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25 February 2011 introduced the SandForce controllers of the second generation — thus began the era of solid state drives SandForce, which lasted more than two years. Processors for SSD (as they were called in SandForce) first among consumer solutions came close to the ceiling bandwidth of SATA 3.0 (600 MB/s). Solid state drives is finally have a head faster than a hard drive.
The SandForce has its fans and its haters. The reason is the “signature” features of the controller. The most common eight-channel chip SF-2281 — met in very different products: from Low – to High-end. Even today, the drives with this controller is possible to find on sale. For example, the model of the Kingston HyperX FURY. The success of logic is due to work with all types of memory interfaces and large support. SandForce has always provided ready firmware by the developers. In the end the vendor got almost finished product, which could only assemble, package and ship to stores. This controller was used even Intel. There is therefore nothing surprising in the fact that in 2011 and subsequent years SSDS on SF-2281 flooded the market storage devices.
SF-2281 was one of the first chips, which compressed data by passing them in memory. This algorithm saved the lifetime of a SSD. There were some drawbacks. The speed of the drive is changed significantly from the type of processed data (compressible and incompressible). In the first case, the data was processed at the peak performance, whereas over with “difficult” files controller had fairly “sweat”. Plus the speed of the drives was seriously decreased with a significant load of memory.
In 2013, SSD controller SF-2281 lost the competition to the drives on the Marvell chips, and Samsung.
Kingston HyperX FURY based on the controller SandForce SF-2281
25 February 2012 it became known that the console PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will get the stuffing from AMD. In the end, both consoles have 8-core hybrid processor AMD Jaguar and 8 GB of DDR3 memory. The PlayStation 4 was released on 15 November 2013, Microsoft Xbox One — November 22, 2013.
The level of performance SoC (system-on-chip) Jaguar is comparable to discrete graphics card AMD Radeon HD 7850. This adapter was released in April 2012. By modern standards Jaguar — a real outsider. x86-the architecture is clumsy (and in 2012 it was considered such), and graphics by the standards of 2016 corresponds to the Low-end. Now this 3D-accelerator sold under the name Radeon R7 370.
It is built-in video occupies the major part of SoC. It consists of 20 modular units CU (Compute Unit) — use the GCN architecture. The PS4 is activated only 18 units. Each block has 64 stream processor. And so it turns stated 18х64=1152 units. The Xbox One uses 768 sweat all processors, since only activated units 12 CU. For comparison, the top representative of discrete graphics cards AMD Radeon R9 Fury X — brags 4096 computing cores. Roughly speaking, it is 3.5 times more powerful graphics of the PlayStation 4 and four times that of the Xbox One.
Still wonder why the next generation console got such a weak filling. Even by the standards of 2013. All this has led to tragic consequences. In the end, and protochniki began to face the brakes in the games. Not all products provide a comfortable FPS at 1080p. For example, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate runs in 900p at 30 FPS. While the technical component of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One does not contribute to the creation of games with graphics to the next level. Consoles is into the third year, and no progress in sight. Went and computer games, which are often common with the console ports. The graphics quality has not improved, but the system requirements — very much so.
Sony PlayStation 4