Windows 8, are we expecting the full desktop OS, or something more like Windows 8 RT?
It's MS, they can afford it. This time they have 360 that will sell very well for the next 2-3 years and will recoup the next-fen losses.
I don't know how they could put together these specs and have it cost anything under $450 without taking a huge loss.
By taking said huge loss I suppose. There is no other way.
if it's Windows 8, are we expecting the full desktop OS, or something more like Windows 8 RT?
Everything ending on x800 at AMD is a mid-range card. As the next generation mid-range one could expect it to be a bit slower than current generation high-end.
8 CPU cores are fantastic if they are "fat" cores, but a bit disappointing if it's just Jaguar.
If it's Jaguar cores and 8 GB DDR3 that's easy.
640GB hard drive is most probably only for the dev kits.
Historically dev kits have much bigger hard drives than actual retail units.
also if by 8800 they mean they latest re-badged batch of OEM 8800s which are 7800s in all but name.
I thought you were coming around to the idea of multiple skinny cores? Or is it just the '8' part thats an issue?
Presumably at least one would be locked off for OS, possibly two.
My body is ready.
lol... Seriously? you think Microsoft makes THAT much money on the 360.
POWER7 has these specifications:[12][13]
45 nm SOI process, 567 mm2
1.2 billion transistors
3.0 4.25 GHz clock speed
max 4 chips per quad-chip module
4, 6 or 8 C1 cores per chip
4 SMT threads per C1 core (available in AIX 6.1 TL05 (releases in April 2010) and above)
12 execution units per C1 core:
2 fixed-point units
2 load/store units
4 double-precision floating-point units
1 vector unit supporting VSX
1 decimal floating-point unit
1 branch unit
1 condition register unit
32+32 kB L1 instruction and data cache (per core)[14]
256 kB L2 Cache (per C1 core)
4 MB L3 cache per C1 core with maximum up to 32MB supported. The cache is implemented in eDRAM, which does not require as many transistors per cell as a standard SRAM[5] so it allows for a larger cache while using the same area as SRAM.
AMD (not nVidia) HD8800 series. The one that's not even out.
Yes? They easily make $1b + profit in EDD yearly, a $50 loss on each 720, say they sell 10 mill first year, that's $500 mill loss. It's hefty but it can be covered.