My shares of Sony are doing just fine. Up 25% in the last 2 weeks and climbing. All about dat timing baby
no spiderman money this year.
My shares of Sony are doing just fine. Up 25% in the last 2 weeks and climbing. All about dat timing baby
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That said things are looking very slanted toward Orbis.
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Kind of weird how Sony seems to have ended up with a completely straightforward design and MS has ended up with the "exotic" design. Sony definitely learned their lesson last time around. Seems like a console designed straight up by AMD, rather than some internal pipe-dream. Durango seems to be a console designed around having a large amount of RAM at a reasonable price. If MS didn't have grand plans for the OS side of things, they probably would have ended up with the same console as Sony
Did we get confirmation that Orbis's GPU is similar architectually to that of Pitcairn (7970m) while Durango's GPU is more similar architectually to that of an 8850?
I agree. If the rumours are true, which is looking to be reasonably likely, Orbis will have pretty much across the board advantage with the exception of total available system memory.
Kind of weird how Sony seems to have ended up with a completely straightforward design and MS has ended up with the "exotic" design. Sony definitely learned their lesson last time around. Seems like a console designed straight up by AMD, rather than some internal pipe-dream. Durango seems to be a console designed around having a large amount of RAM at a reasonable price. If MS didn't have grand plans for the OS side of things, they probably would have ended up with the same console as Sony
Right, so it's probably premature to be making claims about which thing we don't know what it is is better than the other.
And the CPU's are exactly the same.
Are they?
The DF article says explicitly that the eight Jaguars in the Orbis SoC will be supported by a "GPU-like Compute module (...) that is not a part of the main graphics pipeline", which implies that we will see some GCN elements dedicated to GPGPU algorithms. A APU in a APU if you want.
Eight Jaguars with 1.6Ghz combined deliver 102.4 GFLOPS. A single GCN CU with 800Mhz delivers the exact same 102.4 GFLOPS. A single CU for GPGPU would simply double the amount of raw processing power of the Orbis CPU. Two GCN CUs would even triple it.
I can't see something like that in the Durango block diagram. Since Durango is rumored to be easier to program for than Orbis, wouldn't it be possible that Microsoft goes without a heterogeneous CPU for Durango?
proelite is a liar with zero credibility.Again though, proelite on GAF is saying DF was wrong about the discrete compute unit. He claimed it's just an extra scalar on some shaders ALU's and already factored in to the 1.84 TF's.
And finally learn the location of the secret ARM core and DDR3 stash for the OS, as well as of the 2nd, more powerful extra GPU and missing 16GB of rumored prototype GDDR6.
Both will be a good jump from PS360, so Durango won't be like the Wii or Wii U, where they seem dated on launch date. Just hinges on how interested people are in the OS + Kinect + Live services etc. If they just want straight up gaming, it'll be a tough sell. Market share can shift quickly. The good thing for MS, is people in North America seem to like their services, and they have a good number of Live subscribers tied in that will be resistant to changing brands (online friends they've made over the last gen etc.) Personally, I'd have no issue jumping ship if the other product suits my wants better The interesting part of the Durango launch is going to be when they talk about software and peripherals.