Megadrive1988
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I forgot, is it known if the Zen 2 floating point pipelines in Xbox Series X are full 256-bit or are they too cut down to 128-bit?
Overall, I think for any future PS6 home hardware, Cerny and team probably already realize that everything will need to go significantly "wider" next time. A lot more GPU Compute Units, or equivalent around 2025-2027, more bandwidth (north of 1TB/sec) and possibly even dividing PS5 silicon into 2 or 3 high-volume 3nm/2nm GAFFET/EUV chiplets (with only 1 GPU rasterizer chiplet assuming putting in 2 will still cause huge developer headaches as well as whatever AMD will have in 2025+) .
Assuming 10th gen consoles happen (~2027+) would inherently have, one way or another, better dedicated HW for RT that's more ambitious and capable than Nvidia Turing and Ampere. Not to mention, more dedicated, less "bolted on" as it seems, with both PC RDNA2 and PS5 RDNA2 (and Xbox RDNA 2 which is more like full PC RDNA 2.
I mean, Microsoft will have to make similar choices, although Xbox Series X is already somewhat "wider" a design than PS5, which is narrow but GPU clock is very high.
Overall, I think for any future PS6 home hardware, Cerny and team probably already realize that everything will need to go significantly "wider" next time. A lot more GPU Compute Units, or equivalent around 2025-2027, more bandwidth (north of 1TB/sec) and possibly even dividing PS5 silicon into 2 or 3 high-volume 3nm/2nm GAFFET/EUV chiplets (with only 1 GPU rasterizer chiplet assuming putting in 2 will still cause huge developer headaches as well as whatever AMD will have in 2025+) .
Assuming 10th gen consoles happen (~2027+) would inherently have, one way or another, better dedicated HW for RT that's more ambitious and capable than Nvidia Turing and Ampere. Not to mention, more dedicated, less "bolted on" as it seems, with both PC RDNA2 and PS5 RDNA2 (and Xbox RDNA 2 which is more like full PC RDNA 2.
I mean, Microsoft will have to make similar choices, although Xbox Series X is already somewhat "wider" a design than PS5, which is narrow but GPU clock is very high.
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