SWITCH Rumor Round-up

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Wyrdness said:

bunchanumbers said:

So would this be more efficient vs the 8 jaguar cores the Xbox One and PS4 use? You know how the talk goes. Moar cores and all that jazz.

Number of cores doesn't really mean something is better much like clock speed doen't mean one CPU is better than another, being more modern it's very likely that the rumoured CPU is already more efficient and better, the CPUs in X1 and PS4 weren't really that good to begin with regardless as the Jaguar family were more used for tablets, mini PCs and mobile.

Given that AMD doesn't make 3-core CPUs anymore, that would suggest either an IBM processor or an ARM one. That last option seems the more likely, with the only doubt of the configuration, 2 big plus 1 little cores? Or is it the other way around?

And that configuration, if true, could work for an hybrid device: in handheld mode only one tri-core module works, and in home console mode it's both of them that power on.