Digital Foundry vs. the Xbox One architects... or the end of the secret sauce craziness

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drkohler said:

Unfortunately most people still think that powerof(8G fast ddr3 + fast esram) < powerof(8G low power gdd5). In truth it is exactly the opposite.
MS was simply caught offguard by the 8G gddr5 being available in 2013. They bet on gddr5 being too low capacity in 2013/14 and went ddr3 since they always planned with 8G (SOny planned with 4G).

That's a fact.

The MS best scenario was 8GB DDR3 + 32MB eSRAM vs. 4GB GDDR5.

The 8GB GDDR5 from Sony get everybody in surprise... a lucky over the evolution of the GDDR5 manufacture.