AMD for the PS4 or something was not able to Nvidia

Neil Robinson (Neal Robison) from AMD in an interview with TechRadar he talked about his company's cooperation with Sony when creating a new home console PlayStation 4Which uses from APU AMD.

"You have no idea how long we've been waiting for this announcement, because we are working on this project for several years," - he said.

According to him, Sony learned from cooperation with Nvidia in developing PS3 and, referring to the AMD, Was determined to change the partner for the creation of components of the new console. Exactly AMD could offer Sony Processor APU, including the CPU and GPU, which was not unique at Nvidia.

Neil Robinson was asked to comment on the words of Tony Tamasi (Tony Tamasi) from Nvidia by the fact that the iron PS4 before the release date and that Nvidia she refused the proposal to create a chip for the new console. He replied: "Well, of course, now they will say so. But these efforts look pathetic. "

"The fact that you can not just take the individual components of our APU and compare them with the existing CPU and GPU. CPU and GPU PS4 They will work in tandem, which is reinforced 8 GB GDDR5 memory with a capacity of 176 GB / s. In this case, the CPU and GPU are not just doing their job, developers will be able to share and move some of the tasks between the CPU and GPU. "

Robinson did not answer the question of whether AMD as a supplier of components for the new Xbox.

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