drkohler said:
Good luck with that turd of an APU that already has a TDP of 100W at 2.9GHz. Three years later now we see how AMD's 8core wonder design processor barely keeps pace with Intel's 4core processors, with larger dies, larger TDP and pretty much everything worse than Intel (or an IBM Power processor) can do on the processor side of things. Even a pruced-up original cell could beat the A8 hands down. Now there must be some very unhappy engineers in the PS4 development group. Their choice of processor - again if we are to believe the rumoured specs - is vastly, and I mean really vastly, inferior to the competitors, and they are the last in the NextGen cycle. I wish them good luck, coming last with inferior specs into a race (of now three competitors) fighting essentially for the same console customers. |
4 core Intel? The 8 core Bulldozer chips can barely compete with a dual core i3 with hyperthreading. Their single threaded performance is truly appalling.
Having said that, they have decent multi-threaded performance, so if games are designed to use multiple threads they may just get away with it. At present, it's rare for a game to use more than 4 threads though. Plus, if the OS is designed with the Bulldozer architecture in mind, they may get some added benefit.
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