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fillet said: I didn't know about the different APU, thought that it was just that Microsoft was using an inferior version of the same base generation APU, like say a 7950 vs a 7970 graphics card. Do you have a link as quite interested to read up on that, is it a difference size manufacturing process or something as a less powerful APU should surely be smaller if smae manufacturing process? (Sorry I'm not that clued up these days on the technical stuff with the next gen consoles). |
The GPU is weaked and cheaper into the Xbone APU but everything else is expensive...
Xbone APU (5 billions transistors, ~450mm²)
+ CPU 8-core Jaguar
+ GPU 12CUs
+ 256bits Memory Controller
+ 4 DataMoves units
+ 32MB eSRAM
PS4 APU (3 billions transistors, ~250mm²)
+ CPU 8-core Jaguar
+ GPU 18CUs
+ 256bits Memory Controller
The biggest difference between APU is the 4 DataMoves units and 32MB of eSRAM... only the eSRAM is close to 2 billion transistors (40% of the Xbone APU).
The size are my estimates based in the official transistors counts... 450mm² vs 250mm².
Think like the Xbone have a "PS3 Cell" APU and PS4 have a "normal PC" APU.
