| Soleron said: lol if they go AMD they'll have another overhyped disappointment. Sony probably chose this when AMD were promising Bulldozer would be competitive. At least if it's Fusion the graphics will be better integrated than a GPU thrown in at the last minute like PS3. |
The funny thing is Bulldozzer actually has some of the same flaws the the CELL had. As in there isn't branch prediction or cache etc for each core and there are more cores than current software can take advantage of. But bulldozzer has the flaws to a lesser dagree as it's just those things are shared by pairs of cores rather than having one true core handle those things for 7 sub cores. An 4-6 core 2nd (possibly even 3rd if PS4 releases in 2014) gen Bulldozer would kick arse in a console, whether it would be better than a 4-8 core Power 7 chip or a 4 SPU 32 SPE Cell chip tho is a mystery.
I doubt they would go for an x86 CPU tho, seems overkill for a console as most of the instructions are designed for desktop computing situations.
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