I can't wait to hear a Crapgamer response after hearing him QQ about the 30.2m PS4 consoles sold video.
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Recent PS4 SDK update unlocked 7th CPU core for gaming
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Bear Force One
Banned
Because it could change everything?
Analogy of the year and it came just in time. Holy smokes lol.
omnislayer
Member
OK this one is the best.
julzillamilitia
Banned
there's alot of talk that sony need to bring back crash because they need a ps4 mascot.
But there is absolutely no mascot greater than banderas gifs.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Unlimited power.
plasmawave
Banned
This isn't even its final form.
CPU has nothing to do with AF.
NoctisVsStar
Member
You keep going on about this "lucky" nonsense as if it serves some meaningful insight. Having a flexible architecture design and silicon budget that you can then significantly increase upon if the chance becomes available is smart design. Has shit to do with luck. Its a good thing to be able to take feedback and improve your machine.
Its odd how you are so dismissive and reductionist about PS4s architecture wins over X1 and simultaneously trying to pitch the X1 as some smart and conservative approach. Its neither honestly and most people in the community seems to agree.
At the end of the day MS/Sony were faced with same challenges to build a next-gen machine. MS decided to overengineer their way into a corner while Sony played the long game. The company playing chess and not checkers won in that battle. Its simple really.
Nothing wrong with BB's framerate, what that is is framepacing, a software issue that can be patched, but most likely won't be for that game
So no?
Dreamwriter
Member
This could make an improvement in many games, but not likely a huge improvement, since taking full advantage of multiple cores is not easy to do, especially with generic game engines (like Unreal 4). I wouldn't be surprised though if Star Wars Battlefront makes use of this. Games will have to be developed (or patched) specifically to make use of this, it won't just automatically improve their performance.
I do wonder what they dropped to free up the core - when Microsoft did it, they were freeing up the resources dedicated to Kinect - games that didn't use Kinect could use its resources.
I do wonder what they dropped to free up the core - when Microsoft did it, they were freeing up the resources dedicated to Kinect - games that didn't use Kinect could use its resources.
Some areas have severe framerate drops when you summon or invade/get invaded. Old Yharnam is especially egregious.
Finaika
Member
This.
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
I'd like to see Epic redo their old tech demo on it with the core unlocked.
The one with the lava and the demon dude.
The one with the lava and the demon dude.
They may have not dropped anything at all.
Liquidsnake
Banned
Can we get a driveclub 2 announcement?
Well they did say "Unlocked" I would take that to mean that it's fully available like the other cores.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Nothing but awesome news. Wonder if they will be able to pump any extra magic into Uncharted 4 in time...
I was just wondering about that as well.
Btw of course this will help and it's great news but just like it was for the XB1 it's not realistic to expect any significant performance boost.
I hope it will help developers to achieve more stable framerates in CPU intensive games.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Should be interesting to see how much of a gap this is going to create between X1 and PS4. Of course there is already a gap but it honestly isn't as big as I expected. Most of the time it's a resolution difference and not much else. Is it known if this can be done for X1 as well?
it's already been done.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Ah yes, but is that everything or is there more left?
LordOfChaos
Member
I'm surprised Nintendo still wasn't arsed to release any of that fully /half/ of it's system RAM that's reserved for the OS. Going from 1GB free to 1.5 would be a sizable difference. Probably more of one than 16% more CPU power to go at.
Lol amazing
I freaken love this.
Ontopic, what kind of performance benefits would this have? Is it something as simple as adding 15% more framerate or is it more complicated than that?
Edit: I know nothing about this stuff
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Deleted member 325805
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I'm guessing this could be big for Horizon.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Call her Snow White because she has 7 dwarves under her skirt.
On a side note, this explains the delay to Magic Duels Origins PS4. They are now gunning for 60fps. Dat powa'.
On a side note, this explains the delay to Magic Duels Origins PS4. They are now gunning for 60fps. Dat powa'.
The iPhone 6S Plus at single threaded performance is probably there.
better resolution and better performance are enough to show the gap between the two, some games have better effect too like MGSV... i don't know why people are waiting for a generational difference lol.
valkillmore
Member
Sip sip the sizzurp
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Even if it is, that would still mean that it's 4x slower.
LordOfChaos
Member
That thing competes with Core M in IPC, per core. It's a little crazy. Though it might be a bit unfair to x86 chips since the ARMv8 ones, particularly Apples, do so well in encryption it drags the whole score up a bit. But since it uses a geometric mean it shouldn't be that much.
Point being, Core M is much better than Atom per core, Jaguar is maybe a little better than Atom optimistically, clock for clock, core for core.
So the A9, it's probably actually doing a bit better than the consoles on a single core basis, though yes, having 7 cores still puts them well ahead.
If Apple got core happy and threw quad Twister cores in the Apple TV, with that large heatsink and no battery to worry about to keep up clocks...Then the consoles would be very rapidly encroached upon.
Then for GPU the A9X is already around what, 400-ish Gflops? 90% increases per year for two years would have it awfully close...
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
Wow now they just have to free more ram memory from the Os to games
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
On a system level, it is probably fair to compare vs 8 cores in this case, as you definitely don't have 100% of both A9 cores dedicated to single app while it's running either. There's lots of background tasks that they're taking care of as well.
Astral Dog
Member
This will help PS4 with open world games a bit, more performance is always a good thing.
because the system was not designed to use more than 1GB of memory, thats more than was needed for Nintendo and they are always very exact with those specifications, for some reason, its like giving a senzu bean to an earthling.
because the system was not designed to use more than 1GB of memory, thats more than was needed for Nintendo and they are always very exact with those specifications, for some reason, its like giving a senzu bean to an earthling.
If you think about it, 1GB is already double of what competitor comparable hardware have.
DangerMouse
Member
Excellent.
Yeah, the difference in performance is already quite sizable.
This. Hopefully they can keep doing that again, like on PS3, for the next wave of games to benefit from.
Yeah, the difference in performance is already quite sizable.
This. Hopefully they can keep doing that again, like on PS3, for the next wave of games to benefit from.
LordOfChaos
Member
Uh, excuse me?
Also, "needed for Nintendo" is fine and well, but that just solidifies that they still don't give a shit about third party, despite what they say.
The 3DS even had a high RAM game mode that would push more OS functions aside, the Wii U really should too.
93xfan
Banned
I see. I thought it might be more CPU intensive due to Xbox one including better AF more often. Anyway, I hear the CPU was the major bottleneck for 64 players in Battlefield 4, so maybe it could help that.
Either way, this is great news!
Astral Dog
Member
Uh, excuse me?
Also, "needed for Nintendo" is fine and well, but that just solidifies that they still don't give a shit about third party, despite what they say.
The 3DS even had a high RAM game mode that would push more OS functions aside, the Wii U really should too.
yeah but..with Xenoblade X being the bigger and most ambitious game so far released on the system, it appears they got their huge open world just "fine" with what they had, only Zelda would need more memory, if any other game does,
1.5 would had been nice, but i assume things would still had been difficult for third party developers with the specs, Gekko CPU, use of Edram, etc. they would still need to work around those
Its a case of design, more than anything else
Now NX should tell if they do it again
16GB?