It’s no accident we see both Sony and Microsoft ending up with x86 processors for the next generation of consoles. For what reasons have Sony abandoned the Cell architecture – the architecture they championed so much around the PS3’s release? The previous consoles, the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 both used versions of PowerPC.

GDDR5 vs DDR3 Latency & Bandwidth. Since the Playstation 4’s and Xbox One’s specs were leaked on the internet (but of course, back then the systems were known as Orbis and Durango), there’s been much debate regarding the latency of GDDR5 and DDR3 memory. GDDR5 5500 (1375MHZ actual) memory, used in the case of the.

The Playstation 4 dev kit has undergone numerous changes as the console has evolved, but this latest evolution is the current kit that studios are working with to design their titles. This information comes to us from the FCC, and we can get a better understanding of just what studios are playing around with..

For those I’ve spoken to who watched Microsoft’s Xbox One press conference, one thing stuck out like a sore thumb (aside from lack of games) – the speed they rattled through the tech. Only general terms were used – 8GB of Ram, with no description to its type or speed, an X64 CPU –.

In a recent article, I went into how the Durango’s Move Engines are going to function, and I’ve also gone into depth on several other articles about performances of the CPU vs desktop, but in this article we’ll be going into the perf. As mentioned in those previous articles, there is an emphasis on.

What Will PS4 and Xbox 720 Bring Other Than Faster Hardware We expect the next generation of consoles – The XBox 720 and Playstation 4 to be substantially better spec wise than the previous generation. It’s not an unfair expectation, but we should not focus our pursuit purely on the amont of FLOPS or.

The age of the APU is firmly here – and for low power devices, it brings a plethora of various benefits. An APU (or, to give it its full name Accelerated Processing Unit) integrates the CPU and GPU on one die. The idea behind this really started to hit home after AMD bought out.

The XBox 720 Durango specs leaked It appears that the Xbox 720 while still being a massive jump from this current generation (Including Nintendo’s Wii U) will still fall a little behind the Playstation 4 Orbis with the graphical power. The xbox 720 will, much like the PS4 being using AMD’s new jaguar CPU.