| the-pi-guy said: >I'm talking about assumptions based on what we know (and keep telling how nothing is sure) and you state your points as "we know for sure" from a one-liner (one sentence too by the way from YOUR link and any other link or source I cared to read or look at following your response "8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz with SMT (variable frequency)"). You're inventing bizarre assumptions that the PS5 has to be with SMT off and must be slower based off absolutely nothing. And taking information from bad sources. And I'm taking information from what Cerny and Digital Foundry have said as well as actual devs I've talked to. >CPU is faster, all articles are wrong and variable frequency means most of the time. PS5's CPU is generally a tiny speck faster. Yes clickbait articles aren't the most reliable. No "variable frequency" doesn't mean most of the time. Cerny and devs have said that it spends most of it's time at 3.5 GHz. The frequency has to be capped, otherwise it would go higher. 3.5 GHz was picked because the heat matches the heat of the GPU (which similarly had to be capped in order to work, as the chips logic runs into issues faster than that). |
Bold: No I am not, you are making this up. The SMT off was in my first reply and then we corrected it and I never brought that again. You are sticking on that when it has nothing to do with the past 5 replies or so...
To be short, based on that (Sony official specs) "8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz with SMT (variable frequency)":
My assumption: I assume 3.5ghz is NOT the 100% time speed (and will not be the average) and the S CPU is probably faster overall with its fixed SMT frequency (and obviously in some case faster depending on the thread requirements, i.e: no need for SMT).
Your assumption: You assume 3.5ghz is close to 100% of the time and variable frequency is not really relevant; therefore 3.5ghz should be considered as "all the time".
That's all, the rest is just opinion. And nothing in that in "invended bizarre assumption"... It is pretty fine to believe that based on what we know. Assuming != hoping/believing in something by the way. Personally the better it is, the better the games I love will be (I'm a huge fan of Horizon) but I'm sorry if I do not share your believes on the CPU front, I simply do not and one-liner stuff like that tend to be there for a reason in my book.
Last edited by Imaginedvl - on 13 September 2020
