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Albert Penello ‏@albertpenello 8m
1.75 > 1.6. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/xbox-update-console-full-production-improved-cpu-performance/ …

Albert taking shots.

I doubt he's taking shots against the PS4 with that tweet, might be comparing it to the old Xbox specs as we don't have an "official" PS4 CPU frequency yet.

 

[Cryoflar3]

It's significant in that it's more than we thought it would be, and it will obviously help games, however little that may be. And, no, they gain nothing at all by somehow trying to respond to PS4 using these types of methods. Pretty certain these changes are stuff Microsoft are free to make because they designed well enough, but they aren't things they're doing to try and one up Sony. That would be incredibly dumb and pointless.

Cool, thx for the info.

 

[DonMigs85]

So is PS4 really still 1.6? Maybe they'll reveal it's actually been 2GHz all along

 

[artist]

Still waiting on him to answer questions and provide the chart he promised.

What chart? Fill me in ..

 

[Soi-Fong]

Better hope it doesn't overheat with all these late changes.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Overclock isn't exactly the right word and it's why a lot of people have heating concerns. It's an upclock from what it was previously but it's not over 2GHz so it's not overclocked yet.

That's right.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Nice, the higher the base line the better.

I wonder if Sony ended up increasing their CPU clock.

They probably wouldn't talk about if they did, they don't really need to at this point, though, although it would be cool if Yosh just tweeted "1.9Ghz" and nothing else. Gaf would go insane.

 

[jbug617]

ooo he probably shouldn't go there, the tech heads are about to eviscerate him with a play by play on all the ways PS4 > XBO lol

Don't think he is taking a shot. XB1 was at 1.6 and now it's at 1.75

 

[Coolwhip]

Xbone may catch on fire if used more than 2 hours.

 

[farisr]

Cool. Means better multiplats for all.

 

[Spongebob]

So is PS4 really still 1.6? Maybe they'll reveal it's actually been 2GHz all along

We don't know.

 

[Caronte]

These last hours tweaks doesn't give much confidence in the console's reliability.

This. RROD all over again.

 

[Anony]

meanwhile, i'm overclocking my 2500k to 4.5ghz and still have room to do 5ghz

 

[Bgamer90]

Taking shots, or just point out that they have increased the clock speed?

Yeah exactly. I don't see how that's a dig at the competition.

Gamers trying to start stuff (again, haha).

 

[zainetor]

Its a 100Mhz overclock on a chip that can run at 2Ghz stock.

so it was underclocked?

 

[REV 09]

How many pages GAF?

depends if this is considered good Xbone news or bad Xbone news.

Good: better performance
Bad: lack of vision. incompetent first shift engineers. tier 1 arrogance. increased melting probability.

 

[benny_a]

Better hope it doesn't overheat with all these late changes.

Did you see that thing? It's massive and consoles have lower TDP than the previous generation. It will be fine.

 

[Amir0x]

Don't think he is taking a shot. XB1 was at 1.6 and now it's at 1.75

ah, good call.

 

[PhatSaqs]

How did this news escape cboat?

 

[test_account]

I'm curious how early/late these decisions were made. I hope for Microsoft's case that they really went through proper testing after doing speed increase for both the CPU and the GPU.

Taking shots, or just point out that they have increased the clock speed?

The PS4 CPU is at 1.6GHz if i'm not mistaken, so it could be a reference to that. But it could be both though, simply pointing out that there is a CPU increase.

 

[Dead Prince]

ah, good call.

someone just wanted to bring up the 32 > 16. If not. I did it first.

 

[molnizzle]

Can someone break this down for me in terms of GameCubes?

 

[calder]

I doubt he's taking shots against the PS4 with that tweet, might be comparing it to the old Xbox specs as we don't have an "official" PS4 CPU frequency yet.

That's how I read it.

 

[RedRooster]

Xbone may catch on fire if used more than 2 hours.

Whew, the subtlety. Nice.

 

[Black-Box]

So did they have a good CPU from the start that they just locked on the console and is slowly unlocking the extra mhz?

 

[Spongebob]

Albert's tweet is taking a dig at the PS4, he's referring to the Xbox One's own CPU improvement.

