[ExpertReviews]Radeon HD 7790 linked to Xbox 720

[vampirr]

AMD has launched the Radeon HD 7790, the company's latest mid-range DirectX 11.1 graphics card, to fill the void between the £100 HD 7770 and £160 HD 7850. Built around the same 28nm process as existing 7-series GPUs, the HD 7790 uses a revised version of the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture codenamed Bonaire - and could be a major indication of what to expect inside the Xbox 720 console.

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/grap...hd-7790-architecture-links-it-to-xbox-720-gpu

 

[slayernine]

We'd be awfully lucky to get a 7790 in the new Xbox but I'm doubtful of this conjecture.

 

[NTMBK]

It may well share the same revised GCN cores, but other than that no. Different chip entirely.

 

[Cloudfire777]

Although it may be HD 7790, it will be nowhere that performance, CUs disabled, cores running very low clocks, memory downclocked etc.

7790 can do 1792 Gflops.
The GPU inside Xbox 720 does 1230 Gflops.

 

[Jimzz]

Although it may be HD 7790, it will be nowhere that performance, CUs disabled, cores running very low clocks, memory downclocked etc.

7790 can do 1792 Gflops.
The GPU inside Xbox 720 does 1230 Gflops.

Wanna put money that will not be the retail number? :awe:

 

[blackened23]

and could be a major indication of what to expect inside the Xbox 720 console.

Did you really take this sentence of speculative journalism with no substantiation, and turn it into this thread?

 

[Cloudfire777]

Wanna put money that will not be the retail number? :awe:

Depends.

PS4 GPU can do 1840 Gflops. It might be that Microsoft have room to change the GPU to match that but I doubt it.

Especially if they follow the route Sony went. They put the GPU and the CPU on the same silicon, so they are pretty much stuck with whatever chips they have mass produced.

 

[smackababy]

Depends.

PS4 GPU can do 1840 Gflops. It might be that Microsoft have room to change the GPU to match that but I doubt it.

Especially if they follow the route Sony went. They put the GPU and the CPU on the same silicon, so they are pretty much stuck with whatever chips they have mass produced.

This might not be entirely true. The first couple versions of the 360 had the GPU and CPU on difference silicon I believe. And then later combined with the newer models. I suppose they could change at some point.