Mobile devices will be more powerful than PlayStation 4, Xbox One in 2017, ARM forecasts

[joeorc]

elektranine said:

joeorc said:
There is clustering inside their new SOC's, and its just not hyperthreaded. Or virtual cores these are full processing cores.

Already in Samsung galaxy7 it contains a GPU that full supports Vulkan full Api!

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/820

That is the main thing .also take a look at the Ram access speed, and smartphones this year are going to already ship with 8GB of ram!


If you go with A80 single board computing boards pico-itx design boards they are already past the xbox360 & PS3 and the cost is quite a bit cheaper. $72.00 boards brand new.

There is no doubt what Arm holdings is saying is Quite true.

The allwinner A80 is a complete joke. It is used by no major smartphone/tablet manufacturers and is design to be used in multimedia/cable boxes with active coolong and a plugged in power supply not mobile at all. Futher the A80 is less than a third as powerful as the PS3 dont know where your knowledge comes from.

Allwinner A80

 

• 68 gigaflops of single precision floating point performance
• 14.9 GB/s memory bandwidth
• A15 & A7 glued together in attempt to increase performance

PS3

• 228.8 gigaflops of single precision loating point performance
• 25.6 GB/s memory bandwidth
• Word's first 'APU' like hybrid architecture. R&D used by Sony/AMD to later develop APUs
• Cell single precision floating point performance is almost as high as the entire A80 chip (23.04 gigaflops for the CPU only)

In what sane world is the A80 even remotely close to performing close to the PS3?

 

1. Off that was peak performance for the PS3

And 2nd and the snide comment you pointed out is not only incorrect,  its it off the performance index is the A80 is true 8 cores they are not glued together for as an attempt to increase performance it in fact does increase performance, the CPU along with the GPU are all inside stacked in the Soc. No south bridge, no off chip north, no daughter board.

 For instance

 

Ascl example of A80 boards usage of their powerVR GPU's in the SOC.

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PowerVR G6230:  two Series6 USCs – 64 FP32 ALU cores with up to 128 FLOPs per cycle – 64 FP16 ALU cores with up to 192 FLOPs per cycle. That means up to 115.2 FP16 GFLOPS and up to 76.8 FP32 GFLOPS at 600MHz

So no, the PS3 CPU alone does not outperform the entire A80 boards.

Yes the PS3 GPU added in , yes, but this is about performance in how it can operate a year from now on mobile chips and their advancement is increasing fast enough that yes it will in short order even surpass the PS4 and Xbox one on a watt/performance scale yes, no doubt it would. It's not about "raw" performance. In AMD its always been about watt/performance on lower power ,Its based on Watt/performance under certain wattage for mobile's. Which the consoles & PC cannot compete with. Try a console power under 15 Watt's , how much performance could or would you expect? On that much power.

And in that case ARM is indeed correct.