Sony’s Playstation 4 upgrade will offer a significant performance boost over the vanilla console if these latest rumors are to be believed. The Playstation 4K (or PS4.5) will feature a GPU which provides twice the performance of the original model,…
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Cheaper, 20nm Xbox One Processor In Development | X1 Slim On The Way?
Microsoft might well be working on a cost reduced Xbox One console, if recent rumors and evidence is accurate. This isn’t anything new in the console industry, where as technology evolves, the systems become cheaper to produce, and processors can…
Playstation 4 CPU & GPU Profiling Information Unveiled
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…
Xbox One & Playstation 4 CPU Performance Information From Allegorithmic on Texture Generation | Exclusive Interview
The subject of both the Playstation 4 and Xbox One’s CPU’s has taken a slight backseat compared to chatter regarding their GPU and memory performance. There are likely a few reasons for this, the first is the GPU and memory…
Inside The Xbox One | AMD & Microsoft Developer Day Analysis & Breakdown | Tech Tribunal Part 1
There’s a good chance you’ve heard a lot about the insides of the Xbox One, but there’s much that’s still unclear regarding the CPU, eSRAM and its API. Microsoft have combined forces with AMD (who’re responsible for creating much of…
Jargon Buster – Learn Your CPU From Your GPU & RAM From HUMA
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…
Infamous Second Son Post-Mortem – Part 2 PS4 Performance, Compute & Particle System
In this second part of our post-mortem, we’ll take a look at how Sucker Punch Productions handles the GPGPU structure of the PS4, more detailed breakdowns of the games double buffering system and we get some confirmation on the memory…
PS4 Architecture Naughty Dog SINFO Analysis & Technical Breakdown
Part 2 A new light has been shined on the Playstation 4’s architecture thanks to Naughty Dog during their lecture at SINFO. This lecture is pretty damn technical, and several viewers / readers requested that I do a technical breakdown…
PS4 – ICE Team Programmer Says Surface Tiling / Detiling 10-100X faster & GPU / CPU Info
There has been much in the news regarding the optimizations Microsoft have pushed on the Xbox One regarding either drivers, SDK or the OS. But it’s important to remember that Microsoft aren’t the only ones working on their hardware. Sony…
Xbox One eSRAM “Not Complex, Just a Bottleneck”, Claims Developer
The Xbox One’s eSRAM has continued to be in the news since before even the consoles release, but for all of the wrong reasons. It’s often attributed to the systems lower performance “I don’t get this obsession with MS fanboys…
PS4 CPU Discussed By Arrowhead Game Studios
The Playstation 4’s CPU still remains somewhat of a mystery compared to the rest of the system. Sony are yet to provide info regarding the AMD Jaguar’s clock speed, although we do know a lot more about the processor. The…
Playstation 4 CPU ‘Quite Slow Compared to PC’ Says Developer
The Playstation 4’s CPU frequency is still unknown, despite lots of speculation. Sony have remained tight lipped concerning the machines clock speed, with ‘guesses’ ranging from between 1,6GHZ to 2GHZ. Just a few days ago, I ran with a piece…
Xbox One – The Hardware Specs and Architecture
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,…
Xbox One – 8GB of Flash Memory Discovered Inside X1
Microsoft’s Xbox One has hit the wild, and of course we knew we’d start to uncover some of the more “hidden” components inside Microsoft’s system as people started to tear it apart. Inside the console, located on the main board…
Playstation 4 – AMD Jaguar CPU 1.8GHZ – PS4 Rumor and Two Disabled Compute Units
The Playstation 4”s AMD Jaguar CPU clock speed has yet to be officially confirmed by Sony, but there is recent evidence and rumors to suggest that the CPU is running at 1.8GHZ. Previously, based on comments from various developers and…