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:
TX_F1ERCE_TX Ahhhh! I can't wait! To bad GS won't transfer over to XBONE.
what do you mean by that? why wouldn't it?
Corn_DogPosted:
-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
-SkillzPosted:
PawnStarsMobil 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
Corn_DogPosted:
Mobil Cant wait for the Xbox One.
1Month and 9days.
I think you have your days confused lol
That's when the PS4 comes out
-SkillzPosted:
PawnStars how did i know all this controversy would happen
Umm because it is Microsoft
Corn_DogPosted:
Dr-PonyfileMentalistAggie I really cannot wait for this to be released.
Same here, I'm going to get the X1 later, getting the PS4 first.
Both consoles will be at the top of the charts but when they release it will be interesting to see who comes out on top. Especially with all the exclusives each of the consoles have its a shame I would rather have all the games on one console not two lol.
I don't think there would ever be a monopoly in the game market, would be too good to be true
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