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’s eSRAM Performance Discussed by Wolfgang Engel

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…

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…

AMD Kevari Architecture GDDR5 Support

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…

Exclusive AMD Interview – Discussing GCN Architecture, Compute Performance & The Future Part 1

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…

Exclusive AMD Interview – Discussing GCN Architecture, Performance & The Future Part 1 Page 2

Let’s assume I’m a games developer and I’m in the middle of creating a game for the PS4. There are reports that Mantle is similar to the Playstation 4’s API. Since the PS4 uses the GCN technology, Is it relatively…

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,…

PS4 Hardware – What’s Inside The PS4

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…

Why PS4 and Xbox One Moved to X86-64

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?…