Microsoft's Xbox One engineers reveal more about console's CPU
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.
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Corn_DogPosted:
ImgBurn this will be the best console cant wait to get it
It most certainly be a great console, best? Idk
Corn_DogPosted:
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
JimboPosted:
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.
Corn_DogPosted:
-SkillzPawnStars-SkillzPawnStarsMobil Cant wait for the Xbox One.
1Month and 9days.
I think you have your days confused lol
That's when the PS4 comes out
Lol fail. I can't wait to get both of them
if i could i would get both but I don't have that much extra money for gaming
what little money i have for gaming i'll use on games now lol
I have been saving uo money for years and doing small jobs. I do babysitting a lot..take over people's shift when they are busy..walk dogs..much more. I still have some left over I'm going to start saving for something else in the future
I have a job but i also have bills lol
-SkillzPosted:
PawnStars-SkillzPawnStarsMobil Cant wait for the Xbox One.
1Month and 9days.
I think you have your days confused lol
That's when the PS4 comes out
Lol fail. I can't wait to get both of them
if i could i would get both but I don't have that much extra money for gaming
what little money i have for gaming i'll use on games now lol
I have been saving uo money for years and doing small jobs. I do babysitting a lot..take over people's shift when they are busy..walk dogs..much more. I still have some left over I'm going to start saving for something else in the future
Corn_DogPosted:
-CP But Uncle Microsoft, why not 80 cores? MOAR COARS = MOAR POWAAAAAAAAAA
can i has moar crayon, errr i mean cores
Corn_DogPosted:
A_B_RPawnStarsA_B_R The ultimate gaming console... well done Microsoft!
the ultimate *entertainment console... haha ;p
Yeah haha. the thing is pretty beast though!
i was seeing if anyone would notice that lol
Corn_DogPosted:
Jibbers i hope it was worth the half a grand i spent for it
I'm sure it will be, you'll be happy :)
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