It would have been a new APU. Vastly different power profile. It isn't just the GPU side of the APU that you are looking at when you begin to make such changes.
Exactly, it was an example of why it's pretty unlikely to have changed the Oberon silicon to something else in 2019.
Ok... fair enough then. Guess we will see how it all plays out.
As for anything that is pushing 2Ghz, yes; I would doubt it. Based on what we have seen from 7nm GPUslast year. Now if they somehow using a more mature 7nmnode, or even 7nm+ or 7nm EUV and that somehow means higher clocks and manageable heat... then fine. I am all for that. But if that was what sony is banking on, doesn't that mean on the same process MS can just push the clocks of their 56CU GPU even higher and end up with something like 13TF+ to sony's 9TFGPU?
If MS has 56 CUs and Sony has 36 CU, it means MS's power and heat envelope is higher than Sony's. Whatever AMD's abilities are in 2020, MS and Sony knew and planned for them. It's not like MS or Sony changed the node suddenly, they are using whatever they can use in 2020. Going from 1.8Ghz to 2Ghz is just an 11% increase, if Sony has sufficient cooling to handle 1.8Ghz, they might have enough to handle 2Ghz.
Maye because back then MS also thought they would have twice the RAM? Also thought that kinect 2.0 and their TV push was going to mean a lot more to consumers than having more power? Were already coming in at being more expensive and couldn't really make their console be any more expensive and bigger than it already was going to be? Don't forget, Kinect was bundled in. Unless they wanted a $600 console. Kinda like how the only way a 36CU GPU makes sense now is if sony is going for a $399 console, but if they are going with a 52CU GPU then surely that will mean they are going for a $499 console.
I know what you are trying to do, but if you must... then be fair. Don't talk like all MS had to do back then was just add a few more CU or as if that is what I am saying sony would be having to do here. As far as MS was probably concerned, they looked at the price of being more or as powerful then that sony was paying was that sony wold Sony have 4GB of RAM. And they felt having 8GB of RAM would have given them the edge. And the only way the could have done that at the time was to have DDR3 and ESRAM.
Well, maybe Sony had a 36 CU @1.8Ghz GPU because they wanted to build a 399$ console and upgrading to 12TF+ all of a sudden will make that plan invalid. So as you see, when you know a company's plans, suddenly it makes sense for a console to be not what you've expected. That's my point, changes are hard at a late stage and any level of power makes sense for any console because consoles are built to match a vision, not to be as powerful as possible. Sometimes the vision is power, but it's not always. After all, if PS4's vision was power, it wouldn't have had a weak 1.8TF GPU.
