Microsoft's Xbox One engineers reveal more about console's CPU

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Earlier this week, Eurogamer posted an excerpt from a long interview with two of Microsoft Xbox One hardware engineers, where they revealed that game developers will be able to access the 10 percent of the console's GPU that's being used for other features sometime in the future. Now, the website has posted the full interview with the engineers, Andrew Goossen and Nick Baker, where the two men go deep into hardware details for the Xbox One.

The highly technical interview has lots of information for hardware junkies, including more on the Xbox One's custom APU, which Microsoft co-designed with AMD. The CPU has eight cores based on AMD's Jaguar design. When asked why Microsoft picked this configuration instead of four Piledriver-based cores, Baker stated:

The extra power and area associated with getting that additional IPC boost going from Jaguar to Piledriver... It's not the right decision to make for a console. Being able to hit the sweet spot of power/performance per area and make it a more parallel problem. That's what it's all about. How we're partitioning cores between the title and the operating system works out as well in that respect.

The Xbox One has 15 processors inside the system on a chip, according to Baker, "eight inside the audio block, four move engines, one video encode, one video decode and one video compositor/resizer." The audio block was designed completely by Microsoft and made to handle 512 simultaneous voices for audio in games. It can also handle the speech pre-processing for the Kinect add-on.

Posted: Oct 06, 2013 7:14 pm
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-xbox-one-engineers-reveal-more-about-consoles-cpu

Comments

Corn_DogPosted: Thu. Oct 10, 2013

Still going to be really smooth though

Corn_DogPosted: Thu. Oct 10, 2013

Dr-J
PawnStars
-Skillz The CPU is going to be way better hopefully

It's going to be good, that's for sure

Yeah it's a little better than ps4s but ps4 has the GPU

It actually looks like they will still be the same, Sony also had a trick up their sleeve when Microsoft upped their CPU

Sony the PS4 CPU is faster than previously thought at 2.75 GHz. But since we know how AMD has designed the Jaguar its possible Sony is saying the PlayStation 4 will use AMD Turbo Core. So its possible the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will share this same potential.

:)

Dr-JPosted: Thu. Oct 10, 2013

PawnStars
-Skillz The CPU is going to be way better hopefully

It's going to be good, that's for sure

Yeah it's a little better than ps4s but ps4 has the GPU

Corn_DogPosted: Thu. Oct 10, 2013

-Skillz The CPU is going to be way better hopefully

It's going to be good, that's for sure

Corn_DogPosted: Thu. Oct 10, 2013

-Skillz Xbone is going to dominate PS4

lol, please go look at the numbers

they don't lie...

-SkillzPosted: Wed. Oct 09, 2013

The CPU is going to be way better hopefully

-SkillzPosted: Wed. Oct 09, 2013

Xbone is going to dominate PS4

Corn_DogPosted: Wed. Oct 09, 2013

SliceFX
Lia
Chloe_xD
daRealRush
PawnStars
JimboSlice Since it can handle all of those voices will it have more players for parties? Or does that not work like that? Either way more than 8 people in a party would be awesome.

Idk 8 always gets to chaotic for me, can't imagine anymore

I have to agree, 8 people in one party is insane. But, I would like to have the option to have a few more people in a party, other than 8!

I think they should make it like 18 because then you could have a whole game in the party :) x

18, that would be insane. When there is 8 people in a part at once, well atleast in my expereience, there is always more than one person trying to talk at the same time. It just gets too out of whack. If there is 18 people, it would be wayyyy too crazy.
Depends if your friends are mature or not...

what if they made these 2 person parties and like nobody else could go in them. It would be kind of private, they should look into that

;p

TomorrowLandPosted: Wed. Oct 09, 2013

Lia
Chloe_xD
daRealRush
PawnStars
JimboSlice Since it can handle all of those voices will it have more players for parties? Or does that not work like that? Either way more than 8 people in a party would be awesome.

Idk 8 always gets to chaotic for me, can't imagine anymore

I have to agree, 8 people in one party is insane. But, I would like to have the option to have a few more people in a party, other than 8!

I think they should make it like 18 because then you could have a whole game in the party :) x

18, that would be insane. When there is 8 people in a part at once, well atleast in my expereience, there is always more than one person trying to talk at the same time. It just gets too out of whack. If there is 18 people, it would be wayyyy too crazy.

Depends if your friends are mature or not...

DissPosted: Wed. Oct 09, 2013

Chloe_xD
daRealRush
PawnStars
JimboSlice Since it can handle all of those voices will it have more players for parties? Or does that not work like that? Either way more than 8 people in a party would be awesome.

Idk 8 always gets to chaotic for me, can't imagine anymore

I have to agree, 8 people in one party is insane. But, I would like to have the option to have a few more people in a party, other than 8!

I think they should make it like 18 because then you could have a whole game in the party :) x

18, that would be insane. When there is 8 people in a part at once, well atleast in my expereience, there is always more than one person trying to talk at the same time. It just gets too out of whack. If there is 18 people, it would be wayyyy too crazy.

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