PS4 configuration revealed

At the first quarter of this year the Sony has revealed the hardware configuration of the PlayStation 4. Although Nvidia didn't want to participate in this project the PS4 will be equipped with AMD Radeon. (See: Nvidia said fuck you PS4). The processor of the PS4 is build according to SoC architecture, ie in a processor chip. These include 64-bit x86 AMD 8-core CPU, code-named Jaguar, AMD Radeon GPU and RAM memory consolidation GDDR5 8GB used for both GPU and the system.

According to what Sony announced, we will have PS4 with a 64-bit x86 CPU developed by AMD, CPU code-named Jaguar. AMD’s Vice President of global Communications and Industry Marketing John Taylor recently elaborated on the APU that is packed in Sony’s semi-announced PlayStation 4 console. At the most basic level, an APU is a single chip that combines general-purpose x86 central processing unit or CPU cores with a graphic processing unit (GPU) and a variety of system elements, including memory controllers, specialized vide decoders, display outputs etc. 

But before PlayStation 4 AMD leveraged the building blocks of its 2013 product roadmap for PCs and created a solution that incorporates the upcoming Jaguar CPU cores with next-generation Radeon graphics which will deliver 2 TFLOPS of compute performance. This will allow developers to fundamentally change the console gaming experience by letting them harness the power of parallel processing.

The accelerated processing unit or APU will consist of eight x64 AMD “Jaguar” cores and a next-generation Radeon GPU comprised of 18 compute units capable of cranking out 1.84 teraflops. The chip will be backed by 8GB of unified GDDR5 RAM which will give 17 GB/s of bandwidth, a built-in HDD, USB 3.0, BLU-ray optical drive, Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless N and more. Note that a Radeon HD 7970 is rated at 3.5 teraflops.

AMD's "Jaguar" is the successor to "Bobcat" which powers current C- and E-Series low-power APUs. The company is expected to launch its first batch of Jaguar-based APUs during the middle of 2013, codenamed as Kabini and Temash. These 28-nm chips will have power envelopes of 15W or less, and up to four cores. This is going to be a very exciting year for gamers, especially for those with AMD hardware in their PCs and consoles, as we have even more game-changing (pun intended) announcements still to come.