NX April Direct Leak!

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JustBeingReal said:
When someone comes out and says that memory doesn't need to be fast because the processor is fast, you know it's fake. Memory needs to be able to send and receive data fast enough, to keep the processor fed.
Also this leak guy is saying the CPU is 30% faster than PS4 and XB1, which is it? XB1's CPU runs at 1.75Ghz and PS4's is 1.6GHz.

Same thing with the GPU differences compared to PS4 and XB1, as Barkley said. 50% faster than XB1, isn't 50% faster than PS4's GPU.

The only ways that 12GBs of memory make sense, is either if Nintendo are using 8GBs of DDR3 memory and 4GBs of something faster like HBM or GDDR5 or GDDR5X. 12GBs of DDR3 with some kind of cache like 64MBs of eSRAM or eDRAM (because you'd need more than 32MBs for a faster GPU).
Finally 12GBs of all GDDR5 or GDDR5X, because that would provide ample bandwidth and storage.

The latter memory set-up makes for the simplest to develop for.
This NEX rumor sounds completely fake.

1) DDR3 can potentially be faster than GDDR5.
2) 6/12Gb is entirely plausable. Take a look at the Intel x58 Triple channel memory configuration that you can have on the PC.

Nintendo could have 24x16bit memory chips and that would be 384bit.
Now let's assume Nintendo has 2133Mhz ram like Microsoft's Xbox One... However, because of the wider memory bus, Nintendo would actually have 93.7GB/s  of bandwidth verses Microsoft's 68.3GB/s.
What if Nintendo went with 3000Mhz DDR3 Ram? That would boost it to 144GB/s.

Now, thanks to advancements in GPU tech... You need less bandwidth. The NX *could* have less bandwidth than the PS4, but end up having more to play with overall thanks to Colour compression. (First introduced with AMD's Tonga GPU's, the PS4 and Xbox One lack this.)

End result is... The NX could have DDR3 and more bandwidth to play with than the PS4.


Still. I personally think this is fake... Going with DDR3 isn't wise considering that memory technology is slowly being phased out, it's price isn't that much lower than DDR4... And should get more expensive as manufacturing shifts over to the newer standard.
Plus 384bit memory bus and 24 memory chips would get expensive. 384bit would require more traces on the motherboard, which means more PCB layers which means higher cost. And well.. More chips is more expensive.
Nintendo is often fairly conservative.

With that said... This bloke could have 12Gb in his machine if it's a Dev Kit, Dev kits sometimes have more memory for development purposes.

As for the CPU... Jaguar is old and slow. 1.6ghz vs 1.75ghz isn't anything worth comparing, the differences would be minimal.
It would also be trivial for AMD to offer twice the performance of both. It already has old CPU's that exist that can do just that... CPU's also don't need fast RAM, his statement is true, AMD has a plethora of technology's to hide bandwidth and latency deficits.
The GPU however is an entirely different matter...