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HappySqurriel on 29 January 2013
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haxxiy said:
HappySqurriel said:
Just looking at the specs of the APU demonstrates that this rumor is 100% BS ...

The A10-5800K (AMD's current top of the line APU) uses 100 Watts of power and is (roughly) 1/3 the processing power of this APU, so either Sony's processor will start fires or the rumor is crap.


You clearly didn't do your research very well did you. The A10-5800K is a 3.8GHz heavyweight that is basically a standard mid-high range PC CPU with a 7660 embedded and even the chip as a whole has 100W of TDP (which is not the same as power consumption by the way) but the ammount of heat to be dissipated.

A mobile GPU packing over 2 TFLOPS from AMD has a TDP of only 75W and a Jaguar CPU core consumes no more than 5W each. I doubt the system will be close to using even 200W as a whole. 

And just so you can compare the GPUs inside the PS3 and X360 used over 110W at launch... can't actually get a decent source but by 2005-2006 GPUs didn't go beyond 2 GFLOPS per watt, and the X360 and the PS3 packed 240 and 228 GFLOPS in their GPUs, respectively.

Oh, and that's four and then some times better than the GPU in the Wii-U. Roughly a Dreamcast versus Xbox difference. Deal with it.

Suppose they do go with their top of the line mobile GPU, which is large and expensive chip, and then add an 8 core Jaguar CPU to it ... Then Sony has a nice 115 Watt APU that will be perfect for them to release in a $600 system.

Seriously, expect about 1/2 of what this rumor is suggesting and you won't be disappointed when Sony actually announces their system.