JRPGfan said:
No it doesnt. Only if you dont have a sufficient good cooling unit. Look at the RX 480, those units run at like 1200mhz+ (higher power, higher clock rate). Why is the PS4 neo rumored to have its gpu part running 911mhz ? To keep power consumption down, and to keep it cool, with a small cooling unit.
The answear is simple then, simply put on a bigger cooling unit, and clock the gpu higher. If they do that, the teraflops of performance it can deliver will go up. The gpu parts are made to run faster, and use more power, without it effecting anything. Its simply a matter of cooling. Sony just has to make a bigger box, with a more powerfull cooling unit. The chip stays the same as it is now. |
These consoles aren't exactly designed with a lot of free space, they'd probably have to redesign it to fit a larger cooling unit in there. These things just move so slowly that it seems like it's rather late in the game to change things.
Otherwise, everything I've read suggests overclocking does indeed increase the failure rate including a data gathering survey from Microsoft, but strangely there's not been much in the way of information released about it. I think it would be too difficult to acquire reliable data with specific conditions such as what cooling units were being used and such... for instance, I bought a MONSTER of a heat sink for my CPU, but my PC doesn't even know it's there were it to send failure data in.
If you're right I'll have to start overclocking my stuff more lol, I didn't skimp on the heatsink and ventilation, this thing never gets hot.
