Of course. But this is still nice. Whenever I do one day decide to get an XBO, it's nice to know my dollar will now buy a slightly more powerful platform than it was being advertised as before
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150Mhz CPU boost on XBO, now in production
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Of course. But this is still nice. Whenever I do one day decide to get an XBO, it's nice to know my dollar will now buy a slightly more powerful platform than it was being advertised as before
AllIsOneIsNone
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Microsoft should just start over.
Decisions like that should've been made months in advance, what about the stress testing phase?
DagnastyEp
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It's a 9.3% boost in clock speed, will result in an additional 9.6 GFLOPS more total CPU compute (112gflop vs 102.4gflop). One jagaur core @1.6 puts out 12.8 GFLOPS, so the boost gives the equivalent of 3/4 of another core - not bad. Though, I'm not sure what kind of in game performance it will actually result in.
Albert Penello ‏@albertpenello 8m
1.75 > 1.6. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/xbox-update-console-full-production-improved-cpu-performance/
Albert taking shots.
1.75 > 1.6. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/xbox-update-console-full-production-improved-cpu-performance/
Albert taking shots.
ooo he probably shouldn't go there, the tech heads are about to eviscerate him with a play by play on all the ways PS4 > XBO lol
of course they are. People expecting only several hundred thousand sold by end of holiday are going to be surprised indeed.
before the Sony tech force tries to show us how 1.6 in ps4 is better than 1.75 on xbo due to compute whatchamacallits and thingamajiggies Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
It originally actually slowed the PC down to a set, spec frequency (8Mhz IIRC) as some x86 software was tied to the frequency and performed badly with higher clocked chips. So getting "Turbo speed" was actually with the switch off, not on.
Oyashrio-Sama
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vpance
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lol!
It's 1.6 from Killzone presentation, of course last minute changes are possible:
487710 cycles / 305us = 1599M cycles/second = 1.6 GHz
SenjutsuSage
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It's significant in that it's more than we thought it would be, and it will obviously help games, however little that may be. And, no, they gain nothing at all by somehow trying to respond to PS4 using these types of methods. Pretty certain these changes are stuff Microsoft are free to make because they designed well enough, but they aren't things they're doing to try and one up Sony. That would be incredibly dumb and pointless.
Zekra Dezivad
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They surely know that One is inferior to PS4, so they are trying to reduce the gap in every way they can. Reduce, not fill.
Maybe this will give us better multiplatform games, so it's a good thing.
Maybe this will give us better multiplatform games, so it's a good thing.
Captain Tuttle
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so how does this effect the gigElops?
He also said they're sold out. My local Target and Gamestop says otherwise tho.
I guess we'll see.
Albert's pretty adorable but the Xbone is still in a tough position.
soul creator
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0.0375 GHz per extra controller supported over PS4!
SwiftDeath
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Good for everyone
X1 games will look better and will raise the bar on the weakest platform to be developed for
Multiplats have more breathing room
X1 games will look better and will raise the bar on the weakest platform to be developed for
Multiplats have more breathing room
Garrett 2U
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hahahaha
Impeccable
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Albert being embedded is starting to show.
He knows what will tweak our collective nipples and knows shots fired will keep people "buzzing" about Xbox One. Well done, sir, well done.
He knows what will tweak our collective nipples and knows shots fired will keep people "buzzing" about Xbox One. Well done, sir, well done.
He's right, if the 1.6 number holds for PS4. The KZSF tech slides in Feb said 1.6 GHz and 6 cores which was exactly in line with what XBO's CPU was before the upclock. There's a chance that PS4 may have less than 1 core dedicated to the OS (according to GopherD) but that rumor is very old and things could have changed when they increased the RAM reservation for the OS. I'm really curious to see why Sony hasn't released CPU specs yet, I'm really curious and they've been extremely open about everything else.
"We purposefully did not target the highest end graphics"
"Comparing specs is meaningless"
"1.75 > 1.6"
♫One of these three is not like the others. One of these three just does not fit. If you can tell which one is not like the others...♫
Anyway, good shit. The more they reduce the difference between Xbone and PS4 the better it is for multiplats.
"Comparing specs is meaningless"
"1.75 > 1.6"
♫One of these three is not like the others. One of these three just does not fit. If you can tell which one is not like the others...♫
Anyway, good shit. The more they reduce the difference between Xbone and PS4 the better it is for multiplats.
RedRooster
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Pretty sure that's not a shot at PS4. But NeoGaf loves its controversy I suppose.
Given that the Xbone's GPGPU is not as beefy (as PS4), this is indeed a nice boost for it.
GPU is now 1.31 TFlops
Total is 1.422 TFlops, compared to PS4's 1.945 TFlops.
CPU is now 112 GFlops
GPU is now 1.31 TFlops
Total is 1.422 TFlops, compared to PS4's 1.945 TFlops.
PsihoPerihelion
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Great news.
What if he actually wasn't serious about it? Gee, some of you really invest your feelings on this plastic boxes.
What if he actually wasn't serious about it? Gee, some of you really invest your feelings on this plastic boxes.
Captain Tuttle
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HaHa, nicely done Penello
bro you're back ;_;
CassidyIzABeast
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Its a 100Mhz overclock on a chip that can run at 2Ghz stock.
tfur
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Still waiting on him to answer questions and provide the chart he promised.
Steverulez
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Taking shots, or just point out that they have increased the clock speed?
KoopaTheCasual
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lol that's adorable. I thought publishing "a bunch of numbers" didn't matter 2 months ago???
Didn't Microsoft say they were targeting 3million sales by the end of the holiday season, in regards to that Chinese rumor of downscale?
Overclock isn't exactly the right word and it's why a lot of people have heating concerns. It's an upclock from what it was previously but it's not over 2GHz so it's not overclocked yet.
RamzaIsCool
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So anybody know bow many cores are reserved for the OS for both systems?
Probably less of a hardware ting and more they tweaked some software settings which let them slightly overclock the CPU without having the temp go too high. Simple PC stuff.
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