Ps4/Xbox one overclock

[Shifty Geezer]

Does anyone know if the Jaguars in laptops are passively cooled at 1.6, or do they always require a fan? I ask because we see much higher clocked mobile CPUs that are passively cooled. Granted their performance is likely to be much lower, but it makes you wonder whether mobile (or Jaguar) CPUs that don’t normally require a fan could actually be clocked a lot higher when used with one.

Can it be clocked higher? Yes. Faster fans cope with more heat. Water cooling block even higher. Whack up the voltage if necessary. Is it economical (for the intended unit costs and profit margins and sound levels)? No, otherwise Sony and MS would have done it...

"How high can we clock this within targets?"
"We can get up to 2 GHz quite safely and quietly."
"Okay. Let's clock them at 1.6 GHz for no good reason and throw that cheap extra performance away."

Unless one assumes utter incompetence on the part of MS's, Sony's and AMD's engineers, or insanity, the clock rates are very carefully selected.

 

[BRiT]

Such a silly topic. It's as Shifty said.