Does that actually matter for PC gaming?
Series X and S consoles, there are details concerning the next all-new Xbox console, due in 2028. The biggie? Microsoft is seriously considering a switch away from x86 CPU cores to Arm.
Some of the details in the leaked documents are less exciting than they superficially seem. For instance, at the time the documents were composed in 2022 Microsoft was planning on using AMD's Navi 5 graphics tech. That's two generations ahead of current AMD graphics cards. Moreover, the mere fact that MS plans to use a future AMD graphics technology is not only a given, it also doesn't tell us anything about the technology's capabilities. The documents do include some details revealing Microsoft's aspirations for the graphics core, including next-gen ray tracing, global illumination and AI-accelerated upscaling. But those are all pretty obvious extrapolations of existing graphics capabilities.
For instance, Intel and AMD both use the x86 ISA. But they offer very different CPU architectures and core designs. That's important, because there are two major dimensions to any switch from x86 to Arm. Obviously there's the ISA change, but that says relatively little about the actual CPU core design.
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