Xbox One CPU Clocks In At ~1.9GHz

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Pemalite said:

curl-6 said:
Can someone explain to me, as I'm pretty ignorant in this area; how does the PS4/Xbone's Jaguars compare to PS3's Cell and 360's Xenon? How much more powerful are the next gen CPUs? Ten times as strong? Five times? Two times?

It depends.
The Cell was *very* good at certain types of equations, not all.

The problem is, game engines use differing types of math to achieve a certain result, Jaguar on the otherhand is a more balanced CPU.

To simplify it... The Cell has a high theoretical maximum performance ceiling, but it's unrealistic to achieve it over long periods of time.
Jaguar can achieve a set level of performance constantly, there aren't any tricky nuances.

So, to put it in perspective, in a Race the Cell will run at 20km's an hour and peak at 40km's an hour every now and then, Jaguar will run at 30km's an hour for the entire race, in the end over time, Jaguar gets more work done.

It's difficult to peg in numbers of how much faster Jaguar is, because... Well. They're completely different, flops isn't a good performance metric because CPU's and Game engines do more than just deal with floating point.

I realize it's not a simple matter of which is faster, but does that mean that overall Jaguar is not a massive power leap over Cell?