PS4 SDK Update Unlocked 7th CPU Core For Gaming

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captain carot said:

walsufnir said:

Doubtful. While we don't know how much more heat it creates, I think Sony's design is built specifically for the thermal design the PS4 currently has. Such an upclock would also mean that you upclock old consoles which can already get really loud when running at 1.6 GHz so I guess there is not much space for more heat.

 

Upclocks are problemativ with power consumption as well. If you keep the Vcore a 10% upclock might already need more than 10% more.

If you need a higher Vcore you can easily end at 20%+ higher energy consumption for the CPU. So more work for the PSU, more work for the cooling and some CPU's might not even run stable at that core clock.

 

That is why MS decided to check higher clockrates before Xbox One release. And even they only clocked slightly higher, though every MHz especially on the GPU would have helped reduce the gap.

Actually MS alos increased the frequency of the GPU but it's only about 6%.