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Is there something I'm missing here? Has the gaming industry overcome the hurdles of parallel execution?
Also your question can not be answered anyway because nobody have access to XBOX One systems
I don't think you measure system speed by summing up cores clock speed. Also your question can not be answered anyway because nobody have access to XBOX One systems
I don't think you measure system speed by summing up cores clock speed. Also your question can not be answered anyway because nobody have access to XBOX One systems
why not? assuming 100% paralalism, isn't it simply the amount of computations you can do in a certain period of time?
Plus a lot of the load will be put onto the graphics processor.
End of the day, what matters is the number of instructions executed in the unit of time, not the number of clock cycles. Clock frequency is just one factor in processor performance. A more efficient microarchitecture can easily beat a "faster" (clock speed-wise) processor, as it's been the case with Pentium 4's NetBurst vs Core.
It's worth noting that the Xbox 360 uses a PowerPC architecture while the Xbox One will use a x86 core. That will make just strictly comparing Ghz difficult.
Let's look at the apple transition from powerpc to intel chips. Geekbench has a reasonable number that we can look at to compare against, so let's use that. http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks
We can see that the one of the late 2005 Power Mac G5 had 2 2.3 Ghz cores. This garnered a score of 2088.
About a year later, a mac mini was on the market using an Intel chip. In this case, the Intel Core Duo T2300 which runs at 1.66 Mhz with 2 cores. This received a very similar score of 2128, even though it is running considerably slower.
Later on in the years, I can come up with a Mac Mini (Mid 2011) that has an I5 running at 2.3 Ghz (The same as the original PPC we're comparing to). However, this gets a score of 5818, more than double the original PPC I picked.
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My only point here is that it is VERY difficult to use processor speed as a tool to compare processors. It's even difficult to use it to compare a Xeon vs an I5, even though they both use the same architecture and are made by the same company.