The rumor is from a pretty detailed reddit thread. And from what i recall they only had 8gb of it so the cost wasn't the factor. The power savings from 16gb ddr4 and 8gb hbm2 were apparently enough to push the clocks to 1.8 ghz which matches the gonzolo leak.
Not sure what Sony are using but judging by Lisa saying Microsoft "Co-engineered" the APU with them and the fact that DirectX12 was the first software supporting real-time raytracing when the RTX cards came out, I think they should be able to have the Scarlett well optimized for raytracing at launch. Especially with roughly a year and a half left to optimize DX12 and all its drivers for launch.
If you remove all the benefits it has, then it has no benefits. That's a simple approach.
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i did imagine they'll listen to dev's feedback after they the devs spend some time with it. They won't act on first impressions from devs.
Counter Question: What would lockhart achieve if they still want all the games on og xbox one?
You're not the only one. At this point with the info we have, there isn't much to go on besides custom everything frankly.
While I am not expecting HBM..... just letting you know that no announced Navi GPU using HBM doesn't mean anything with regards of it making its way into a console. HBM isn't tied to Vega architecture. Its just RAM and memory controllers. XB1 OG had DDR3 Ram after all and yet shipped with a PU architecture whose counterparts were using GDDR5.
Yeah HBM2 is nonsense. The whole story made no sense.
"Next Lefel" lmao... smh.
Not falling for their PR. We saw what they tried to do last gen. If Phil didn't say that at E3 where all eyes were on them then they aren't confident. That guy said the most powerful, emersive console. Not the most powerful and emersive console.
I just don't see why 3rd parties would be unhappy with it. With the machine targeting 1080p and still having raytracing and SSD it would likely be able to deliver better graphics than the big ones targeting 4K and higher.
The dilemma for the developers is that, without Lockhart you can target the high-end consoles (Anaconda, PS5) in which case, the power difference is negligible and the optimisations/sacrifices imperceivable.
It could hold back what next gen games are able to achieve, for example Sony said Spider-Man couldn't get any faster because the console just wouldn't let us but on PS5 he can go as fast as a jet, that's one aspect of it.
