| Conina said: So an ARM-SoC more powerful than the PS4-APU? That would be a big leap to the fastest ARM-SoCs available now (Tegra X1 + Apple A9X). I don't think so. |
| OdinHades said: There is no ARM chip that is more powerful than the PS4. Nintendo would have to use a dedicated GPU, which would drive up costs as well as energy consumption. There is no reason whatsoever to roll with ARM for a home console. Fake. |
Currently there aren't such CPUs or APUs, but they are feasible, and AMD has higher end aRM products in its plans, so it's simply not possible with the currently available chips, not in absolute.
| WolfpackN64 said: What's the point of going ARM? They could stick to the POWER architecture and maintain BC. I'm sure IBM with its OpenPower would happily design a costum core for Nintendo. |
This is a good point, if they want to stick to RISC architecture, POWER, besides BC with the last three Ninty consoles, already offers the widest scalability amongst architectures, and even not adopting the latest POWER 8 versions (but scaling it to the right specs for a console could be the best option also for cost effectiveness), POWER 7 or 7+ scaled to console specs could already offer a giant performance leap at a cheap price, there are for example 16-core lightweight POWER CPUs cheap and low-power consuming enough for routers, for example. AMD could provide a suitable GPU and it could also collaborate with IBM to put everything in a single chip APU, to save space, power and costs.
The rumor is a fake, but not for the CPU it suggests, that's actually the part that could make more sense.
