Rumour: PS4 Receiving Massive Performance Boost From Team ICE [UPDATED}

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BenVTrigger said:

GribbleGrunger said:

BenVTrigger said:
Ok all these rumors about magic hardware in the cons. Nees needs to go away.

This has nothing to do with secret hardware, this is to do with the ICE improving the coding/drivers.

Improving drivers and coding will never have a major impact on console hardware performance. The people who believe these kinds of rumors dont understand how hardware works.

Consoles by default have incredibly low access APIs and in that manner already are as close to "coding to the metal" that youll get. Thats not to say we wont see some improvement / refinement but Thuway is acting like this is a huge move and massive power boost. Refining an API in a console will not do that 

 

That's suposing that the current drivers and APIs are in a good state. Some months ago they improved surface tiling/detiling performance by 10 to 100X. Probably the current APIs for both consoles are pretty rushed and with room to mature. Things like CPU cache can get massive improvements if you know exactly how they work and avoid problems like excessive cache misses (as an example).

I'm not saying the rumour is true, but if the API isn't mature (as it isn't now for a recently launched console), massive boosts can be seen after replacing bad code / generic code by something more optimized in several parts of the API.