I doubt he's taking shots against the PS4 with that tweet, might be comparing it to the old Xbox specs as we don't have an "official" PS4 CPU frequency yet.
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150Mhz CPU boost on XBO, now in production
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I doubt he's taking shots against the PS4 with that tweet, might be comparing it to the old Xbox specs as we don't have an "official" PS4 CPU frequency yet.
Cool, thx for the info.
What chart? Fill me in ..
CassidyIzABeast
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That's right.
They probably wouldn't talk about if they did, they don't really need to at this point, though, although it would be cool if Yosh just tweeted "1.9Ghz" and nothing else. Gaf would go insane.
Don't think he is taking a shot. XB1 was at 1.6 and now it's at 1.75
We don't know.
This. RROD all over again.
Yeah exactly. I don't see how that's a dig at the competition.
Gamers trying to start stuff (again, haha).
so it was underclocked?
depends if this is considered good Xbone news or bad Xbone news.
Good: better performance
Bad: lack of vision. incompetent first shift engineers. tier 1 arrogance. increased melting probability.
Did you see that thing? It's massive and consoles have lower TDP than the previous generation. It will be fine.Better hope it doesn't overheat with all these late changes.
ah, good call.
test_account
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I'm curious how early/late these decisions were made. I hope for Microsoft's case that they really went through proper testing after doing speed increase for both the CPU and the GPU.
The PS4 CPU is at 1.6GHz if i'm not mistaken, so it could be a reference to that. But it could be both though, simply pointing out that there is a CPU increase.
Dead Prince
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someone just wanted to bring up the 32 > 16. If not. I did it first.
That's how I read it.
RedRooster
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Whew, the subtlety. Nice.
Poor Wii U.
Or they were super confident in the original spec's reliability but now, after seeing the PR nightmare and the pre-order numbers they might have decided to take a bit more of a risk (even if it's still within safe margins).
TheUnsunghero26
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2 cores for each. It sounds like that's final for XBO but the PS4 info is kind of old and last I heard they were trying to get it lower but I don't know if they did or not.
TheChewyWaffles
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Secret sauce confirmed
Bam Bam Baklava
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I'm glad to know both consoles are in full production right now.
Could be the 'September news'. If so, meh.
Depends how you interpret it.
weekend_warrior
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Overclocking the CPU at the last minute without testing stability before producing tens of thousands of units sounds like a good idea.
The Latter. When it comes to gaming PCs, The GPU is way more important than the CPU.
soul creator
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some talk in there about profitability being important. I wonder if they're taking the Nintendo route and selling at a profit from the beginning.
cooling probably....
Garrett 2U
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because I'm sure that is what happened
Could be, but that was my initial assumption. Taking shots that is.
why were they both 1.6 in the first place then? It isn't a power hungry CPU, so why underclock it from stock?
I doubt it.
The increase in performance out of this is pretty much irrelevant. Around 10 Gigaflops for a system with a cumulative floating point calculation speed of 1400 Gigaflops.
The upgrade on the GPU was bigger news.
The real news is that they're just going now in production while Sony stated at Gamescom their manufacturing plants were already pumping out PS4s at full speed.
That also explains the lack of a release date, people should be prepared to shortages.
The upgrade on the GPU was bigger news.
The real news is that they're just going now in production while Sony stated at Gamescom their manufacturing plants were already pumping out PS4s at full speed.
That also explains the lack of a release date, people should be prepared to shortages.
Captain Tuttle
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No way they would risk that again. It'll be fine.
It's an increase of 2-3 game cubes
It's a small boost on a low power, low heat CPU with a lot of ventilation and cooling. Like the GPU upclock, it should be fine.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Look at you lol. I know he wasnt serious neither was I. It was just funny.
RedRooster
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I'm sure they just did that, you're right.
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