| JustBeingReal said: My point wasn't that AMD didn't have an Arm option now, that efficiency just isn't there with current AMD options available in the arm space, K12 would bring that to the table. |
K12 isn't expected to drop for another 12+ months, not enough time for a console expected before that.
| JustBeingReal said: Current Opteron chips aren't very efficient, they're 32nm, whereas K12 would be 14nm, so substantial improvements would be made to efficiency and overall performance. Excavator based APUs are more efficient at 28nm, but X86 is the desired platform for 3rd party developers and compared to what's in PS4 and XB1 even Puma was 50% more efficient than Jaguar. |
Wrong. The Opteron A1100 is built at 28nm. A respin and a shrink to 16nm or 14nm is entirely feasible.
The Opteron A1100 is ARM not x86.
Most game engines already support ARM anyway, like Unreal Engine, Unity, CryEngine. etc'.
Even companies like Rockstar, Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA have experience developing for ARM.
ARM is probably the only other ISA with as much industry support as x86, Nintendo could also gain ARM developer support that Sony and Microsoft probably couldn't garner.
| JustBeingReal said: 8 Puma cores could hit 2.4GHz and only use 30 watts, Jaguar required 30 watts for 8 cores at 1.6Ghz, an Excavator based APU, with 4 CPU cores clocked at 3.4Ghz, along with 8 GCN Compute Units clocked at 800Mhz only used 35 watts. |
AMD would probably not use Puma. They have Carrizo-L, otherwise known as Puma+
It has a few advantages in regards to power consumption and performance.
| JustBeingReal said: X86 is way more likely given that Nintendo were open to 3rd party input at the inception of planning for NX, when you take into consideration the efficiency differences available from the X86 chips compared to what's currently available with Arm options it makes it a no brainer for Nintendo to go with an AMD X86 over an Arm chip. 3rd party have been building their big titles on X86, the major engines use X86 as the basis for their technology. |
x86 is likely a given for a non-portable device. ARM is likely what they will use for their mobile effort.
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