| nanarchy said: BULLSHIT. the CPU is not some magical beast optimised for gaming at all. That is the easiest item to outperform with a relativley cheap quad core i5. You also don't have 8GB GDDR5 allocated to the GPU, it is a unified memory model so that OS has to live in and use that RAM too. 8GB DDR3 + a decent GPU with 2-3GB DEDICATED of GDDR5 will comfortably outperform it. Without monitor, keyboard etc you should be able to beat performance with budget parts. Add little more though and you can completely blitz it. |
You don't even need a Core i5.
Jaguar is around 10-20% faster than Brazos per core, with 8 cores it would be equivalent to roughly a Dual-Core Hyper-threaded Haswell Core i3.
The reason why PC's have historically required faster CPU's than the console equivalent is because of draw cells, which are soon to be essentially a thing of the past.
Also something to keep in mind is that even AMD's fastest CPU's pale in comparison to even some of Intel's slowest, even with twice the cores in AMD's favour.
Besides the Playstation 4 and Xbox One don't allow for all 8 anemic cores to be used for gaming anyway.
Jaguar is a 2 issue, low clocked, low IPC, small caches (No, L3) with pretty poor Floating Point and Integer units.
It's a budget processor which is designed to be "good enough" not class leading, Microsoft and Sony spent all their transister budgets on the GPU and other subsystems, not the CPU.
If Microsoft and Sony wanted decent CPU performance, they would have to pay for it which is not ideal in a cost sensitive device, which means higher cost consoles for all the consumers who would have then complained untill the cows came home.
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