i told you all. i fucking called it. basing your predictions on the 5700xt tdp was a colossal fucking mistake. it was as presumptuous as looking at the vega 7 tdp and saying 8 gcn tflops is the best you can do in a 7nm console.
Team thermals and team realistic just never bothered to take this stuff into account. absolutely baffling imo. but im not complaining. my 14 tflops future is looking pretty fucking bright right about now.
lets pull up the simulating gonzalo chart and apply the 50% perf/watt increase to these numbers to get an idea of what it takes to get 12 and 14 tflops.
so now all of a sudden, that 2.0 ghz that was taking 161w should now take only 106w. zen 2 should only be 20w. maybe even less. gddr6 and the rest should be 30-50w and you can have a nice 170w console.
if MS is at 56 cu at 1.7 ghz, they are only around 97w for 12 tflops.
now the question is why would sony go with an 106w 9 tflops gpu when they can go with a 12 tflops 97w gpu. is 15% more die space really that expensive?
56 cu at 2.0 tflops should be around 148w. thats a 200-220w console. i really dont see why they cant do this.
edit: this also proves you wouldnt need a super expensive fancy cooling solution to cool that gpu. unless its really 56 cus running at 2.0 ghz.
edit 2: my math was off. fixed it.
P.S DF with their 350w console predictions. sigh. just a big fat sigh.
