| globalisateur said: And it's too late for using that tech for NX anyways. |
How is it too late? Not unless they've already started production and have enough inventory they don't want to lose.
MS upclocked Xbone's spec at the very last minute, if you recall. Doesn't sound like any architecture change at all, in fact.
Really, if you have a great insight why something is impossible, it'd be good to share that upfront rather than play coy.
| JEMC said: I can see AMD launching xx5 revisions as they showed in that slide explaining the naming of the new cards. What I don't believe is the 50% improvement claimed by those sites. Up to 15, maybe 20% by next year as the process gets more mature and refined could be, but a 50% improvement in only 4 months since the 480 launched? No way. |
Yeah, of course 50% seems on the high end, but the FinFET 14nm is very new and very innovative, with 3d structures
one could say there is more "surface" of the process that would be able to be tweaked and thus have larger scope for gains.
The idea that a 9month+ delay would enable Nintendo to base their spec around better process tech is entirely unsurprising.
And to be clear, Sony should be able to use the same improvements, but if the spec re: clockrate is already set, they won't benefit there.
(just in terms of lower thermal profile, allowing less intensive cooling, smaller case for slim, lower power needs re: power supply, etc)
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned:
If Nintendo is in position to benefit from this, then certainly MS would be able to as well with Scorpion.
Although I guess that's because they are already rumored to be using beefier GPU, CPU, and so only result is impact on power/cooling of that.
This does give basis for them to have that performance spec without going over-board on noisy fans, large case, etc.
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