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Sony unlocks PS4's 7th Processing Core for developers.

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On Jan 2015, Microsoft unlocked it's Xbox One's 7th processing core for more performance to use and it meant losing a few features including voice commands and disabling Kinect functionality.

 

Now that Sony has rolled out a new Software Development Kit (SDK) to developers to unlock that 7th processor core in PS4.

 

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More performance, hooray.

Whether it'll still beat equivalently priced PCs, we'll have to see. My prediction? No.

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1080P? or still the lower resolution crap?

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More performance, hooray.

Whether it'll still beat equivalently priced PCs, we'll have to see. My prediction? No.

Yep.. No.  :P

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They unlocked the 7th core of the potatosole? Why not all 8 cores?

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They unlocked the 7th core of the potatosole? Why not all 8 cores?

They probably have 1 core always free for the home screen feature or whatever, probably also for messages, etc.

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They unlocked the 7th core of the potatosole? Why not all 8 cores?

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1080P? or still the lower resolution crap?

Usually, resolution only affects the gpu, so I wouldn't expect a change there.

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great. Probably will have laggy menu's like ps3 did in game. 

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Like 1 core is gunna make ANY real differences that You or I will see....

 

A game is gunna come out.. AND....

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If it heightens the pesky MIN-FPS values then Sweet!, but thats still IMO a lacking GPU power issue, not entirely a CPU given FPS drop. Again.. IMO.

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great. Probably will have laggy menu's like ps3 did in game. 

 

^this. I would prefer to have an upscaled 900p image but have a smooth user experience (that's why I bought it for, god damn it!) rather than have slightly better graphics or 35-40 instead of 30 fps.

 

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I doubt the CPU is the limiting factor in most games.

 

Like others have mentioned this makes me interested in what this will do to the background interfaces and such.

I haven't played a ton of games on my PS4 but the ones I have played allowed me to smoothly and seamlessly go to the main menu, set up party chat and what other functions I needed to while the game was still running.

I'm not sure I'd rather have a slight performance boost in games but have to trade the smoother background use that I've had so far.

The PS3 was agonizingly slow when you'd try to use the background menu while playing a game.

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Usually, resolution only affects the gpu, so I wouldn't expect a change there.

 

not necessarily, it depends on where the bottleneck is.

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I doubt the CPU is the limiting factor in most games.

 

Like others have mentioned this makes me interested in what this will do to the background interfaces and such.

I haven't played a ton of games on my PS4 but the ones I have played allowed me to smoothly and seamlessly go to the main menu, set up party chat and what other functions I needed to while the game was still running.

I'm not sure I'd rather have a slight performance boost in games but have to trade the smoother background use that I've had so far.

The PS3 was agonizingly slow when you'd try to use the background menu while playing a game.

 

they're just desperate to get this generation to 5-6 years of relevance. they aren't concerned about keeping the experience smooth anymore.

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hm... whether or not this increasing the gap consoles have on similarly priced PCs I doubt it. But the PS4 is already insane value.

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More performance, hooray.

Whether it'll still beat equivalently priced PCs, we'll have to see. My prediction? No.

 

 

I doubt the CPU is the limiting factor in most games.

 

Like others have mentioned this makes me interested in what this will do to the background interfaces and such.

I haven't played a ton of games on my PS4 but the ones I have played allowed me to smoothly and seamlessly go to the main menu, set up party chat and what other functions I needed to while the game was still running.

I'm not sure I'd rather have a slight performance boost in games but have to trade the smoother background use that I've had so far.

The PS3 was agonizingly slow when you'd try to use the background menu while playing a game.

 

Doubt it though it will help it against equivalently priced PCs however it will help it close the gap between it and the Xbox one in terms of CPU power. Hopefully this means that we won't run into situations like in AC Unity where the PS4 was severely bottlenecked by it's CPU struggling to cope with the crowd simulation.

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They probably have 1 core always free for the home screen feature or whatever, probably also for messages, etc.

the PS4 has a ARM Co-processor dealing with minor system tasks... the last core is prolly just for core OS alone...

 

messaging can easily be done by the ARM core

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Is that a skin or something on the ps4 in the pic or do they look like that from the factory?

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not necessarily, it depends on where the bottleneck is.

It doesn't depend where the bottleneck is, resolution always puts the stress on the gpu alone, the cpu doesn't see a difference. Let's say you were already cpu bottlenecked at 1080p, lowering the resolution would not give you more fps. On the other hand, if you were bottlenecked by the gpu, lowering the resolution would help you with fps.

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I predict new consoles by 2018.

 

Since it's already struggling

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And this means that customers will see benefits from this, right?

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Is that a skin or something on the ps4 in the pic or do they look like that from the factory?

Got it from a Google Search. Looks like a Carbon fiber skin.

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And this means that customers will see benefits from this, right?

Probably I guess. But nothing much.

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