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Sometimes reliable leaker, KeplerL2, has taken to a Neogaf forum thread to note their predictions/expectations/made-up numbers for the performance of the next-gen consoles: PS6: 40 teraflops | Xbox Project Helix: 56 teraflops. That's RX 9070+ kinda performance, and a theoretical 40% performance delta for the Microsoft console over the Sony slab of silicon.
But teraflops are never a perfect measure of relative performance between different products, even if both will have essentially the same AMD architecture under the hood. The next-gen console bunfight is still expected to kick off later next year, so even as a PC Gamer do the new consoles hold any attraction for you?
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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
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Sometimes reliable leaker, KeplerL2, has taken to a Neogaf forum thread to note their predictions/expectations/made-up numbers for the performance of the next-gen consoles: PS6: 40 teraflops | Xbox Project Helix: 56 teraflops. That's RX 9070+ kinda performance, and a theoretical 40% performance delta for the Microsoft console over the Sony slab of silicon.
But teraflops are never a perfect measure of relative performance between different products, even if both will have essentially the same AMD architecture under the hood. The next-gen console bunfight is still expected to kick off later next year, so even as a PC Gamer do the new consoles hold any attraction for you?
The PC Gamer Circuit Breaker newsletter breaks down the latest PC gaming tech, and finds you the best deals on the best products
Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
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Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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