| taikamya said: I don't think you understand exactly how hardware works. The APU inside the X1S is the same as the XB1. Now to the Neo. The Neo is a totally different architecture. ..... The Neo is a totally different architecture and it will require a patch for older games to work. |
How would you know?
It was common knowledge that AMD themselves never comissioned to reengineer the Jaguar at 16nm. Now that we know that the Slim actually contains two shrinked Jaguar units, we see that at least Microsoft paid for the development of it (which wasn't cheap).
Now the big question is: What about Sony? Can the "freeload" on the 16nm Jaguar or did they also pay for it? Or did MS and Sony silently agree to co-develop it?
What we know is that Sony at some point contemplated using "a better cpu" in the Neo - for a much increased price. That would point to the "original" Neo having the same die-shrink Jaguars (rumoured at 2.1GHz) as the XSlim.
At worst, the Neo is simply two die-shrink Jaguars and double the CUs (at 16nm) of the PS4. So the Neo would be totally the same architecture as the PS4. Given that the Neo is rumoured to be ready now, this isn't even a far-fetched theory.
So many questions, so few answers....
