Nvidia: Consoles to have better graphics than PCs? Pssh

The possibility of consoles topping PCs in graphical fidelity is nil, according to Nvidia.

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Speaking to Australia’s PC Power Play in an interview posted recently, Tony Tamasi, Nvidia senior vice president of content and technology, said that “it’s no longer possible for a console to be a better or more capable graphics platform than a PC.”

“Nvidia spends $1.5 billion per year Continue reading

Xbox One APU Co-designed by AMD

microsoft-xbox-one-4842_610x407On 21st of May Microsoft unveiled new gaming console Xbox One capable of high end gaming and multi-tasking.

Both Wired and PC Magazine report that the console will be based on an APU co-designed by AMD and Microsoft containing eight x86 CPU Cores, a DirectX 11.1 GPU similar to the Radeon 7790, and 32 MB of high bandwidth embedded ESRAM memory. The chip will also contain the controller logic and the audio processors, and the GPU and CPU cores Continue reading