The Xbox 720 will use the Radeon HD 6670 card !

[FlintIronStagg]

Lets admit pc sucks. Nobody likes a rewarding building experience followed by better and smoother visuals.
I just wanna buy a ecksbocks and play cod and.pwn.noobs.

 

[RussK1]

Lets admit pc sucks. Nobody likes a rewarding building experience followed by better and smoother visuals.
I just wanna buy a ecksbocks and play cod and.pwn.noobs.

Yeah PC sucks!

...also to beat a dead horse here, for Drazhar to assume the 720 will be in the $300-$350 price range is flat out asinine. That's close to what the 360 goes for now. Realistically I'd expect the starting prices beginning around $600-$800.

 

[esrever]

Besides the PS3 is better; I can play games, watch Youtube and play Blu-ray movies! Oh, and free online multi-player.

couldn't you do this on PC?

 

[seumas_beathan]

you pc fan boys are worse than any console fanboy i have ever come across..

Besides the PS3 is better; I can play games, watch Youtube and play Blu-ray movies! Oh, and free online multi-player.

Xbox has youtube also, And has xbox been hacked? 😀 But honestly if it wasnt for the fact that all my friends have xbox i would certianly get a ps3

 

[RussK1]

couldn't you do this on PC?

Yes of course... I'm just being funny.

I play Call of Duty on the PS (for obvious reasons) and Tiger Woods golf (this game is great when friends are over).

 

[Zen911]

OK, i don't understand why does it have to cause such arguements. Try to run any consol port on a PC with an x1800 equivalent, set the resolution to 720p, the graphics settings to minimum, and you'll end up with a slide show. Consoles are simply more efficient than PCs, and at launch, they'll give you the performance of a 1000k+ PC for half the price.

Regarding using a 6670 equivalent (and the claim that it costs 140$), bare in mind that this is the price of a full card (including heatsink, PCB, Fan, Power connectors .. etc) which includes a profit margin for AIM partners as well. Of course MS/Sony won't be purchasing a full card, rather they would be buying a chipset (and memory chips if those were independent for the GPU, I have no idea how it works), and given the sales volumes expected, I'm pretty sure it'll cost them less than half of that 140$.

Another point, the 6670 is built on 40nm with a generation old architecture, given the long life span of each console, i don't know why would they do that !!! We have 28nm GPUs already, so i don't see any problem why MS shouldn't go for that, especially that by the time of release, it won't cost more to have a GPU of the same size but on a different manufactoring node. And given that a die shrink usually is applied in the middle of the console's life span, I believe the minimum they should go for is a 7770 equivalent.

 

[wolfram23]

OK, i don't understand why does it have to cause such arguements. Try to run any consol port on a PC with an x1800 equivalent, set the resolution to 720p, the graphics settings to minimum, and you'll end up with a slide show. Consoles are simply more efficient than PCs, and at launch, they'll give you the performance of a 1000k+ PC for half the price.

The problem is that you can build a PC for $500 right now that blows that away. Intel G630 sandy bridge on an H61 mATX mobo, 4 gigs DDR3, and anything from a 5770/6770 and up. Cheap case, ~350-450W PSU, and a 500GB HDD and you're done.

If the nextbox has a 6670, and it comes out at $400-500, you would still get a better deal with the PC. I'd wager with the low level access to the 6670 it could run like a 6770 or 6790 PC equivalent, but that's still barely acceptable for 1080p. Most demanding games on that hardware would run at medium.