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

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drkohler said:

adriane23 said:
What I took from this is that they felt using ESRAM was a more energy and cost efficient approach to GDDR5.

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).

Are you speaking in terms of power consumption or power capabilities?

If the former, I encourage you to clarify with supporting evidence for your claim. The impression I got from this article is that MS believes their combo is more energy efficient, but you declare the opposite.

Surely these technical fellows have credentials far superior to yours and these forum goers?