Will Microsoft outgun Sony with its generation 1.5 console?

[HEXUS]

Reports suggest the Xbox One Scorpio offers 6TFLOPS, and the PS4K just over 4TFLOPS.

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[kalniel]

Where do you get the 4TFLOPS figure from for the PS4 neo? I thought it was going to be 5.8TFLOPS (2304 cores, 1266mhz), so if XB1 Scopio is offering a rounded 6 then they're basically identical.

[scaryjim]

Hexus got it from Polygon, who got it from GiantBomb: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/sources-the-upgraded-playstation-4-is-codenamed-ne/1100-5437/

That says 2304 cores at 911MHz (plus 8 Jaguar CPU cores @ 2.1GHz).

[shaithis]

Surely, all numbers are purely speculation at this point?

[qasdfdsaq]

You mean... generation 4.5...

[kalniel]

So perhaps PS is the SoC and XB is going down a CPU+GPU route? Intriguing.

[Corky34]

What's the betting that no matter how much better its going to be someone in upper management is going to find a way to hobble it.

[SHSPVR]

It should be just a High End AMD Zen processors with Polaris GPU as console is a highly specialized / optimized device programming access, lightweight console OS with minimum overheads.

[shaithis]

So perhaps PS is the SoC and XB is going down a CPU+GPU route? Intriguing.

Would they be able to do the CPU + GPU route and maintain compatibility with all the use of HSA in current games?

[TRUTHnTRINITY]

So perhaps PS is the SoC and XB is going down a CPU+GPU route? Intriguing.

Would they be able to do the CPU + GPU route and maintain compatibility with all the use of HSA in current games?

And will they be able to maintain a competitive price range if indeed they do go CPU+GPU route...

[jigger]

This will be a serious gaming system if true. A 4x performance jump would put the Xbox well into 4K gaming territory.

[Bagpuss]

This will be a serious gaming system if true. A 4x performance jump would put the Xbox well into 4K gaming territory.

Not really, to run a 1080p/30fps Xbox One title at 4K/60fps would require a notional x8 fold increase in computational power.

Double the frame rate at four times the resolution.

[jigger]

4x the resolution wouldn't require 4x the performance and 60 FPS is not required. If the new Xbox one is 4x the performance of the old one that allows for consoles to move to 4K.

[Wozza63]

It's basically a new generation with backwards compatibility (like it used to be).

[b0redom]

This isn't really news is it? One unannounced product may be faster than another unannounced product. Possibly. In theory.

I've heard that the PS5 may be faster than the successor to the Xbox One......

[failquail]

Interesting that the PS3/360 generation lasted such a ludicrously long time (holding back gaming in general in the latter years) yet this new gen seems like it'll have the quickest upgrade time in all history