Xbox720 clocked speed low?

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ninetailschris said:

Quality over quantity.

And makes the CPUs that are not on the level of intel asks most people here there using intel.

jaguar in all of reality is decent CPU  if clocked at 1.6 will have good performance but its insane at all.

pc users on here wouldn't use because intel is the insane while clocked hi.

believe Xbox is clocking lower so they can lower the heat.

but like wiiu if they use the CPU with it being on mcm chip can get good performance but if you thinking this is going to destroy the wiiu CPU you may want to reconsider your thoughts.

Jauger isn't mind blowing at all and with 8 cores it isn't going to help make this beast system which I haven't even heard the jaguar can do.

please post a link to a 8 core jaguar so I can see what your seeing.

That post is hard to read man. And the CPU doesn't have too be really powerful in the PC space to be very powerful in the console space. Even at 1.6GHz a 8 core CPU is pretty impressive. Tho at a guess I would say many devs may prefer the PS4's supposed quad core design, in terms of ease of use. 

Kaveri (low power Steamroller bassed CPU cores) and Jaguar cores are aimed at low end/mobile PC space, they use low power, low heat and are relatively cheap. 

The theory is that the custom SoC that MS commisioned will utilize 8 x86 cores, there have also been several sources that suggest that there will be some kind ARM core in the mix as well. Now obviously too have 8 CPU cores they will be low power low frequency cores too keep within the power and heat requirements of a console. I think Kavari (steamroller cores) is much more likely than Jaguar tho as Jaguar cores are probably a bit too low end, but I'm just going off speculation I have seen and several people have made a case for jaguar cores even if I don't think it's likely myself. Most of the rumours have suggested some kind of APU/SoC design which fits with an AMD fusion bassed design like Kavari. The low clock makes sense considering the reports of low yeilds for the chip in the next Xbox, lower clock rate should help improve yeilds, tho they may increase the clock rate for final hardware if they can improve yeilds in time.

Now if we look at Kavari specs 

Kaveri (28  nm)

Steamroller-based APUs will be divided into versions for specific price-points and markets:

Kaveri APU covers the A10, A8, and A6 series of the 3rd generation APUs.

Kaveri is to contain an ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore as part of AMD's use of TrustZone IP from ARM.

Kaveri will contain GCN-based graphics, although it is unknown whether these will be Southern Islands or Sea Islands based GCN.

Includes support for DDR3-2133

Seems to fit the bill, as a base for whatever custom design they are cooking up for the next Xbox. 

The rumour for the AMD 8 core CPU actualy suggested that the latest dev kitts have been using a (presumably heavily underclocked underclocked to 1.6GHz) AMD 8 core FX CPU. And the Dev kitt before that supposedly had an 8 core intel CPU, assumedly as AMD didn't have any 8 core CPUs to use as a stand in at the time. So this suggests that the final CPU architecture isn't available yet, hence the further speculation that they are targeting a chip for the final hardware that is not produced yet, like Kavari. 

It's all just speculation tho.