WYP
News Guru
AMD "Magnus" CPU leak suggests HUGE next-gen console upgrades.
Read more about AMD's rumoured "Magnus" custom processor.
Next-Gen AMD "Magnus" console APU leaks - Zen6 and BIG GPU
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Read more about AMD's rumoured "Magnus" custom processor.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I see why they choose to have different CPU cores but it always just makes it more difficult for developers. I'm sure they did their homework.
WYP
News Guru
It's always a balancing act. Using all big cores would eat up die space. With three big cores, developers should be able to place their primary threads on these cores and use the others for minor tasks.
At least with AMD's Zen cores the standard and C versions are very similar. The main changes are in caches and silicon density (which impacts max clock speeds). This design gives some big cores for the workloads that need it, but keeps everything else compact. Developers will just need to know to push the highest loads onto the bigger cores.
Perfect multi-threading is never going to be a thing for games, so this kind of design makes sense. In a sense, using an all-big-core design would be a waste.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Yeah that's my point though. Puts more on the developers plate. Makes it more difficult so hopefully whoever uses this rumoured chip develops/maintains good tools and libraries to make it easier on game development.
