AMD Execution Thread [2024]

[DegustatoR]

I've been saying for some time that PS5's and XS's CPUs are in fact too fast for the GPUs these consoles have. Whatever the next generation will be upgrading primarily it sure as hell shouldn't be the CPUs - the main upgrade point should be the GPUs instead. And CPUs could probably do with some +50% of cores and be done with it.

What people seem to completely miss out on is that no matter what CPU a console would have there will always be games made with such... skills... that they will struggle to lock to anything be it 30 or 60 fps. This console cycle has brought some relatively insane CPU improvements and all we got from that was less time/money being spent on optimizing the CPU code in games.

 

[homerdog]

Also as mentioned somewhat above it's worth keeping in mind Zen 2 APUs on the consoles are actually rather slow/behind. Zen 4 (or 5) by itself is a rather significant 50%+ increase already depending on the implementation context. The general direction also is likely to move more off to the GPU or even other dedicated units (eg. decompression this gen).

Even the Ryzen 3600 destroys the 4800S (PS5 CPU) in games. I'm still guilty of forgetting how slow the console CPUs are compared to even midrange PC gaming CPUs. I think "Zen 2" and think it performs in the ballpark of a 3600. That is clearly not the case. I think the lack of cache combined with GDDR is killing it.