Hynad said:
ethomaz said:
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slowmo said:
Contrary to Ethomaz's belief that this will be a big benefit now, this is in actual fact, a feature that will be great in the long run for optimization rather than short term while developers are still working to understand the architecture. I don't buy his comment on lifting it above PC GPU's because as you say the stronger CPU in most gaming PC's means they dont need the help from the GPU (as the lack of use of Nvidias tech as proven).
This is nothing to do with gimping the CPU though and is a very clever tweak to add flexibility at a low cost that could be of great benefit in the hands of the right developers.
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I agree with you... I just disagree that the Jaguar is that bad... I think devs can use the CPU for a lot of tasks.
Rember the PS4 CPU is a 8-core Jaguar running at 1.6Ghz.
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The actual clock of the PS4 CPU hasn't yet been confirmed, as far as I know.
Here's the official spec sheet:
There was a rumor that Sony wanted to boost the CPU clock to 2ghz.
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Due to efficiency and ease to code, it's better to clock the CPU twice the speed of the GPU, hence we would have 1.6GHz CPU and 800MHz GPU.
But as they annouced 1.84TFLOPS for the GPU it implied a GPU with a 800MHz final frequency and by simple deduction a CPU of 1.6Ghz.
If they overclocked the CPU to 2 GHz it would complicate the work of the developers and raise the heat produced by the CPU not in a linear way. But a lot much more heat for the PS4 to dissipate.
So it is very improbable that they decided to overclock the CPU.
