Sony PlayStation 4 News: PS4 Unlocks The Seventh Core; Developers To Take Advantage!
On Sony PlayStation 4 news, Sony has unlocked the PS4's seventh core, according to Tech Insider.
A few years ago, Sony and Microsoft unveiled their respective gaming consoles to the gaming community. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One had near-identical 8-core processors, but two of those cores were used for assisting the consoles function better. These cores were also used to perform background operations. The rest of those cores were used for the process of the games.
In addition, PlayStation 4 had the better computing chips, which were an advantage over the Xbox One. The PS4's graphics chip was more or less 50 percent more powerful than the Xbox One. The difference in RAM was also an advantage for the PS4 which gave a huge bandwidth advantage.
So for this new Sony PlayStation 4 news, Sony has now unlocked the seventh CPU core of the console, which will make it perform better, according to Neo Win. There was an update to the console, which is opening up developer access to the seventh core of the CPU in a report from the PlayStation 4 software changelog.
This new update will optimize the performance of the PS4 when it comes to games. This update was unlocked because sometimes the PS4 misses the 1080p and 60 FPS benchmark in some major games in the market. By unlocking the seventh core to the developers, this will let them improve the performance of the game, according to sources.
There will be limitations of the usage which most likely will only let them use half of the power of the seventh core and not fully.
Also in this new Sony PlayStation news, developers will also need to patch an existing game for it to use the extra core. The power of the seventh core will vary though, since it will still prioritize the core functions of the console, according to Polygon.
