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

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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

Hyper threading doesn't mean a core can run two threads instead of one though. 

Secondly, not a lot of changes would be made on the hardware side if Sony does this. and by changes I mean the only thing we should expect to see more of is the GPU. the CPU will just be clocked higher. 

I also think that a lot of people are getting carried away with how Sony could possibly implement 4k. I don't see it being possible to render games internally at 4k unless Sony plans on making $800+ hardware. They could however natively render the games at 1080p then upscale it internally to output in 4k with a few API based tricks to polish the image. Then end product will not be as good as native 4k, but it would seem. etter than 1080p....