Shinobi-san on 02 December 2012
| M.U.G.E.N said: umm actually isn't this the latest 'rumor' Playstation 4 is using Thebe-J which hasn't finished yet nor is it related to the Jaguar or Trinity or Kaveri architectures. The only one that is showing any signs of finalization is Xbox's Kryptos which is a >450 mm² chip. To get back on Thebe-J it was delayed from Trinity side-by-side development to Kaveri side-by-side development. I assume if they are going to use Jaguar it is going to be in a big.LITTLE formation. Which will have them in a configuration where the Jaguar portion will control all of the system, os, etc stuff that generally isn't compute intensive. While the Thebe portion will control all of the gaming, hpc, etc. stuff that is generally compute intensive. Since, each year the performance part of the Playstation Orbis was upgraded it is safe to assume that they are going for an APU with the specs. First: A8-3850 + HD 7670 400 VLIW5 + 480 VLIW5 => 880 VLIW5 -> VLIW4 => 704 Second: A10-5700 + HD-7670 384 VLIW4 + 480 VLIW5 => 864 VLIW4/5 -> VLIW4 => 768 I have heard that the third generation of the test Orbis uses an APU with GCN2. Unknown APU + HD8770 384 GCN2 + 768 GCN2 -> 1152 GCN2 It is assumed that the APU only has four cores because AMD doesn't plan to increase the core count other than the GPU cores from now on. via neogaf/jeff rigby/anandtechforums |
Those latest rumours are really interesting don't you think MUGEN?
We could be looking a major upgrade if its true. Also since the devkits seem to be getting more powerfull as time goes by im really hopefull. It also seems that AMD has done some nice work with regards to keeping the power down to a minimum.
