[QUOTE="XBOunity"][QUOTE="Domin8ters"]Hmmm Quote: Originally Posted by oldschoolnerd: Not 100% on this, but I think that apart from bandwidth issues, there can be dependencies between the parallel threads. This would prevent linear scaling. The more you parallelise the work the more chance there is of a dependency cropping up and stalling the core. Possibly? It would explain why ms got more by the 6% upclock than enabling the extra 2 CUs. bkilian responds: Adding cores never scales linearly. For their statement to be true on a GFLOPS basis (which it probably isn't), a scaling efficiency of 95.6% per core added would provide 12CUs at 853MHz with the same horsepower as 14CUs at 800. At that (bogus) scaling factor, 18 CUs at 800MHz would only be 7.4% faster than 12CUs at 853MHz. The real scaling factor is guaranteed to be higher than that, but it will still be <1, and the scaling factor probably goes down with increasing cores, since the bottlenecks become even more important. You're going to have a lot more contention for a 256 bit memory bus at 12 cores than at 2. What this means is that in real terms, PS4 does not have, and never had, a 50% GPU advantage. What the actual advantage is, we may never know. Link for reference: http://beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=62867&page=262Kaz_Son
But Kazson knows more than this guy lol. Some random neckbeard virgin basement dweller is still crying ":cry: b...bu.b...but...teh secret sauce!!" and you pathetic losers called lemmings still believe there's some extra hidden power. :lol: This is pure gold, you can't make this shit up. If someone told me at the beginning of last gen that fast-forward 8 years later lemmings would be grasping for straws this bad I would have told them that they were lying.":cry: b...bu...bu...but teh dGPU!"
":cry: b...bu...bu...but the volcano GPU hidden secret sauce that MS will announce in 2014!"
lol, you guys are pathetic..
You can't really blame them, though. Microsoft is the one making $21 billion in profits annually and has $70+ billion in liquid assets. It still blows my mind how a company that has to sell buildings to stay afloat designed a far superior architecture. Mark Cerny is a genius and it just goes to show that 1 talented man is worth more than thousands of overpaid mediocre ones.
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