Xbox One reserves 10 per cent of GPU power for multitasking, Kinect
That's according to Xbox One engineer Andrew Goossen, who told Eurogamer, "Xbox One has a conservative 10 per cent time-sliced reservation on the GPU for system processing. This is used both for the GPGPU processing for Kinect and for the rendering of concurrent system content such as snap mode."
He went on to explain, "The current reservation provides strong isolation between the title and the system and simplifies game development - strong isolation means that the system workloads, which are variable, won't perturb the performance of the game rendering."
Microsoft recently confirmed it has increased the Xbox One's CPU clock speed from 1.6 GHz to 1.75 GHz, and upped the console's GPU clock speed by around 6.6 per cent.
Goossen goes on to say that Microsoft aims to free up some of that 10 per cent of reserved power to developers in future, offering a further increase in the system resources available to them.
"In the future, we plan to open up more options to developers to access this GPU reservation time while maintaining full system functionality," said Goossen.
Microsoft has confirmed an Xbox One release date of November 22, 2013 in 13 markets. The Xbox One price has been set at £430 / €500 / $500.
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Corn_DogPosted:
Pashtun That makes the PS4 60% more powerful instead of 50.
That is a weird way to look at it, never heard anyone say that
Corn_DogPosted:
Dr-JMentalistDr-J-Skillz The kinect is going to kill a lot of GPU lol
It's only when in use I believe, and it's for awesome features
Yep, it doesn't kill any of the GPU when unplugged/turned off.
Well that's good, I might never use my kinect. Unless I have a girl over I'll be like "Xbox: Launch HBO." and boom, the magic happens.
I just use a controller to do that lol
Dr-PonyfilePosted:
Dr-JMentalistDr-J-Skillz The kinect is going to kill a lot of GPU lol
It's only when in use I believe, and it's for awesome features
Yep, it doesn't kill any of the GPU when unplugged/turned off.
Well that's good, I might never use my kinect. Unless I have a girl over I'll be like "Xbox: Launch HBO." and boom, the magic happens.
Hahaha, that's brilliant. But OT I don't think it will kill the GPU that much even when it is turned on I have the Kinect for the normal 360 and it seems to run quicker for me then actually pressing the buttons on my controller.
Dr-JPosted:
MentalistDr-J-Skillz The kinect is going to kill a lot of GPU lol
It's only when in use I believe, and it's for awesome features
Yep, it doesn't kill any of the GPU when unplugged/turned off.
Well that's good, I might never use my kinect. Unless I have a girl over I'll be like "Xbox: Launch HBO." and boom, the magic happens.
MentalistPosted:
Dr-J-Skillz The kinect is going to kill a lot of GPU lol
It's only when in use I believe, and it's for awesome features
Yep, it doesn't kill any of the GPU when unplugged/turned off.
Corn_DogPosted:
A_B_RPawnStarsDr-J-Skillz The kinect is going to kill a lot of GPU lol
It's only when in use I believe, and it's for awesome features
Well sounds like if you unplug it you should be fine then
well I guess the Problem is solved haha
It really doesn't get any easier than that
Corn_DogPosted:
Dr-J-Skillz The kinect is going to kill a lot of GPU lol
It's only when in use I believe, and it's for awesome features
Well sounds like if you unplug it you should be fine then
Dr-JPosted:
-Skillz The kinect is going to kill a lot of GPU lol
It's only when in use I believe, and it's for awesome features
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