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Guru3D.com » News » Both Xbox and PlayStation to get eight-core AMD Jaguar CPU

Both Xbox and PlayStation to get eight-core AMD Jaguar CPU

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/23/2013 09:20 AM | source: | 32 comment(s)
Both Xbox and PlayStation to get eight-core AMD Jaguar CPU

New rumors indicate that both the Xbox Next and the PlayStation 4 "Orbis" consoles may be powered by an eight-core AMD Jaguar SoC. This chip has a relatively simple design, it should run cool and one of the benefits for Microsoft and Sony is that Jaguar should be relatively easy to manufactur at different foundries, as well as to shrink it to a smaller process node. Details about the graphic chip inside the next-gen consoles are still a mystery, but Sony's console will reportedly have a more powerful graphics engine than Microsoft's next Xbox. Further details about both consoles are expected later this year.

According to Eurogamer.net’s Digital Foundry, both Microsoft Xbox “Durango” and Sony PlayStation 4 “Orbis” are going to be based on highly-integrated system-on-chips featuring AMD Jaguar x86 64-bit cores. The SoCs are projected to be conservatively clocked at around 1.6GHz, which should ensure maximum possible yields as well as low temperature of multi-core solutions. Keeping in mind that video game consoles are designed to last for many years, it is possible that SoCs inside future PlayStation and Xbox will feature certain tweaks, optimizations and innovations that will not be available on personal computers for a while.

The idea to use AMD’s low-power/low-cost cores instead of high-performance x86 cores has both pros and cons. On the one hand, AMD’s Jaguar looks very promising on paper and has a number of advantages that may be especially valuable for game consoles, including 128-bit floating point unit (FPU) with enhancements and double-pumping to support 256-bit AVX instructions as well as an innovative integer unit with new hardware divider, larger schedulers and more out-of-order resources. On the other hand, AMD’s Jaguar is substantially behind the company’s high-end x86 cores when it comes to general-purpose performance and therefore some of the operations may take a long time to complete, unless there are not special-purpose accelerators integrated or the consoles will heavily rely on GPGPU [general-purpose computing using GPUs] technologies.







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PhazeDelta1
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#4507730 Posted on: 01/23/2013 09:45 AM
If the rumors are true, the influx of cash from these consoles might just help AMD with their money issues.

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#4507734 Posted on: 01/23/2013 09:54 AM
If they have the extra production capacity for it, then yes.
If they have to add another to the existing capacity, then it's a bit of a gamble.

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#4507792 Posted on: 01/23/2013 12:38 PM
If the rumors are true, the influx of cash from these consoles might just help AMD with their money issues.

Exactly what I was thinking also....hope it turns out to be true...

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#4507806 Posted on: 01/23/2013 12:59 PM
Yes, would be good if true! The big question is though, what GPU will the consoles use? An AMD GPU would certainly help AMD out even further! If the PS4 has a faster GPU, will the difference only be small (like a GPU core speed bump), or will it be rather large? If the latter is true, what will that mean for PC gamers in terms of console ports?

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#4507808 Posted on: 01/23/2013 01:01 PM
Another set of consoles with the word Jaguar in it...oh no...



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