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Apparently the possible specs of the PS4 dev kits has been leaked. Biggest thing I think is this: 8 GB or 16 GB of RAM. That is quite a jump if true. Deepest source I found: http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/01/ps4_details_playstation_4/
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though so I'm not automatically alarmed if they pick a one-chip solution. What I've skimmed of the A10 though, I am a bit puzzled of the choice, assuming it's true. Maybe it's like old 360 dev boxes with PowerPC 970 CPUs, developing for a system that would have a Xenon processor? A sort of related, placeholder chip?
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GPU's are "general" in that they can do tasks not related to graphics, like scientific computing. Still a bad choice for regular computing tasks, and the APU isn't "GPGPU-like" as the SPU of the Cell is, it's "APU" as in "we pout a GPU and a CPU on one chip" they're still separate processing units.
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Also yes older processors are built into the CPU and the GPU, sound functions work fine on a CPU and physics functions work fine on a GPU too. But can't be done with the CPU n GPU, their architectures are too different. A10 could be a placeholder chip, though it's still bode ill for capabilities of PS4.
