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Originally Posted by Hollywood Hasney
The only way I could see 4k in games being feasible would be if AMD's new architecture being amazing to make it the same price as a launch PS4 to get a mid range GPU in there again. Nvidia is claiming that their next chip Pascal has 2x the performance at every price level so maybe?
If developers are just being briefed and they don't have dev kits, I'm guessing we'd be 2 years away at the earliest. if AMD's new chips aren't good enough, I could see it still being billed as a 4k device as it outputs in 4k and plays UHD blu rays, but games just run somewhere between 1080p and 4k depending on graphical quality and just upscales.
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Pascal was advertised at 2x performance/Watt compared to Maxwell, and that's not related to what game developers can extract either. The 16nm node brings a TDP decrease so the power consumption will be lower. The performance with the smaller die coming this year won't be 2x that of the GTX 980 Ti or the Titan X by any means. Ditto with AMD and Polaris (14 nm) but these are also smaller dies and definitely won't be enough to do 4k gaming. All this before the part where these are discrete GPUs and not APUs which are what will be used.
4k games at lower settings and frame rates won't look great tbh. I would rather they target 1080p, high or 1440p, mid-high and upscale to 4k rather than native 4k.