Without knowing more about Polaris, we can't say for certain what the PlayStation 4's upper performance boundary is, but we can take a rough guess at what the minimum performance improvement looks like. While the comparison is not exact, the GPU inside the PlayStation 4 closely resembles a trimmed version of AMD's HD 7870 / R9 270. It so happens that AMD sold a Hawaii-class GPU with exactly 2x the R9 270's core count -- the R9 290. Eyeballing the performance improvement from the R9 270 to the R9 290 should give us a very rough idea of what to expect (Anandtech's Bench tool(Opens in a new windo
Sony PS4K 'Neo' will target 1080p minimum resolution, upcoming titles universally compatible…But shrinking die sizes and an end to historic voltage scaling have made it harder and harder to hit high frequency targets. DARPA has a new project to cool processors through the…
…Microsoft is only saying that it's heavily customized the core to noticeably improve its overall performance. We've speculated before about how MS might accomplish that -- Jaguar definitely had some low…
…Do GPUs Degrade in Performance Over Time? AMD’s RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT Reviewed: RDNA Puts Radeon Back in the Game AMD’s Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X…
…If the company hits that target, it would give it a significant potential cost advantage over its foundry rivals -- but only if the EUV hardware is ready to come online. Betting and…
…DeepMind was able to analyze their performance and recommend a number of improvements in the placement and use of things like windows and cooling units. The practice saved Google "percentage points" on…
…It's willing to pay a die and performance penalty to try and hit those targets, and it's picked a launch moment when there's very little competition in the market…
…In terms of performance per watt, though, the Xeon (~150W TDP) is probably just ahead of the Power8 -- but in general, when you're talking servers, power consumption generally plays second fiddle…
…Speed matters on the Internet, and Google has been focused on improving web performance for years. A joint blog post (Opens in a new window) by Robert Obryk and Jyrki Alakuijala describes…
…Iwinski took responsibility for the decision to launch the title and its subsequent unacceptably poor performance on the base Xbox One and PlayStation 4. (Opens in a new window) The video covers…
…Multi-threaded performance is essentially flat. Cinebench R20 Cinebench R20 repeats the performance pattern of R15. The 3950X again leads single-threaded performance, though the 10980XE picks up about 5 percent compared…