PS5 And Xbox Scarlett Feature About 50% Increased Processor Frequency, Says Warface Dev

Warface franchise lead Ivan Pabiarzhyn says this could allow for “previously inaccessible effects.”

[BizarroUltraman]

I'm no tech whiz.. I read 50% and don't see big leap but I could be wrong as usual.

[Hedstrom]

Frequency doesnt realy say much in itself. You need to know cores and threads. Its like saying subject A can move its legs 50% faster than subject B without knowing what subject A and B are. Is A a horse and B an ant? We just dont know

[Mkai28]

Indeed, but we know it's some variation of the Ryzen Zen 2 CPUs. Which is far better then the Jaguar CPU. And it's good even to high end PC standards..

[Hedstrom]

Mkai28: True!

[elazz]

Clock frequency is one thing. Instructions per cycle another. IPC of zen 2 is more than double the jaguar cores of ps4 I think

[conanlifts]

Depends, it is a bigger increase than the PS4 to Xbox One X in frequency. Remember frequency and overall speed are not the same. More shader units, ROPS , texture mapping units etc.

[UltraNova]

I guess all comparisons to specs will be based on the OG consoles, not the enhanced.

Marketing 1:1.

[bluefox755]

If you look at the PC market, the overall speed of CPUs is going up MUCH faster than the average clock speed. So even if it was the same frequency as as the last one, you could still count on a sizeable boost, the fact that it's 50% more is very good news.

[Eonjay]

We are talking about frequency specifically.. so the Pro is 2.1 Ghz. A 50% boost is about 1GHz. So the PS5 would have a frequency of about 3.2 GHz. This is tremendous considering the Zen 2 is already light-years ahead of the Jaguar. A 2 1GHz Zen 2 would destroy a 2.1 Jaguar and even a 3.2 Jaguar.

[Mithan]

cpu will be 3-6x times better than current gen.

[rainslacker]

Frequency determines how fast a chip can process a command instruction, or how fast each cycle executes within the chip itself. It isn't a full measure of how many instructions can be processed per chip cycle.

For example, the CELL in the PS4 was about 80% faster than the PS4 APU. While it could process individual commands 80% faster(disregarding other system bottlenecks), the PS4's APU can process significantly more data in the same cpu cycle due to the amount of processing functions it has within it's architecture.

Between two equal processors....say if you took two i5 processors of the same type, the higher frequency means it could process the same amount of data faster, but not necessarily more per cycle. You'll get more overall data processed within a set time frame with higher clock speeds in this scanario though.

[akaFullMetal]

Gamingbolt, flash and pizazz, no substance though...

[darthv72]

and always seems to be interviewing the warface dev.

[Muzikguy]

Does the dev work for gamingbolt? Another lame attempt at an article by these guys. They sure are hyping the next gen up enough

[elazz]

50% increase in frequency plus double the instructions per cycle would equal around 6 times more performance. Digital foundry did a very detailed research comparing the potential power with current gen and cpu depending on boosts would be between 6 - 8 times more powerful than Ps4 pro - ps4

[rainslacker]

Dunno if that would equal performance like that. The instructions are going to be different, or at least added onto from this gen. Overall data throughput then I guess you could be right.

I know the next gen console processors can do quite a bit, which will show more gains than you'd get with a cursory analysis of the overall processing instructions being executed.

What really matters is how those instructions are used.

[starsi360]

That literally made no sense!

[rainslacker]

Sorry you don't understand how processors work, but there is plenty of info online if you care to learn more.

[Whitey2k]

Even thou it's still an 8 core like the jaguar I guess the processing speed is 50% faster then the current generations

[CuVe]

Cpu frequency. Not cpu speed.

[Whitey2k]

Ooooo ok normally go by the individual core speed

[Artemidorus]

Trollingbolt Dev in full action.

[Pancit_Canton]

Gamingbolt need a new developer source. They been using them like forever.

[Kiwi66]

Surely they are just about running out of the lesser known ones

[ifrit_caress]

Basically it will allow dev's to do more. What matters most is how well the dev's use these features.

[Kumakai]

50% more frequency.... ok. But how many cores, threads, what voltage, etc What’s the net difference in instruction output between now and then? That pretty much tells us nothing.

[Kaedro]

Calm your tits gentlemen, this is just gamingbolt.

[porkChop]

CPU frequency doesn't really mean anything on its own though. What the CPU can do per cycle is more important.

[Mkai28]

Pretty much means how many times the internal clock inside the CPU ticks in cycles per second. The clock inside a PS4 Pro is 2.13 GHz CPU ticks.. Which means 2.13 billion times per second.

But clock frequency isn’t a complete measure of performance. Efficiency, how much work can be done by the CPU in each clock cycle is also important. This is measured in terms of instructions per cycle.

Think of it like this, last generation used jaguar cores, the new consoles will use the newer AMD Zen 2 CPUs. Where they can handle more instructions, and with higher clocks.. This is why you hear them say more stuff on screen , 4K/60fps/120fps..

Edit: 8x Zen2 cores is roughly 4x faster than 8x Jaguar. Roughly 2x IPC and roughly 2x clocks (conservative 3.2 GHz estimate). Also 8x faster for AVX workloads (Jag was 0.5 rate AVX, Zen2 is 2.0 rate) such as ISPC and Unity Burst.