Xbox 720 To Use Raedon 6000


Submitted by UnashamedVandal; January 25, 2012
Plenty of rumours have been floating around about the possibility of next generation consoles and what they could include; this has lead to this latest piece of information. Apparently Microsofts next generation console will feature a Raedon 6000 series GPU; this rumour has come from IGN who state that a source close to the development of the up and coming console suggested this is in fact the case. Although we understand that the Xbox ‘720 will be roughly 6 times the amount more powerful the its predecessor, we fail to understand why Microsoft wouldnt use the 7000 series instead of the year old card which can be picked up for somewhere around £50. This is especially surprising considering Sony has already hinted that their next console will by far be the most powerful and will have the capabilities to completely out perform the competition. Let me know your thoughts



Tags: 6000, Hardware, Microsoft, Next Generation, Raedon, Specs, Xbox 720



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# Guest 2012-01-25 07:26
Ya what's up with that? Probably gonna be alot cheaper than the ps4. Whitch is disappointing but I'm ps guy myself. They should be making monster machine with like i7 CPU with like four graphics cards on SLI with liquid cooling; ) look at me over here day dreamin again:D

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# MHazell 2012-01-25 15:56

That would be awesome. I would be totally worth the money then. I'd get it. I do like electronics that completely outpreform their comptetition.


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# Guest 2012-01-25 22:33
I think IGN got the story wrong. If you check what the source informant said in the link, he stated it will use AMD Southern Islands GPU. That's the 7000 series not the 6000.

I think IGN is confused. Not surprising. ;)

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# Guest 2012-01-26 04:49

Why would you put a i7? That would be waste of processor. and SLI? More like crossfire, Nvidia sucks dick.


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# Guest 2012-01-26 04:52

I wouldn't be too surprized if there is a little FUD factor in play here with 'development platform' 720 shipped with 6000 series then the actual production using the newer (& faster) 7000 series.  Why Microsoft would allow their next gen box to be so squarely beaten by the competition doesn't make much sense since they need to get 5 years or so out of the new platform to really start making money off the new platform.

If however they are taking more of a PC approach - with the 720 out this year, the 1440 (or whatever they call it) out in a couple of years rather than 5 years, etc. then using the older lest costly chip would make sense.

What I have never understood about game consoles is why unlike PCs they don't release a 'faster' model with higher frame rate each year or so so those who want the 'fastest' can upgrade frequently.  Then those who don't care as much about absolute top performance can simply stay with the older machine.  Then in games - like with pc games - you could enable or disable enhanced graphics depending upon how fast your hardware is.  For example - 3d mode being only available on faster game boxes.

Maybe moving to a 'standard' video platform like the Radeon is a move in this direction.


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# DrGazolla 2012-01-26 05:19

that would be awesome, i just don't think it would be a good deal for sony, Nintendo kinda like proved that consummers like things that are different, i guess the money will be on the powerful + different console.

maybe kinect will be microsoft's strongest weapon.


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# Guest 2012-01-29 04:33

probably means MS is overconfident about US sales expectations or wants to once again create a system for less than Sony and outsell them for the first half of the next console generation.


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# Guest 2012-01-29 19:01
That awsome rlly good gaming process or idea

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