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Considering those crazy clocks it's not going to be more energy efficient, even if it consumes less power in total. 2.25GHz has to be well past the sweet spot for the DVFS curve ...
On this note, am I the only one with the impression that the PS5 engineering team spent the past 48 hours furiously overclocking the APU to see how little of a disadvantage they might come off looking like they have, with marketing breathing down their necks the whole time? A faster SSD does little to compensate for the competition being 15% faster in your best case scenario. The wording also makes me quite sure the PS5 will run slower than this for the vast majority of games. I have no doubt this will still be a good console, but that is a significant disadvantage for sure.
As for "quite a bit of variability for a single manufacturer" - how? They're semi-custom chips, so there would be two pieces of silicon no matter what. And AMD's architectures are built to be modular and can be scaled up and down as wanted/needed. No surprise whatsoever that this is possible.
I think they are banking on how well the PS4 Pro has done vs the One X.
It's decently slower and can't play 4K blurays.
If anything the Sony engineers are probably trying to overclock the memory. I'm also a little surprised that they aren't going for 3.6ghz on the 8cores instead they are giving it a 3.5ghz max boost... Not set, but 'variable'...
Water cooling your console for stable performance...
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The lack of memory bandwidth is going to hammer the PS5 at 4K. I suspect it'll be 1440p with 'image enhancements' console.
Then there's the storage system... It's going to drink power and it's going to be hot.
I'm really not thrilled that both consoles have killed user replacement/upgrades on the flash, and that stuff wears out.
The PS5 is definitely shaping up to be a cheaper console to build so it's likely going to undercut the Series X by $100 USD at least. IMHO