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DarkD said:
What a ridiculous thing to have a discussion over. A CPU is not the bottleneck in a console. It is the absolute farthest things from a bottleneck. CPU's are fast, and they almost never get used fully. 99/100 times you won't see a difference in performance if you upgrade your CPU.

The CPU is the thing which performs calculations, but the bottleneck is bringing things TO THE CPU!!! Thus, things like memory, cache, solid state drives, system bus, and etc, ALL OF THOSE are designed with the sole purpose of bringing things to the CPU faster.

They pretty much hit the ceiling with CPU usage last gen. It's a non-issue this gen.


Except not. CPU is incredibly important in a gaming environment.

That's almost 50% difference in frame-rate there with the same graphics card when using a better processor. The AMD rig even loses to much less powerful cards thanks to the underpowered CPU. Considering PS4/XOne CPU isn't anywhere near a A10-5750M/4600M, I can barely imagine how much it's bottlenecking the graphics card in those new consoles.