drkohler said:
Please read about gddr5 memory design. Then please check the scans of the ms and Sony apu. You can scale both pictures to 100% and then overlay the ddr3 and the gddr5 controler areas. You will note there is a drastic size difference and an even more drastic complexity difference between the two technologies. If you insist "it's mostly assumptions" I can't help here. The motherboard has to be redesigned due to the different requirements of how the technology works (look at the boards and think about all those resistors around the XBox One apu which are missing on the PS4's board (and what clamshell mode implicates on the board design). |
The big problem is that this topic is way beyound most people in this thread. Sometimes no matter how much you explain a topic people just cannot give up their opinion when its foundation is built on gut feelings instead of fact.
