Recent content by Tkumpathenurpahl

Like No Man's Sky which is about 12GB and runs on the Nintendo Switch?

Haha I'm exactly the opposite: the older I get, the less I care about the game's story. I think it's because they're almost universally shit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nice. Well worth a purchase for you Xbox guys. It's a really charming, pretty, sometimes rather touching game. Definitely suitable for children, but it touches on the sorts of themes that would probably mean it's best to accompany your kids if they're particularly young.

I keep wondering whether chiplets might somewhat alter the console tiers of the next generation. Rather than the current gap we see between the Series S and Series X, as well as the purported gap between the PS5 and Pro, might there be scope for launch tiers of similar power? For example, a...

I'm not so sure. I think MS handled their dual SKU launch poorly from a developer's perspective, and confusingly from a customer's perspective. 16GB of 14gbps GDDR6 for the Series S and 20GB of 16gbps GDDR6 for the Series X would've made both easy to use for developers and yielded visible...

I think it's as straightforward as this being, pretty much, a GPU upgrade with a 6nm>5nm "free" frequency bump for the CPU. It'll give Sony years of data to determine where the bottlenecks are when it comes to designing the PS6.

The only trouble with the dGPU dock is the fact that it means there's effectively an unused GPU sat doing nothing in a box that's only useable when the portable's plugged in. Wouldn't it be better to allow 2 independent devices to essentially SLI? Whether that's 2 portables, 2 docks, or 1 of...

By attracting millions of players to your platform with exclusive games so you can reap the 30% platform cut of all of the 3rd party content. Such as GTA Online's $1 billion annual income.

Good points, thanks. Even just correcting for my overestimation would put the GPU at ~200w. Hmm, yeah that does start to look a lot more feasible at 6nm. Especially compounded by the rumoured weird clockspeed. I'm not quite settled on it being 6nm just yet though. 6nm wafers being cheaper...

Good point about the new blocks. I'm really looking forward to the die shot. Do you believe the 6/7nm possibility? I don't really buy it. It's a bit tricky to figure out exactly how much of the power budget is being spent exclusively on the CPU, but if we assume (based on a very swift bit of...

To prove that however bad things are, they can always get worse.

What are we all thinking for the layout of the SoC? The rumoured CU count is 60 active out of 64. That would lend itself to adding an additional row of DCU's on each wing of the butterfly, and 4 more in the centre (which on the base model is occupied by cache and primitive units etc). But then...

I smell embrace, extend, extinguish.

I wouldn't be surprised if the GPU can clock to 2.45GHz in the same way that the base model's can clock to 2.23GHz under most circumstances. I expect the lower than 2.23GHz figure relates solely to dual issue SIMD use.

If MS release a portable and it's not compatible with series S games, then they've hamstrung themselves this entire generation for absolutely nothing.