Rumored specs put Xbox Helix's GPU 40% ahead of PS6 on paper, but TFLOPs don't tell the whole story
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Rumor mill: While Sony's CEO recently admitted that the PlayStation 6's launch date remains undetermined, rumors place both it and the next Xbox console at least a year away, if not two. Speculation about their hardware capabilities has circulated for over a year, and the latest reports suggest that their GPU specifications are locked in.
According to prominent leaker Kepler_L2, Sony and Microsoft have already taped out the graphics chips for the PlayStation 6 and next-generation Xbox, which can theoretically achieve 40 and 56 TFLOPs, respectively. The tipster made the claims amid a discussion about the dangers of relying on simple TFLOP comparisons.
TFLOPs (trillion floating-point operations per second) became a marketing buzzword for console and GPU manufacturers around a decade ago. For example, Microsoft advertised the Xbox One X by highlighting its...
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