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HollyGamer on 10 January 2020
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Trumpstyle said:
Intrinsic said:

There is absolutely nothing to prove nor confirm what sony is going to use with regards to their CU count.

The only thing that the leaks really suggest is that sony had dev kits or engineering samples out there earlier. That's not indicative of final hardware, but just saying that sony wanted devs to be able to get on actual next-gen development earlier and test out other more exotic components of their hardware.

If you ask me, my money would be on the GPU CU count in the PS5 being at something like 40(44) or 44(48). I expect MS to go with a 52(56) layout.

It just makes no sense that there could b such a discrepancy in CU count between the two to the tune of 36(40) and 52(56). Even if Sony is going the higher clocks route. The only way that makes sense is if they are also going the $399 route.

I also expect Sony to go with overall less RAM than whatever MS goes with, so something like 16GB for sony vs 20GB for MS, and sony's reason for this would because they would have the better or faster SSD. I expect Sony to go with faster GDDR6 chips than MS though.

The github leak clearly says PS5 is 36CU and I think that is fine. Based on all the leaks I think we are looking at:

PS5, 300mm2, 36(40)CU, Tsmc 7nm euv and for Xbox series X 350mm2, 52(56)CU also with tsmc 7nm euv. It's very likely that Wccftech and Eurogamer got the die size for Xbox series X wrong.

And I don't think 40(44) CU layout is possible based on looking at Navi10 and Navi14.

The Github leak is not the indication that the final console will be using that setup. It clearly a very old test without context and without any concrete info. many number and data that came are inaccurate and contradicted, also AMD masked their GPU/CPU/APU  id and chip ID to confuse data miners. 

Even Komachi, Tum Appisak and others data miners  has explained that their data are from very old test back from early 2017  early 2018. A lot of thing has change in 2019 to 2020.

Also even if Sony are targeting 9 teraflop it will not work with 2 Ghz of 36 CU. It will burn the chip and super inefficient and will be more expensive then using 52 CU run at lower clock speed to achieved 9 Teraflop. 

Another prove is the chip size you mentioned is incorrect, You are using Aquazhi leaker number on comparing  Arden (350 mm2) with Oberon (300mm2). Arden actually around 410 mm2 (from Scarlet Engine Phils shows in His Twitter profile). So we still don't know how big PS5  APU is or which APU Sony will be using for.

Even if Aquazhi is correct with 15% different size with Arden and Oberon , Sony APU are still able to fit more CU more then 36 CU. If The Info from Windows Central  are true that Arden are using 56 active CU (from total 60 Cu) then with 15% smaller die size on Oberon, Oberon will still able to fit around 52 Cu with 48 Active. 

Also alot of trustworthy insider mentioned that both console will be very  close in teraflop number and performance , the difference will be on secret sauce and other methode and games exclusives and service. 

It's to early to make conclusion.