VGLeaks: Playstation 4 architecture evolution over time

[Soleron]

hinch said:

Soleron said:

This doesn't show the 2010 rebid, before which it was Intel Larrabee.

"Onion" and "Garlic" don't mean anything special, confirmed by AMD rep when they appeared in Llano in 2011.

Never heard about Sony wanting Larrabee in the PS4. There an article about that?

Also I wonder how the Jaguar cores (8x) stack up against the old steamroller design.

8 Jaguar cores @ 1.6GHz will be weaker than 4 Steamroller cores at >3.5GHz (since 3-4GHz was the Bulldozer design target frequency, operating lower wouldn't make sense even in a console).

Larrabee story: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050851/intel-design-playstation-gpu

The author of this story was the first to say PS4 would use AMD CPU+GPU a year ago. The Larrabee version was ditched at the same time Intel dropped the consumer version because it was too hot/expensive/slow/late. That story also says AMD in Wii and X360 successors.