But it doesnt line up with Osiris, Klee and Tommy's number.
So, on one side you have Github/DF, on another you have Heisenberg/Odium and on completely different side you have Klee/Osiris/Tommy.
So who is right? Because Sony fans trust everyone bar DF/Github, but even the other two do not match with eachother. Hence = trusting hard numbers that line up with other leaks (Flute) and are actually pulled from Internet on AMDs request (you know, guys who actually create those APUs for Sony and MS).
My own personal opinion is sitting somewhere between Github/DF and Heisenberg/Odium on this. You can get 10.24 with the current Oberon stepping, and the fact the CPUs are mobile(laptop) variants gives more room for TDP budget for the APU. So technically they could push even higher, say, to 2.1GHz, for 10.75 or maybe even a bit higher than that to hit 11, all on the same Oberon stepping (E0) with all 40 units turned on. But, that'd probably see a somewhat lower CPU clock, compared to wherever XSX's CPU clock is at. And yes, 2.1GHz is well outside sweetspot area, but combined with good cooling and a lower-demanding CPU I think it could be at least doable.
But I'd feel uneasy with that approach honestly, and would rather want a bigger chip. Unfortunately nothing tied to PS5 has emerged yet fitting that criteria, and if it did it would probably be a newer Oberon stepping or maybe a chip revision. There's still some time for it to happen, but the window of opportunity is closing.
I think a lot of people are only feeling 9.2 as a disappointment because of direct relation to other numbers, particularly 12. But they don't understand how much of a leap 9.2TF RDNA1/RDNA2 Navi actually is compared to 1.84TF GCN. It's over a 6x increase, effectively. And they definitely don't seem to understand how big a leap Zen 2 is over Jaguar, or a 512 GB/s memory bus is over 176 GB/s on older memory architecture, etc. And they
definitely don't understand what a giant leap a 4 - 6 GB/s custom SSD drive interfaced as a memory-mapped cache (similar to SSG cards) is over the pathetic mechanical HDDs current-gen has been built around that couldn't even break 100 MB/s.
It's about the full picture, not just teraflops.