PS4 Specs "leaked" by fudzilla

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superchunk said:

Scoobes said:
I doubt it's only clocked at 2.9 GHz. Even the Cell processor is clocked at 3.2GHz and from my understanding the 3850 APU is relatively easy to overclock. I reckon a 3.2GHz APU minimum with Sony's own custom cooling solution.

I also doubt they're using a 3850 based chip. The CPU architecture in that chip is anchient. If they go the APU route they'll probably be looking at Trinity based APUs which are based on Piledriver (2nd gen Bulldozer/FX chips with a 7 series GPU). Would make more sense having two 7 series GPUs in the same console in crossfire too.

I suspect we'll see 1-2 Gb of total RAM. 2Gb should really be the minimum imo.

Heat.

AMD CPUs run hot and downlocking it to a level that is still good enough while greatly improving the heat generation is solid gain.

That's an advantage the others have when going with IBM Power 7's.

I get the feeling Sony would be far better at comming up with a cooling solution than AMDs stock coolers (the original PS3 had a liquid cooling solution). Even with off the shelf cooling the 3850 can overclock to 3.2 GHz. With Sony and AMD engineers working on a specific solution for both cooling and gaining higher frequency, I doubt they'd restrict themselves to only 2.9GHz.

I still doubt they'd use a 3850. If they use an APU it'll most likely be trinity based.

Alternatively (and more likely imo), they'll go with a Piledriver CPU, 77xx based GPU, with shared RAM and look at integrating them into an APU within 1-2 years.