XBONE having problems with eSRAM yield. Crazy Buttocks confirms.

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walsufnir said:

Slimebeast said:
This is hilarious.

If it's true like Ethomaz said, that the Xbone APU is more expensive than the PS4 APU and will remain so over the whole generation, and yet the PS4 is 50% more powerful, now that must be seen as a serious engineering failure.

I'm so pissed off. How can they fail so bad?

I want xbone to be able to give PS4 a match, a good fight. Not become laughing stock.

 

It's not the apu, it is the whole chip with APU, memory controller, move units and esram. Of course this is more expensive.

All right, the whole chip.

But it's the same problem - how can something be "of course more expensive" and at the same time weaker than the competition?

What's the benefit of this design decision? That the machine will be able to communicate faster with separate OPs (which makes it fast to switch between different programs, like gaming, Kinect, Skype, TV etc)? That's the only argument I've heard so far.