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Does anyone know what's going on with DriveClub's IQ? It's the definition of inconsistent. Some edges are nearly perfect while others appear to have no AA at all. There's even 2-pixel wide stepping on some parts of the car. Subpixel AA is similarly a hit and miss.

Some massive changes in the Gamescom demo. Is this closer to what you're looking for? http://youtu.be/e1Q02SZkVCM?t=6m18s Because if it's anything like the first game, you'll have a lot of tracks like that. Isn't that for the original Forza Horizon?

I like this shot.

It's a capture from a video. Should've mentioned that, sorry.

Forza Horizon 2 Clearly 1080p, just curious about the weird AA.

That's only the connection between the headset's logic board and the headset itself. The proprietary connector on the controller has 12 pins by my count, far more than needed for simple stereo and mic.

You're looking at 30W max for an 8-core 2 GHz Jaguar CPU, up 8W from maybe ~22W at 1.6 GHz. Maybe too much for a post-design overclock for sure, but it's ridiculous to claim that 2 GHz wasn't chosen at launch due to heat/efficiency concerns. Especially in the PS4 where it's dwarfed by the GPU.

Does DDR4-2133 perform better than DDR3-2133?

Anand also wrote that before he even tested Jaguar. I'd guess that the decision to limit the CPU to 1.6 GHz is for yield reasons, not due to concerns about Jaguar's power efficiency at 2 GHz.

I'm guessing this is based upon Anand's remarks about the consoles idea clock speed? The heat concerns are unsubstantiated for a couple of reasons: 1. TDP != power consumption, especially when you're isolating the CPU from an SoC. Anand showed this himself in his Kabini review when he recorded...

I know the CPU cores and GPU mostly use automated place-and-route, but what about the other components? It's a bit annoying to see the Xbox 360 stuck on 45nm and I was wondering whether higher portability could have an impact on shrinks in the future.

Doubling the numbers is disingenuous because those are power measurements for the entire platform/laptop (A4-5000) and the whole SOC (X1150). Anand also said it's likely the A4-5000 SOC consumes under 10 watts: and the CPU cores would use even less power than that.

"Under 20W" would be more accurate. Anandtech found that the entire A4-5000 platform (4C/1.5 GHz) didn't use more than 11.5W when loading the CPU: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6981/the-kabini-deal-can-amd-improve-the-quality-of-mainstream-pcs-with-its-latest-apu/2 Also, the TDP of the...

8 Jaguar cores at 1.6 GHz probably consumes ~20W. At 2 GHz that would jump to ~30W.

Funnily enough, the Xbox One eliminates this issue entirely since controllers and players are managed by Kinect.