Pemalite said:
* CPU is several multiples faster. |
The 2500U uses like ~25-26 watts in laptop systems, when playing games.
If it was die-shrunk to 7nm, and ran PS4 games at 720p, do you think it would be able to do so?
And would people want a portable that played PS4 games @720p?
https://www.techpowerup.com/242148/globalfoundries-7-nm-to-enable-up-to-2-7x-smaller-dies-5-ghz-cpus
"While a move from 14 nm to 7 nm was expected to provide, at the very best, a halving in the actual size of a chip manufactured in 7 nm compared to 14 nm, Gary Patton is now saying that the are should actually be reduced by up to 2.7 times the original size. To put that into perspective, AMD's 1000 series processors on the Zeppelin die and 14 nm process, which come in at 213 mm² for the full, 8-core design, could be brought down to just 80 mm² instead."
A 70-80 mm² 2500U inside a portable *might* be able to run PS4 games (8threads ~1.2 Tflops) at 720p.
Not sure what memory solution would be possible, to allow this though (but again if your running 720p instead of 1080p, memory bandwidth usage isnt nearly as high).
