drkohler on 08 November 2013
| fallen said: Both SOCs being around 360 mm means both SOC's should cost about the same to fab (manufacture). But X1 still uses far cheaper DDR3 vs GDDR5 on PS4. |
You can use the 170BGA carriers next to the SoC to estimate sizes. The gddr5s are 12mm*14mm. I get around 19mm*19mm for the APU chip carrier, so the die size should be around 290mm^2, give or take 10%. As expected, around 20-25% less than XBox One die size.
