It's fascinating to see the slow-moving incremental reveals this time around. While the XSX reveal at The Game Awards was a clear step forward, it was still just matching the PS5 reveals to date in some areas (console name, controller details) and raising the ante with a physical design, an in-engine teaser, and some vague marketing language. Still no date, no price, no concrete specs. So far the only time one of the two players put news out that wasn't countered by the other was with Microsoft's GDDR6 nod at E3.
So lacking real concrete specs we're stuck trying to decide what outlets that claim to have details are reliable, only most of them seem to be guessing much like us. DF's reluctance to immediately accept 2x GPU as confirmation of 12TF struck me as unnecessarily cautious until I realized Microsoft is also touting 4x CPU, and thats clearly not based on something equally simplistic like clock speed. What if they're citing 2x and 4x based on benchmarks they've chosen? Apple does something similar all the time to compare across architectures. Then it will be nearly impossible for us to guess a teraflop equivalent without knowing quite a bit more.
As usual, it's back to the waiting game to see who is going to put a few more chips in the pot, and when exactly someone might decide to go all-in.