Lmao reading some early responses in this thread with people trying to hype up Scorpio's power but not really knowing what they're talking about.
'Wow those clockspeeds are insane' and 'the frequency this is running at is insane' like wth is insane?!? Higher than normal but insane? And what a weird part of the specs to latch on to for your excitement. I suppose when the CPU is an old Jaguar and the GPU is similar to what is running in the Pro, there needs to be something people can exclaim to show this is some kind of 'beast'.
I thought cock cycle speed was a fairly important part about chip specs? There's a law about it and everything.
GPU doesn't seem that similar to what's in the pro but I suppose it depends where you start from. The GPU in the Scorpio is much more similar to a PS4 Pro than a Gamecube for example...but I'd say 40% more compute power is different enough to not be "similar" any more.
The DX12 hardware-based instruction set certainly sounds like it will make a big difference to CPU bottlenecks so in my layman's view that is also enough reason to say they are not "similar" any more.
The PS4 Pro chip is also deliberately designed as two original GPU chips mirrored, to help with compatibility and probably power/heat as well. It's a clever idea but a different one from the Scorpio approach.
In console terms Scorpio is a bit of a beast and early indications (which may be wrong) are that it will only be outperformed by the latest GFX cards in beastly PCs.
IMHO people are right to be excited for it, either because they might get one, or because of what it prompts PS to do next in terms of upping their specs.
I also feel you're being a bit dismissive in two paragraphs about the effort of a team of probably hundreds of people in total, working hard over 3-4 years to try and come up with a good console design.
Do you know what you're talking about? Would be good to know if you are in the games industry or software/hardware more generally...
Fake edit - deliberately left in the mis-spellling at the start - there is something Freudian about debating the worth of something based on a measure of "size".