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Microsoft Confirms 53MHz GPU Speed Upgrade For Xbox One
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While it is nice to see a little bump to the specs, seeing Microsoft shuffling around changing specs and polices at the last minute does not inspire confidence in their launch. In fact, it is making me even more leery. They simply do not have their shit together at all and it is making them look desperate and clueless, rather than confident and with everyone on the same page working towards a unified vision.
The PSP was announced at 333 MHz and was underclocked to 222 MHz in retail. It's different in this situation where Sony have specifically said that the PS4 has a 1.84 TFLOP GPU.
crazygambit
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But the PSP was a handheld. The reason they did that was for battery conserving purposes. It makes no sense to do this on a fixed box that's always plugged in. It's not like you can add more cooling power later.
I kinda feel the opposit. It was hard geting information and a lot of BS was said, and now they just say how it is. That it is after Mattrick's leave can't be a coincidence too.
Early specs mean nothing. More power is always welcomed, both devs and gamers are happy.
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6%? No, 53Mhz doesn't even make sense either. What was the point, spec wars?
digoutyoursoul
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Probably the result of hiring former TV executives to build a gaming platform
Ah, thanks. Weird move from MS, but I guess it'll make sense in the future...
or not
Bluekaveli
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And this confirms?
OR perhaps, they upclocked it by 200, and had to downclock it by 147 due to instability.
LOL.
Why? This isn't something that will prevent production. Even if Xbox One's are on the production line right now, the console requires a day 1 patch. The day 1 patch could include the upclock commands as well.
LeeFowler.CU
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CBOAT Microsoft employee that hates Microsoft confirmed.
Not really
ethomaz
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Yes.. official in a MS podcast.
Yeah, who started that one?
I'll bet you anything that the One's cooling solution is better at dissipating heat. Have you seen the cooler?
At the same time I'll bet you that the One will be significantly quieter.
Don't need a rocketscientist to predict that simply because of the huge cooler and huge fan the One is much much better at cooling. Simple by considering that there isn't anywhere nearly as much space available in the PS4.
BruceLeeRoy
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It is a odd thing to announce. They had never confirmed the speed anyway right so it seems like a desperate push to get some type of positive PR out there.
Well its obvious he's a little disgruntled
. I feel the same way sometimes about my employer lol. He talked about lack of leadership within Microsoft which has obviously been true.
That was a deliberate cap on the designed speed of the processor to save on battery life. The PS4 has likely had it's internals designed around the current speed and probably has much less room to upclock than X1 because of being smaller and having an internal PSU.
Can Crusher
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This could mean two things. Either the devkits were under clocked, or there's actually a bump in specs when compared to numbers MS made public. And MS never made clock speed public, so this can very possible mean that there's no actual bump in specs.
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did they actually officially announce what the hard specs were though?
CBOAT has spoken.
CambriaRising
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A wild CBOAT appears!
BibiMaghoo
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Get me a CBOAT translator stat!
You could occasionally give us some positive information, if there was any lol.
Do you mean to say because they never made the specs public that's the case or that the TF figure is now 1.234TF after the up-clock?
Opus Angelorum
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I think that's debatable lol
He says they tweaked from 800 to 853 MHZ - I have seen documents that say that the GPU is going to have 800MHZ and results in 1.23TFlops. So that's indeed a bump in specs when compared to the numbers MS made public to devs.
Kazuma Kiryu
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Cboat has spoken.
OR again, Cerny's been going on about we want to keep on giving more power for devs to use in the future, so they designed around a potential upclock in the first place?
(and yes I know, when he was talking about that he was doing so after mentioning GPU compute)
Just saying it's not out of the realm of possibility. I personally believe the console doesn't need it. But yeah the thought of having even more power is always fun.
CouldBeWorse
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Is it not positive? And was it not just one of many things "announced" in the podcast?
I always found it interesting how the only information he "leaks" is just negative information AFAIK
gaming_noob
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Are you able to hint at any good news?
badcrumble
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Looking at the full Can Crusher post that CBOAT quoted, it looks like he's saying "no" to one possibility (actual speed bump) which might also mean an implicit (but unconfirmed) "yes" to the possibility that the devkits were underclocked.
Also, 6 days until something?
BruceLeeRoy
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Haha I love this man. I am actually getting pretty good at reading Cboat speak now.
Don't feel pissed in your cereal because I make a throwaway joke.
Interfectum
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Cboat giving good MS news would be like Rush Limbaugh praising Obama for anything he's done. The audience would reject it.
Kazuma Kiryu
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Yeah, leaking games is such negative information.
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