Peter Crisp wrote:so the rumours seems to suggest this will be about 14TF.
Is that a lot these days? The One X is 6TF so having a next gen console be 14 doesn't seem all that outrageous but how hard is it to build a PC with 14TF?
Are we talking £1500 or £750 for a PC with that spec?
It's hard to quantify the price of a PC with a similar spec. If the metric they're using is simply the calculation for the GPU then this level of performance is inline with a slightly overclocked 1080ti which is just over 11TF normally and can hit 14TF when OC'd. The RRP for the 1080ti when it came out was starting from £700.
PCs then have many other factors which make them faster (or slower) - CPU, RAM, NvME SSDs etc. This aspect of a PC build could cost you anything from £300 more to £1500 more. So it's a variable and not a like for like comparison.
If they're hitting that kind of performance power on the next gen console then you're going to see very nice looking native 4K games. 60fps should become more common place on games that aren't pushing the boundries of photorealism.
The thermal solution will have to be good for this kind of computer. It's 7nm so will run cooler but console are also normally very small with bad air circulation. Thermal bottlenecking may be the main limiting factor for the consoles.
The other thing that will be interesting to see is if they can actually make the machines fast enough to meet demand. Intel have had a bit of a shitshow trying to get their 10nm processors (arguably the same as the 7nm we're talking about here) out the door and so far the only mass produced 7nm processors have been for mobile devices. This is why there's zero chance of seeing 2019 consoles.