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Zekkyou on 05 January 2017
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Barkley said:
Zekkyou said:

To the best of my knowledge the PS4 and X1's CPUs are functionally the same thing, MS just took the risk of clocking theirs a bit higher (just as Sony have done with the Pro). While i do think it's likley the Scorpio will present some kind of CPU advantage, it'll have to involve either an updated version of Jaguar, or an entirely new CPU. If they simply further upclock the X1's CPU, it'll be similar to the Pros. There's a limit to how far that boat can be pushed out.

I guess so I'm not technically knowledgable enough to know just how far the particular CPU can be feasibly upclocked. Yeah basically they're the same CPU but the PS4 is 1.6ghz, XBO 1.75ghz, Pro 2.1ghz.

I whould find it strange if the Scorpio was just the same CPU with a 20% increase in Clock Speed. Though honestly I expect it to feature a different CPU rather then just an upclock. It's going to be a costly machine I think.

It would be a bit strange given how they've been presenting the Scorpio, but it wouldn't be an entirely unreasonably decision either. For the Scorpio's hardware advantage to matter, it also needs to be priced competitively against the Pro, and a new CPU will work against it on that front. They're not going to have the same situational price advantages Sony enjoyed with the base PS4 (Kinect at launch, Sony getting lucky with the timings on GDDR5, some more expensive design choices MS made, and in-general manufacturing scale savings), so every decision they make is doubly important.

I think it's mostly going to come down to what they want the Scorpio to achieve. If 4k (or as close to that as possible) is their core focus, then an upclocked X1 CPU wouldn't be unreasonable. If their goals are broader though, such as 1080p-1440p/60ps being a consistently viable performance target, then a stronger CPU is an absolute must.