Will AMD be in our future consoles ?

[NayNay1991x]

who thinks AMD will be in our future consoles if so how good do you think it would be if it did have an AMD CPU... i think it would be good with an AMD Athlon FX in an Xbox 360

 

[ulater6000]

I think consoles are moving more in a cell cpu direction.

 

[Seria]

It would be nice if they went AMD, considering AMD's are better gaming processors in the first place.

and no, i really don't want this to turn into a AMD vs Intel thread.

I think consoles are moving more in a cell cpu direction.

what is a cell cpu?

 

[Trifid]

What PS3 has, and I don't think so, too much work and not great at AI. They are really good at running set tasks like Super Pi, so Sony can flog them off to the server computers.

I was expecting the games consoles to be turning to AMD, but the average user will then see 2ghz cores and think it is sh*t.

 

[ShoobieRat]

who thinks AMD will be in our future consoles if so how good do you think it would be if it did have an AMD CPU... i think it would be good with an AMD Athlon FX in an Xbox 360

Probably, since they are cheaper, better for gaming platforms, and AMD is easier to work with as a company.

If you're lucky, they'll also include a punctuation feature in future consoles, too.

 

[NayNay1991x]

well the xbox did rather well with an Intel Chip reasonalbly fast i wud say for a P3

 

[NayNay1991x]

dont you think that the Xbox 360 could of done a better job with a AMD Athlon FX Chipset with a Nvidia 7800GTX x2 now that would be nice with more Embedded Ram

 

[aaronkupen]

Xbox360 uses ATI technology and after their fiasco with nVidia there is no chance that an nvidia card would be used. Also, I'd say the Xbox360 gpu is roughly equal in performance with the 7800gtx. The problem with putting just a plain old 7800gtx in the system is that it is made for computer applications too.
That's why when you check out the specifications on graphics cards in consoles it is rather surprising the quality of of visuals that you see from them. Look at ps2, one wouldn't think by looking at that card that it would be capable of something like MGS3.
So in that regard, it wouldn't be as efficient as a custom gpu build specifically for a console.

Also, putting an fx cpu in the xbox360 would definatley raise the price which is one of their main advantages right now over the PS3.

 

[Tordenskjold]

yeh but also consoles dont deserve AMD.

 

[aaronkupen]

Honestly though, lets put some Conroes in the consoles . They slam any AMD out there.