| Soleron said: It's a cost saving measure and it reduces power consumption. Good all round. The "front side replacement bus" is really not an innovation. It's like, if they had a high-speed connection between CPU and GPU that would increase performance quite a bit - and that's bad, because the X360 has to perform the same as all previous 360s. So they add latency (lag) to the system by simulating the data going off the CPU and back on to the GPU like it used to. In the desktop (AMD's Fusion and Intel's Clarkdale) processors they just put a fast interconnect in because obviously they want more performance. And that will increase performance compared to two seperate chips, as long as the connection to GPU memory is as good as GDDRx was. Up next in this conference is AMD's new architectures (Bulldozer and Bobcat). Bobcat looks very very impressive (a chip that's netbook cost and size and power consumption but performs like a desktop dual-core and has graphics as good as low-end discrete). |
yeah no one really cares about Intel's solutions.... their GPU sucks nuts... I'm excited to see what AMD does they're most likely going to provide the GPU(maybe CPU that would be sweet) on the next Xbox
