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by gsnedders 1705 days ago
For the 360, from 2010 production (when they introduced the 45nm shrink), the CPU and GPU was merged into a single chip.
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When they did that they had to deliberately hamstring the SOC in order to ensure it didn’t outperform the earlier models. From a consistency of experience perspective I understand why, but it makes me somewhat sad that the system never truly got the performance uplift that would have come from such a move. That said there were significant efficiency gains from that if I recall.
Yup. Prior they were absolutely different dies just on the same package