This is what the PS4 and Xbox One should really be afraid of

By Hugh Langley

It’s that time of year again, where Imagination Technologies announces its plans to make your gaming graphics look even more awesome, and we translate all the numbers and letters to deliver the cold, hard facts.

This year is a big one – Imagination is introducing a new family of GPUs called the Series7XT, consisting of five different variants.

If you want to get really technical, we could tell you about how the new family scales from two clusters to 16 clusters, but we’ll just point you in the direction of Imagination’s blog and let you read the nitty gritty details yourself.

What we will tell you is what all of this means: Imagination’s new GPUs are good news for affordable gaming and potentially bad news for the PS4 and Xbox One.

As Imagination’s Alexandru Voica told TechRadar, the new GPUs have the potential “to offer the performance of the current-gen consoles, but at a lower price point.”

That will be best achieved through the highest-powered GPU, the PowerVR GT7900, but all of them will make high-end gaming less costly, most notably on Google’s Android consoles.

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Source: techradar.com – Gaming