New Playstation codenamed 'Orbis' reported to feature AMD GCN GPU plus AMD x86 4-core

[caveman-jim]

Our main source supplied some basic specs for the console, but as the future is always in motion, bear in mind these could easily change between now and the Orbis' retail release. Still, if you'd like to know what developers are being told to plan for now, here you go.

• AMD x64 CPU
• AMD Southern Islands GPU

The former, that's largely something we've heard before, but the latter is interesting. That's the name given to many of AMD's 2012 roster of high-end PC cards. The PS4's GPU in particular, we're told, will be capable of displaying Orbis games at a resolution of up to 4096x2160, which is far in excess of the needs of most current HDTV sets.

Read more at Kotaku

[Nunz]

Just note on a type - Playstation is spelled incorrectly.

[QUINTIX]

three strikes

Wow... NVIDIA burned Sega, Microsoft, and Sony. That takes talent.

[caveman-jim]

Wow... NVIDIA burned Sega, Microsoft, and Sony. That takes talent.

It's not possible AMD won those designs on their own merit?

[QUINTIX]

If that where the case, Sony would of gone with ATI in the first place. Betcha the PS4 will not use rambus either, and rambus will sue.

[guest]

I bet the GPU has 128MB of RAM or less. Consoles always seem to have such low amounts of RAM. 4096x2160? Sony said the PS3 could do 1080p. Can it?