http://www.forbes.com/sites/brianca...w-console-in-the-works-amd-building-graphics/ http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multim...phics_Processor_for_PlayStation_4_Report.html
If true. It would suck balls. Only AMD's 7 Series of Cards can compete with Nvidia cards from 400-500 series in terms of DX11 and tesselation performance. Seeing as how DX11 features are rumored to be in next gen consoles, only an Nvidia GPU or something from AMD's Southern Islands family of cards would suffice. The 7770 is a lower power card that performs almost on par with a stock GTX 460 1GB V1. Plus Backwards compatibility
So they are leaving nvidia right before kepler? smart.........not! Right now AMD has the best GPUs, but for how long? besides the latest highend chips are very expensive, and if sony goes for the mid/lowend (the 7700) then the PS4 is going to suck. Even the old 6850 beats a 7700, and its even cheaper!
Do we actually have any benchmarks that aren't from kepler yet? There's no real info. Kepler could produce something brilliant or the way it's being hyped up produce a bulldozer.
AMD has fantastic video chips just look at how good things looked on the gamecube and Wii most notably the 007 remake on the Wii
I've always preferred NVIDIA graphics. With PCs at least, NVIDIA cards always seem to be more compatible with different OSes and software. In my experience, they also seem to perform better. I had a Radeon 5850, which was a pretty good card, but it lagged in some places. Then I sold it and got a GeForce 560 Ti. It's noticeably faster in almost everything. Granted, it's a bit newer, but not much newer.
Usually NVIDIA cards are known for speed, but ATi is known for detail I never understood why I was told this but it sounds true from what I hear from the feedback of the two different manufactures.
I think is sad that right now the best GPUs out there are the old 6850 and even older 460 Anything else sucks or its so expensive is not worth the extra power, unless you MUST run everything at 1200p without starfox's framerate And its gonna get worst: the discrete graphics market is contracting since now even the cheapest CPUs have good-enough IGPs Between that, years of games moving to consoles and the mobile market (which is also getting some awesome GPUs as standard) graphics cards will become the equivalent of aftermarket turbo kits for cars
I dont keep track as much as I used to, but thats not been true for quite some time AFAIK Quick googling confirms: http://graphics-cards-review.toptenreviews.com/
