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I don't even see the "mods" or any other gaming relevant additions except stripping the GPU from its PC shackles and putting everything in an APU.

I am disappointed not because of the TFlops, compute units, etc. but I hoped for at least some really special engineering. A downclocked off-shelf GPU, Jaguar cores and 4GB RAM is probably the easiest and cheapest way of designing a console. Is AMD really that far behind and simply can't show...

How much "real-life" implications would it have on the PS4 if the bandwidth gets reduced to 176GB/s (rumoured at NeoGAF) and wouldn't that make PS4 and Durango a lot closer? I saw some postings there and so far I couldn't find a valid reason why Sony would deviate from the 192GB/s target. GDDR5...

I guess those secret sauce compute units and what we don't know yet won't be a method to ensure some sort of backwards compatibility?

Thanks for the link. I hoped for 4 Steamrollers but it really looks like that the RAM (bandwidth versus amount) and the special/custom elements decide which console is "better".

If I remember correctly some very capable guys have been working on Playstation Edge (debugger, profiler, etc.). I read a few presentation from GDC 07 which looked quite promising and if that team still works for Sony including the ICE team I think Sony might not be far behind MS. I don't know...

Would that mean that the GPU has 2 busses/memory interfaces for each pool of memory? That might explain the "lower" 100GB/s bandwidth for the eSRAM because both are on a 256Bit bus and higher eSRAM bandwidth would complicate things?

720 with LiveWall + Kinect 2 + 2/3 times more powerfull than PS4 for 399 I honestly doubt that...

Maybe he did not talk about the amount of memory but rather the BUS width...

I wonder if MS will go again with the approach of "tile-based" (big tiles) rendering and uses a smaller eDRAM configuration for the framebuffer. If I didn't make a mistake at 4xFSAA and 1080p you need about 64MB - might be too expensive for MS. However if they want to have both front and...

Like mentioned before 4GB and 192GB/s is rather good - unless the PM specified any other information we don't know about. *wink* *wink*

I am not sure what is the best way for Sony when it comes to DDR4 and GDDR5 - both have their drawbacks especially if the desired bandwidth rumours are true. My main question is what is Sony taking so long since the current rumours point to a rather conservative hardware design. Either Sony is...

Thanks for the information. So wouldn't that speak in favour of the 8GB DDR3 RAM rumour?

Why doesn't it make sense? I am sorry I really don't know much about memory sizes/bandwith and in this case probability/cost. Do you have some easy "math" example?

Why the move back from Steamroller to Jaguar? If I remember correctly I saw a AMD roadmap with them scheduled for Q4 2013 today from a presentation at CES by Lisa Su.