The design of the Xbox Next Magnus APU will provide enough flexibility for scaling a stack of systems that will likely compete with pre-built PCs rather than traditional consoles
  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    And I bet even that won’t just play all of my old Xbox and 360 games.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    80 CUs is 7900xt, 4080 level. Would be surprising in APU.

    I just got a 7840hs mini pc with 780m igpu, and oculink for future. Very happy with it as I can play beyond all reason in 1200p high settings compared to 1650s that did 1080p in low settings. 60 fps with amd chill, and mostly under 80C, with few peaks around 85C.

    The 890m, AI370 are $700usd more, and under 25% improved gpu. 2x or 3x the 890m gpu performance can be acquired for $700 oculink solution.

    80CU APU, is going to be priced higher than AI 395’s 40 CU APU, which is already priced shockingly high. The next Xbox being a full PC can justify pricing, but usual gaming console pricing model is break even based on selling locked in games (razor blades) at high prices. 395 use case has mostly been to have a very large ram LLM at relatively slow speed. APUs for relatively portable mini pc mid range GPU tasks with external GPU enhancement for “desktop scenario” seems like a sweet spot, or laptop with mobile gpu for more combined portable performance per $, seems like it would always have an edge over “bleeding edge APU” for most people.