| Cthulhu said: Well those spec seem real, and i believe MS will also house 8gb GDDR5 of RAM.. Anyway the differences of the 2 consoles will be minor....now where that leaves WiiU? |
Its not that simple. If the rumors were true at one point. MS designed an Apu and included 32 MB Esram in it. Thats a huge chunk of silicon. But it was the only way MS was able to include 8gb DDR3 because without the Esram the GPU would not get data fast enough to max it out. MS planned early for the 8gb basically the whole system is build around it. Back then 8gb GDDR5 was not even an option. Sony planned with 2-4gb and lucked out that just recentlx the chip density of GDDR5 increased.Durangos Gpu was slimmed down so the 32 MB Esram would fit on the chip.
Sony just lucked out they had no Esram so they were able to put all of the additional Silicon in more Computing power.
The difference in rumored specs is bigger than in the PS3 to 360 and this time around Sony has basically just stronger but architecturally identical parts.
For MS to change right now would mean atleast 6 months delay. The system is perfectly balanced its useless to change one thing without changing everything else. GDDR5 would be not much use for a weaker Gpu and the Esram would cost Billions and wouldn't be necessary.
They would have to take out the 32 Mb Esram and add a new Memory Controller change Ram types and beef up the Gpu to make use of the Ram bandwith.
If MS hasn't changed their stuff months ago before Sony came with 8gb GDDR5 and GDDR5 Chips increased their capacity its too late to redesign everything.
I think that one realistic option for MS would be to take out 4 Jaguar Cores of the APU and use two APUs instead of one. This way it would be 1.8 Tflops vs 2,4 Tflops and 64 MB Esram . 32 Rops vs 32 Rops, 18 vs 24 CUs.
But I think MS won't care to change anything the power difference is substantial between PS4 and 720 however most consumers don't care enough for graphics that this will matter much. Xbox was also clearly superior but people still bought PS2s.
