Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is 720P30FPS on XBONE confirmed by a Belgium team.

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ethomaz said:

Aura7541 said:

It's not really the cost, but the way the ESRAM is integrated into the GPU/CPU die. MS can increase the amount of ESRAM, but if they do, they have to shrink one of the other two components. In this case, the GPU will be shrunk because the CPU is already small. MS is between rock and hard place with this type of configuration. You either sacrifice GPU power or you sacrifice ESRAM buffer. Neither choice is good.

There is a third option don't use ESRAM.

Not giving the credits to Sony but if what they showed are true they tested many EDRAM configs for PS4 (even 1GB/s) and the results are not good enought... so why MS didn't faced it in project time? What they are expecting?

Actually, that's a very good suggestion

And yeah, I remember seeing Cerny' talk on using 256-bit GDDR5 vs. 128-bit GDDR5 + EDRAM.