DD_Bwest said:
Figgycal said:
Just checked out this site: http://www.examiner.com/article/xbox-one-rumors-point-to-a-higher-clock-speed-but-doubtful-on-increase-ram
Here's an excerpt:
"The bump was supposed to have been planned prior to initial reveal. Any actual changes would have taken place during E3 Week. Effectively, the way the RAM is set out in the machine, Microsoft realized they could be more efficient in its use without sacrificing the amount set aside for OS operation. They immediately reacted.
Physical RAM won't be upped in time for November release as it was too late even during initial reveal, but developers are saying, in terms of efficiency of the RAM and the reported yield problems, Microsoft have made some snappy breakthroughs and gave the impression it was a straight up increase in clock speed; hence the rumor."
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It mades its rounds, found its way onto gaf and got torn apart. i believe 2 developers or insiders on the site shot it down. im not sure how legit those 2 are(matt and gopherd), but the rest seem to have listened to them, and the thread got locked not to long later. It could still be true, but im guessing its most likely not.
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Gaf isn't exactly the best source of opinions, even before the DRM debacle.
It sounds plausable that Microsoft would do a straight increase to the GPU. Going from 8 to 12 GB of memory is...very odd. This isn't like Sony, who were always following powers of 2 with their GDDR5 memory so they always had the same number of chips, just doubling in size: this is adding another slot and making it asymmetrical. I know that this can work (my laptop has 6 GB of memory) but my laptop's line also comes with an empty slot and is intended to be upgraded. A console, though? Why would you put an empty RAM slot in a console? You basically have to take the whole product line to task.
The GPU speed, on the other hand, is just a BIOS tweak. I suppose they could do that as part of the post-launch firmware update.
