Emily Rogers: NX not gonna use X86 architecture, raw power close to XBO

[JustBeingReal]

lmaobox said:

JustBeingReal said:

You know SoC doesn't stand for System on Console right? It's just an abbreviated term for Systen on Chip, something that is a blanket term for all chips that house all core processing technology to make a "system" work.

An APU and an SoC are one and the same thing. AMD provided the System on Chip for PS4 and for XBox One.

AMD designed the SoC's for both consoles, based on the requirements discussed by both companies with AMD.

An APU is just a CPU and GPU on a single die to create a cost-efficient processor. An SoC can contain an APU.

If AMD designed the SoC, then the PS4 and Xbone would have the same exact specs, or at least similar architectures.

By having 2 vastly different architectures, you're implying AMD did R&D 2 times for both SONY and MS, which is nonsense. AMD would have only done R&D once and used the results for that R&D for both SONY and MS.

SONY and MS both designed their own SoC. AMD only supplied the APU based on what SONY and MS wanted. Nothing more.

You're not understanding this at all.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Accelerated_Processing_Unit

And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip

 

I never said PS4 and Xbox One had vastly different architectures, they both use the same AMD Jaguar CPU cores and the same 7000 series GPU core technology, only Xbox One has a slightly faster clocked CPU, fewer GPU cores, but clocked slightly faster, a custom DSP (shape) and 32MBs of eSRAM.

Sony has more GPU cores, along with modified Asynchronous Compute technology, featuring 4X the ACEs.

Sony paid for their R&D, Microsoft paid for theirs and both got what they paid for, AMD would definitely do the work to design the chips each company needed.

AMD would have done R&D once for Sony, then once for Microsoft, you're putting words in my mouth.

Both platforms have APUs, they're both Systems on a Chip, because that's what an Accelerated Processing Unit is.