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Looking further into the future nvidia buying arm now means they could have their cpus and gpus in the next generation of consoles instead of amd
by kyriakos 6y ago
Looking further into the future nvidia buying arm now means they could have their cpus and gpus in the next generation of consoles instead of amd
- als0 6y agoExcept AMD has: * better single threaded performance than ARM * the same instruction set as developers' workstations * the willingless to add Microsoft/Sony's hardware IP to the console chips
- stjo 6y ago1) There are many domains that don’t care about single threaded CPU performance or CPU performance at all. I would say gaming is becoming one such domain 2) This might soon change if Microsoft and Apple succeed in their quest to push ARM machines to the consumer market. I can imagine than an ARM macbook is all that's needed to start an avalanche in adoption 3) Willingness can change easily :)
- kyriakos 6y agoOther than the same instruction sets the other two factors can change in the 5 to 10 years that a console generation lasts.