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Norion on 14 January 2025
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sc94597 said:
Norion said:

How exactly would this compare to the CPU in the PS4/XBO? I assume it'd be more capable but it seems it wouldn't be by much based on what you're saying.

To put things in perspective, a Cortex A78 gets a Geekbench 6 score of about 1121 single, 3016 multi-core at 2GHz.

An FX-8120 (a desktop CPU of an architecture similar to the 8th Gen console's) gets about 413 single, 1800 multi-core at 3.1 Ghz. 

The 8th Generation consoles range from 1.6 Ghz to 2.3 Ghz, so they're running at much lower clocks than the FX-8120. Jaguar had higher IPC than Bulldozer, but only by about 20-30%. Not enough to make up the difference. 

We're looking at an IPC for the Switch 2's CPU nearly double that of Jaguar CPUs. 

The A78C also has an advantage over the base A78, in that all cores are on a single cluster and are homogenous. 

Even at only 1Ghz the Switch's CPU should outclass the PS4/Pro/XBO/XBO:S/XBO:X pretty easily. The IPC difference is just too large between modern-ish ARM and Jaguar. 

There is also the matter that game-engines are just much more efficient with multi-threading loads now than they were during the 8th generation. 

So a notable improvement then but considering how bad the Jaguar is it'd still be disappointing and way behind the current gen consoles. Hopefully it ends up being at least somewhat better than this.