PS5 release date predicted...

[Pemalite]

EricHiggin said:

 

Pemalite said:

Ryzen isn't on the market, thus we have zero idea if it will take any relevent marketshare.
Even when AMD was beating Intel, Intel still controlled the majority of the market.
Plus AMD isn't releasing any high-end chipsets to go with Ryzen, Ryzen itself is also not going to be as fast or as efficient as Intel.
Ryzen has taken multiple cost-efficient design choices though to keep costs low.
And there is also some rumours (To be taken with pinches of salt) that Ryzen has a few bugs that may hinder performance in some cases, bugs in CPU's aren't uncommon, but ones that impact reliability and performance aren't a good sign. (Case in point: TLB in Phenom.)
As for x86. There is no requirement that forces Microsoft and Sony to use x86. ARM can already soundly beat Jaguar.

Right now most of this is rumour when it comes to Ryzen. We may have seen what it can do as of the December New Horizon event, but considering the rumours stated it wasn't performing near that well just months earlier, and rumours that clocks may be even higher at launch, it may be better than we think. There are rumours of bugs as well correct, which may throw a wrench in the good faith AMD and Ryzen has built up until now. We'll see what happens at launch.

PS or MS could use ARM yes, but unless it makes giant leaps in the next couple years, x86 would be the smarter choice for next gen. After that though, based on ARMS pace of advancement, it could give x86 a run for its money. There's a reason AMD has been tinkering with ARM for while now.

It's an "Educated" rumor.

We know AMD has cut corners as it has split up the L3 cache pools. (This impacts performance as well.)
We know AMD doesn't have a high-end platform because it doesn't offer a chipset/CPU with an appropriate number of PCI-E lanes or memory channels.

And this is from what AMD has told us, not rumor. - People are hyping up Ryzen like it's the second coming of Jesus.

Benchmarks of engineering samples (From the same sources that leaked bulldozers engineering samples which people refused to believe and turned out to be accurate.) shows that on a per-core basis it's around the same level as a Core i5. Just AMD will happily sell you more cores to compensate.

ARM can beat low-end x86 processors. Just ask Apple.
I don't believe Microsoft/Sony will go with ARM next round, but the fact is, ARM is better than most people realise, especially high-end ARM cores.