Why were the 2013 Xbox One and PlayStation 4 equipped with 8 Jaguar CPU cores? To my understanding, most consumer PCs back then only had 2-4. Of course those Jaguar cores were basically Atom-tier in terms of performance (since they were designed for tablets/cheap laptops) but I'd imagine developers weren't exactly used to making multithreaded games at that point in time.
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>>108533075It's a serious question. Console hardware, especially in that early transition to x86, has always sorta fascinated me. I had no idea the XB1 had a dedicated 32MB pool of ESRAM to make up for the slow DDR3.
>>108533071>xbox one>2013that cant be right, the xbone released just last year...
>>108533071PS3's Cell CPU was already sort of multithreading and XB360 had 3 cores.
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>>108533071because they were designed shortly after the 2008 recession and costs had to be kept as low as possible
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>>108533071Because AMD were the only company capable of providing at least usable CPU cores on the same die as an actually performant GPU. Even now they're basically unmatched in that department which is why the Xbox Series, PS5 and all those funny handheld game PCs still use them. The Jaguar cores are simply a consequence of wanting to keep power and/or cost down and AMD not having Zen cores ready at the time.
