iamdeath said:
selnor1983 said:
Putin said:
Maybe because some people can't let it go. And try to find any way to get some hope for XBO be much powerfull then it already is. |
Am I missing something here. Its common knowledge that not one single gaming media knows 100% how the Xbox One works. Noone. Microsoft arent telling everything yet. By law they cant. They have a NDA with AMD. So until September 29th passes, we wont know for sure.
Lately, alot of media are reporting that Microsoft have not designed a traditional CPU and GPU design. And that Microsoft ave designed something unusual for consoles and even for PC's.
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Not one single media knows how the ps4 works either, that's par for the course.
Where is this a lot of media? No way are they able to keep this secret this close to launch, heck everything aboput ps4 and x1 were known befoire the reveal. This is nothing more then wishfull thinking.
Even AMD has said the ps4 is more powerfull...............................
The PS4 has an unusual non standard CPU and GPU too, what is your point?
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I'm pretty sure AMD has said the PS4 has a more powerful APU. The APU is a layer in the Xbox One's SoC.
APU = CPU + GPU + NorthBridge + SouthBridge + I/O.
SoC = varies. In this case, on the Xbox One, it is the APU (as above)+eSRAM+a bunch of other stuff both mentioned an unmentioined, like the 15 discrete processors for audio and video.
The GPU layer in the Xbox One's SoC is believed to be a discrete GPU, meaning separate from the one included in the APU. Since it doesn't have its own outputs, the two would likely work together, which makes dividing up the eSRAM into four parts a little more understandable. One of the oddball design choices was splitting up the 32MB of eSRAM into four blocks of 8MB. If there is just one GPU, why not have a single block? The answers from Microsoft haven't been all that helpful in making sense of it. If there is a discrete GPU then you could have a situation where they're sharing that memory space passing handles back and forth, allowing blocks to be read and written to.
I still don't have my head wrapped around the concept of a discrete GPU that functions in conjunction with a GPU. When the rumor first appeared, my thoughts were that the two GPUs would be rendering on multiple screens, but the Xbox One only includes a single output. It is also possible that both could work in conjunection with the other. The GPU and the dGPU working together to create a single rendering. That just feels like overkill to me though.
If this is true, I will more interested in how this would work than how it was done.
