Microsoft to unlock more GPU power for Xbox One developers

[Dark_Feanor]

ethomaz said:

Machiavellian said:

Joe, I am messing with ethomaz.

As to the 10%, didn't MS get 6.6 with their GPU uptick so its like 4% ;)

I guess it is not even exactly 10%. It is 1 CU from the 12... ~8.3%. I can't other way to reserve GPU resources in AMD GCN becasue each CU is complete and can act like one unit (It have SPs, ROPs, TMUs, etc... it is a mini GPU).

I see no reason why CUs have to be statically allocated. They are not CPU unities in the way CPU cares are reserverd for IO operations, they don´t have to share memory or have any stack control.

If they are statically allocated there is no way Microsoft ever unlock any more power for games. They would optimize was they want and only background, snap and swap features would improve performance.