That sort of data is completely beyond anything outside of the engineering laboratories though. Sure, they could list power details and test cases and frequencies and whatnot that came up in the research, but expecting them to share that info...?? I feel "the dog's got the bone" is kinda happening here - people who'd like to know specifics are starting to stretch their expectations beyond what's sane instead of just accepting the talk given was as much as make sense factoring in an unknown future. In the past, we had clock speeds and bandwidths and everyone was happy. We never had any specifics on efficiencies.
Like, look at the SSD discussion and whether PC SSDs will be fast enough for next-gen games. We get specs like "7 gb/s" being talked about. No-one asking the manufacturers for "how often do we hit those peak speeds? What are the lowest transfer speeds?" There's no 'Spanish Inquisition' on details with anything except Sony's clockspeeds. What about MS's raytracing figures. "25 Teraflops of raytracing performance." How often? What are the bottlenecks? What are the typical attained performance rates?
This interrogation of Sony's clock speeds is reaching beyond sensible discussion into the ridiculous. It's a discussion point that's running away with itself; I think everyone needs to calm-down and recalibrate their expectations! We're not going to get Sony or AMD's research data.
