PlayStation 4.5 PRICE, RELEASE DATE! - The Know (RUMOUR?)

[Lafiel]

GribbleGrunger said:

Lafiel said:

much of what they say in the video sounds reasonable to be honest, but one thing seemed weird to me

they said the PS4K offers another CPU core for devs to use, but Sony recently unlocked the 7th Jaguar PS4 core to devs, meaning that PS4K would open 8 cores
Sony should still have a core locked for the OS tasks, but having 9 or 10 (if they go back to locking 2) CPU cores on a chip is pretty weird

additionally the Zen architecture uses bigger/stronger cores, so personally I would've expected 4 cores with hyperthreading to replace the 8 low power Jaguar cores in the new APU (I suppose 5 core HT could work if instead of "cores" they actually meant "threads") - shrinking the Jaguar architecture for 14/16nm doesn't make sense when AMD has Zen ready for use in that process

That stuck out to me too. That's one of the reasons I added 'rumour?' to the thread title. Was enabling developers to use the 7th core immediate or was it something they would offer in the future? I can't remember. Perhaps it's now available?

afaik they unlocked the 7th core to devs in nov 2015, so while pretty certainly none of the released games were build around utilizing it, some might have used it to improve performance through patches