 

[kpaadet]

Everyone should be happy about this. The "weakest" platform getting an upgrade means games that are developed against the lowest common denominator will look better on both platforms.

Poor Wii U.

 

[Megasoum]

Not sure how this makes any sense. If they're boosting the specs obviously they're confident it won't blow up in their faces like the 360 did.

Or they were super confident in the original spec's reliability but now, after seeing the PR nightmare and the pre-order numbers they might have decided to take a bit more of a risk (even if it's still within safe margins).

 

[TheUnsunghero26]

Don't think he is taking a shot. XB1 was at 1.6 and now it's at 1.75

Yup. From the article in the tweet :

About one month after improving the GPU clock speed, Mehdi added that Microsoft just made another technical boost by upgrading the CPU performance to 1.75 GHZ from 1.6 GHZ.

 

[RoboPlato]

So anybody know bow many cores are reserved for the OS for both systems?

2 cores for each. It sounds like that's final for XBO but the PS4 info is kind of old and last I heard they were trying to get it lower but I don't know if they did or not.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Secret sauce confirmed

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

I'm glad to know both consoles are in full production right now.

 

[iMax]

How did this news escape cboat?

Could be the 'September news'. If so, meh.

Albert's tweet is taking a dig at the PS4, he's referring to the Xbox One's own CPU improvement.

Depends how you interpret it.

 

[weekend_warrior]

Overclocking the CPU at the last minute without testing stability before producing tens of thousands of units sounds like a good idea.

 

[satam55]

Is this significant, or is MS trying to make the xbone sound better next to the ps4?

The Latter. When it comes to gaming PCs, The GPU is way more important than the CPU.

 

[soul creator]

Presentation that it came from?

http://www.media-server.com/m/p/ng9deaui

some talk in there about profitability being important. I wonder if they're taking the Nintendo route and selling at a profit from the beginning.

 

[SiRatul]

Yeah exactly. I don't see how that's a dig at the competition.

Gamers trying to start stuff (again).

That's how (or rather why).

 

[spwolf]

so it was underclocked?

cooling probably....

 

[Garrett 2U]

Overclocking the CPU at the last minute without testing stability before producing tens of thousands of units sounds like a good idea.

because I'm sure that is what happened

 

[mephixto]

It's like overclocking a CPU with stock cooler. I don't like it, nothing good comes from that only KFC CPU's

 

[Barzul]

I doubt he's taking shots against the PS4 with that tweet, might be comparing it to the old Xbox specs as we don't have an "official" PS4 CPU frequency yet.

Could be, but that was my initial assumption. Taking shots that is.

 

[mrklaw]

Its a 100Mhz overclock on a chip that can run at 2Ghz stock.

why were they both 1.6 in the first place then? It isn't a power hungry CPU, so why underclock it from stock?

 

[Spongebob]

Overclocking the CPU at the last minute without testing stability before producing tens of thousands of units sounds like a good idea.

I doubt it.

 

[Elios83]

The increase in performance out of this is pretty much irrelevant. Around 10 Gigaflops for a system with a cumulative floating point calculation speed of 1400 Gigaflops.
The upgrade on the GPU was bigger news.
The real news is that they're just going now in production while Sony stated at Gamescom their manufacturing plants were already pumping out PS4s at full speed.
That also explains the lack of a release date, people should be prepared to shortages.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

This. RROD all over again.

No way they would risk that again. It'll be fine.

 

[cm osi]

it's gonna burn

 

[DopeyFish]

Can someone break this down for me in terms of GameCubes?

It's an increase of 2-3 game cubes

 

[RoboPlato]

It's like overclocking a CPU with stock cooler. I don't like it.

It's a small boost on a low power, low heat CPU with a lot of ventilation and cooling. Like the GPU upclock, it should be fine.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Great news.



What if he actually wasn't serious about it? Gee, some of you really invest your feelings on this plastic boxes.

Look at you lol. I know he wasnt serious neither was I. It was just funny.

 

[RedRooster]

Overclocking the CPU at the last minute without testing stability before producing tens of thousands of units sounds like a good idea.

I'm sure they just did that, you're right.