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Nothing special in those links. Only major change is bandwidth (192 to 176 GB/s).
Already knew an audio DSP was in there (my friend is working on it at AMD). It could have been expected special hardware would do video decoding as well. That leaves the Jaguar cores to do gaming tasks and OS tasks then, which is good.
However, it still doesn't talk about the GPGPU functionality (or Orbis' secret sauce) that everyone here seems to ignore, and that was explicitly stated in Eurogamer's article. Everyone talks about secret sauce of Durango giving 'essential' parity to the consoles, but can't remember that Eurogamer's DF explicitly stated there is one other piece of hardware still missing from the mix and unaccounted for:
There's nothing else interesting in the Orbis anymore except that extra chip and what it will be used for.
Already knew an audio DSP was in there (my friend is working on it at AMD). It could have been expected special hardware would do video decoding as well. That leaves the Jaguar cores to do gaming tasks and OS tasks then, which is good.
However, it still doesn't talk about the GPGPU functionality (or Orbis' secret sauce) that everyone here seems to ignore, and that was explicitly stated in Eurogamer's article. Everyone talks about secret sauce of Durango giving 'essential' parity to the consoles, but can't remember that Eurogamer's DF explicitly stated there is one other piece of hardware still missing from the mix and unaccounted for:
This compute model has been completely ignored, even by VGleaks. I wonder if they have no information on it, or it isn't even in the system anymore.However, there's a fair amount of "secret sauce" in Orbis and we can disclose details on one of the more interesting additions. Paired up with the eight AMD cores, we find a bespoke GPU-like "Compute" module, designed to ease the burden on certain operations - physics calculations are a good example of traditional CPU work that are often hived off to GPU cores. We're assured that this is bespoke hardware that is not a part of the main graphics pipeline but we remain rather mystified by its standalone inclusion, bearing in mind Compute functions could be run off the main graphics cores and that devs could have the option to utilise that power for additional graphical grunt, if they so chose.
There's nothing else interesting in the Orbis anymore except that extra chip and what it will be used for.