PS5 vs XSeX: Understanding the Gap

[DonFerrari]

Pemalite said:

DonFerrari said:

The point I was making on the manufacturing node is that long term it would mean less efficiency gain on node shrink and cost reduction on scale because it would be something that is a little left behind already.

Also would potentially lose a lot of the performance and efficiency gains made on RDNA2.

Not sure Sony would have been that dumb, but who knows.

Not really, the point I am trying to convey is that Sony and AMD collaborated on a potential "Hybrid" chip to turn it into a unique and different beast, different enough that it's performance profile is different and probably has underlying enhancements that not even RDNA 2.0 has... And it brings it closer to home that comparing the PS5 and Xbox Series X on Teraflops is even more useless.

It doesn't mean that Sony made the wrong choice, far from it... We don't have all the information yet to frame everything in the proper context, just that this leak potentially proves that Sony's chip doesn't have a PC desktop-equivalent... Which is actually similar to what the Xbox 360's situation, it used the Radeon x1800 as a basis but then used enhancements from the Radeon 2900 series and made a unique beast... And was a great chip for the time.

Understood, hope that ends up being the better choice for them on both performance and cost.