How will Quad core fair when 8 core Consoles are out?

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  1. Pill Monster

    Pill Monster Banned

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    ^You're forgetting that's 8GB hUMA so roughly 4GB system plus 4GB graphics.
    Regular desktop rigs (not APU's) don't support hUMA so therefore the game doesn't have to address 8GB of ram, only 4GB (since data is copied from system mem to vram).

    Not all console games will support hUMA btw (depends on DX version).
     
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    vbetts Don Vincenzo Staff Member

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    These consoles probably won't have all 8 cores available as resources to a game. There is one big advantage to consoles being x86 now, as you would assume that they would share certain instruction sets. Desktops being clocked higher than 1.6 ghz most of the time double that, having more cache available, and in some cases as far as some intel machines go being multi-threaded helps too. For the cpu department, I think it will fair about the same if the cpus in consoles are used right.
     
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    I.e. you believe that it is possible with mentioned power and noise (and size) limitations to win in performance?

    Does AMD own some state of the art (or mysticism) technology to make their CPU and GPU cold, silent, small and super fast?
     
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