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GamesOnDaily recently interviewed Dirt 5 Technical Director (David Springate) about the next-gen consoles and as a collective the interviewers threw a bunch of gotcha questions to get David to slip and confirm fanboy fantasies about XSX power or advantages... Needless to say David delivered, but not what Dealer_Gaming and company were expecting...
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In light of recent events and real-time face-off results however; this particular question leaves a lot of questions unanswered still on what seems like an endless debate for the time being...
Question: I am expecting the XSX to kind of go.. further than the PS5, like, as the gen goes on...can we talk about that... just the raw specs, that's, that's a big divide .That's a significant power divide no?
David: It really does depend though. Let's go back to that scenario where 2 teams at AMD get split off. There is a conversation that's happening there between that team and the costumer (Sony or MS). Sony said, look, we want this thermal throttling thing (Smartshift). How far is it gonna push the hardware? Because now you've got so many hardware threads in CPU... you could churn through...as we learned on DIrt 5, you could churn through code really fast. And that leaves me with a lot of headroom to overclock the GPU and how much further is it gonna go, and the optimizations for that might be different because of the layouts of the CU on XSX in contrast, so umm.. I am just not sure. We're gonna have to wait and see.
(BTW this is the same interview where this particular developer debunks the idea of the Xbox Series X GDK being bad/poor/or whatever descriptive the fanboy narratives has it as - it's the prior question to this one if you want to listen to it - just rewind a bit).
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So, what do you think? Feel free to discuss.
Is Smartshift paying off for PS5?
Is the XSX more powerful, or you're just not sure anymore in light of recent events, real world results, and comments from devs?
Are you in wait and see mode?
Is this the end of the Teraflop?
Timestamped.
In light of recent events and real-time face-off results however; this particular question leaves a lot of questions unanswered still on what seems like an endless debate for the time being...
Question: I am expecting the XSX to kind of go.. further than the PS5, like, as the gen goes on...can we talk about that... just the raw specs, that's, that's a big divide .That's a significant power divide no?
David: It really does depend though. Let's go back to that scenario where 2 teams at AMD get split off. There is a conversation that's happening there between that team and the costumer (Sony or MS). Sony said, look, we want this thermal throttling thing (Smartshift). How far is it gonna push the hardware? Because now you've got so many hardware threads in CPU... you could churn through...as we learned on DIrt 5, you could churn through code really fast. And that leaves me with a lot of headroom to overclock the GPU and how much further is it gonna go, and the optimizations for that might be different because of the layouts of the CU on XSX in contrast, so umm.. I am just not sure. We're gonna have to wait and see.
(BTW this is the same interview where this particular developer debunks the idea of the Xbox Series X GDK being bad/poor/or whatever descriptive the fanboy narratives has it as - it's the prior question to this one if you want to listen to it - just rewind a bit).
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So, what do you think? Feel free to discuss.
Is Smartshift paying off for PS5?
Is the XSX more powerful, or you're just not sure anymore in light of recent events, real world results, and comments from devs?
Are you in wait and see mode?
Is this the end of the Teraflop?
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