When it comes to Sony’s strategies for console optimization, ICE Team are the ones usually in the lime light. But in reality, there are other teams also responsible for producing the tools, strategies and optimizations to improve the systems performance over the long haul. ICE Team typically work on API related ‘stuff’, including GPU.

There’s much been made of the Xbox One’s specs, but despite the fact it’s giving up some GPU grunt to the Playstation 4, the largest criticism leveled at the console is likely at the eSRAM. The eSRAM is 32MB of memory situated directly on the Xbox One’s main SoC. The purpose of this memory.

Despite our best attempts to make our tech analysis and post-mortems as in-depth and easy to understand as possible, not everyone is aware of some of the basic terms and phrases that we throw about frequently. In this very article we’ll be going over the basics of the more common phrases you’ll likely hear.

AMD have their fingers in many pies recently, pushing PC development along with providing the APU technology residing inside the PS4 and X1. Recently, AMD’s own Developers Guide for the BIOS and Kernels of the Kevari hints of remnants of GDDR5 support that isn’t present in the finished desktop product. The guide references four DRAM controllers.

AMD are one of the biggest forces in next generation gaming right now. AMD are producing the chips for the next generation consoles, the Playstation 4, Wii U and Xbox One. Additionally, the Radeon R9 290X is one of the best GPU’s on the market right now for performance. During their recent CES conference,.

Now the Xbox One has seen a release in 13 territories around the world. Now people have torn the thing open, and explored just what makes the black box tick. While we have a reasonable idea exactly how the system ticks, there are still a few mysteries (mostly with the GPU’s compute) which we don’t.

Now that the Playstation 4 has been released we have a good understanding of what lies inside the machine. In this article we’re going to be taking an overall look at the PS4’s internals and doing an analysis of all that lies beneath the black plastic shell. This article links to a lot of other.

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.

  The new Haswell SoC is possibly going to contain a rather impressive 128MB of eDRAM on board. Way back in the mists of 2012, Intel had plans to add eDRAM into the Ivy Bridge platform, but was canned. The problem with adding eDRAM is too fold – heat and cost. The e in.