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Is it plausible a procesador like this to be used on new Xbox scorpio, later next year?
by randiantech 10y ago
Is it plausible a procesador like this to be used on new Xbox scorpio, later next year?
- peller 10y agoThe original Xbox One used a Jaguar[0] based chip, which is really quite a different bread than the Bulldozer or Zen micro architectures. (It's closer to what you'd find in a netbook than in a high end machine, minus the custom memory cache/controller setup AMD designed for Microsoft.) While it's possible they'd switch micro-architectures, if history is any indication, I suspect it's more likely what you'll see is a die-shrink (28nm -> 14nm) combined with higher clock speeds. And hopefully a faster memory controller (I think that's more the bottleneck than raw CPU power). But that's entirely my speculation. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_(microarchitecture)
- shrewduser 10y agoNo. The architecture is too different.
- muxr 10y agoYes, Scorpio might possibly include Zen cores. AMD has on multiple occasions stated that one of their design goals has been to design a core than can scale from ultra power efficient embedded applications all the way to high performance. I think their motivation is to consolidate all their efforts into one core. Now I don't think they will be able to fit 8 zen cores into a Xbox SoC especially since the Vega GPU also have to fit in there, but quad core with 4 logical cores would still probably be better than the existing Puma cores.