Adinnieken said:
ShinmenTakezo said:
I think some people fail to understand what exactly is going on with this. The APU in the One is made by AMD. It is not MS' tech, it is AMD's. MS' apu was not built MS. MS had AMD make a custom apu. This is exactly the same thing Sony did. MS does not have HUMA or anything similar. Either you have it or you don't. There is no in between. You can't sort of have heterogeneous unified memory access. This isn't software. It isn't just hardware. It is a different approach to computing. A more efficient way that allows CPU and GPU to cancel each others bottlenecks out. With current architecture you have to communicate with the CPU and GPU seperately. When data needs to get passed between the two, it has to be copied. HUMA eliminates that so one algorithm can communicate with CPU and GPU at the same time. Impossible without HUMA. |
You have software, code, in hardware. If you think otherwise you're fooling yourself. Both GPUs and CPUs have code associated with them that determines how they operate. Microsoft or AMD could easily alter AMD's hUMA for Microsft's specific needs. Hell, that's one of the reasons why Microsoft went with AMD in Gen7 for their GPU. AMD would customize the processor based on their needs.
Nothing you've said can substantially contradict what Microsoft has stated nor that the Xbox One APU doesn't have hUMA. The development documentation states it. Microsoft's Marc Whitten has said it. So who are you to contradict it? Because a guy from AMD who may not be aware of the design of Microsoft's APU? Is there the distinct possbility that Microsoft may have a NDA agreement with AMD where AMD can't reveal any details about the APU before launch? Which might just justify why AMD made a retraction with no comment instead of elaborating? Seems entirely logical to me.
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Not to mention, AMD just retracted their statements for being inaccurate.
But the Sony fanboys will just say MS paid them since they say that to anything.
