Prediction: Xbox Scarlet will use Nvidia GPU

[Bofferbrauer2]

Pemalite said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:
Doubt it

AMD can bring them an all-in-one concept with Motherboard, GPU and CPU all from one hand. NVidia however is stuck to ARM for the CPU, which can't keep up with X86 CPUs (and would seriously bottleneck a 4K console), plus NVidia are generally more expensive. An Intel/NVidia or even IBM/NVidia (with the new POWER9 CPUs) are technically possible, but would be much more expensive and/or more complicated to port to

ARM can best x86, if you take the Core wide and fast enough, just no company has seen a compelling business case for it.
Apple has made some very large and fast ARM cores that could probably give Intel Core and Ryzen a run for it's money at the same frequency.

In Dhrystone, which is pure Integer, they do. But add in floating point calculations (Whetstone) and ARM is beaten by leaps and bounds. Considering videogames are very reliant on floating point (Whetstone), the X86 still easily trumps ARM in gaming operations.

Coremark is almost totally Dhrystone, hence why ARM seems to keep up well with X86 in those benchmarks. But anything with heavy floating point usage will kick down ARM scores compared to X86.