Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
I love the "NVIDIA is screwed! All the upcoming consoles will be AMD!" posts.

A. The GPUs in consoles are feeble compared to the GPUs we buy, and they have to make the games playable at 1080P on them. In other words, next gen consoles aren't going look like PhysX tech demos just because they are next gen consoles.

B. The feeble little GPUs in consoles have feeble little CPUs pushing them, and in the console world, your game has to run smooth. The console port games aren't exactly reknowned for pushing computer gaming forward.

C. Last, it's never really mattered much which GPU is in consoles. ATi cards always ran the original Xbox ports and PS3 ports, and NVIDIA runs 360 ports. They have to be coded to run in DirectX, not "OS360" or whatever those things use.

The console factor is very much misunderstood. A console contract means you get to sell a bunch of your lowest end product at razor thin margins, not that "Yay! We win! Our competitor will be gone next year!". Ask intel if they care about not having any CPUs in consoles.
I never said anything of the sort, just because nvidia aren't shipping a consumer high DP part today doesn't mean much, Titan will ship before either console and that's all that matters. Even if nvidia doesn't skew the performance in favour of double precision the card is big enough to do the job.

a) The console GPU's are not feeble in comparison to what's expected of them

b) The CPU's aren't feeble in comparison to what's expected of them

c) Again this wasn't my point, the 680 is only really weak in a single area that didn't matter to gamers, next year it will matter, but it will be replaced long before that tipping point.