Sony julkisti hiljan tulevan Playstation 5 -konsolinsa teknisiä tietoja pääarkkitehti Mark Cernyn suulla. Muun muassa se selvisi, että uudessa konsolissa on vaihteleva kellotaajuus, joka perustuu AMD:n SmartShift-teknologiaan. Esityksen aikana monille jäi sellainen mielikuva, että pelien optimointi Playstation 5:lle vaatii pelin erikseen optimoimisen kyseiselle CPU:lle.
Nyt sitten Cerny on selventänyt kantaansa, ja asiasta kertoi Digital Foundry, että prosessi on automaattinen eikä vaadi lisätyötä pelinkehittäjiltä.
"Developers don't need to optimise in any way; if necessary, the frequency will adjust to whatever actions the CPU and GPU are performing. I think you're asking what happens if there is a piece of code intentionally written so that every transistor (or the maximum number of transistors possible) in the CPU and GPU flip on every cycle. That's a pretty abstract question, games aren't anywhere near that amount of power consumption. In fact, if such a piece of code were to run on existing consoles, the power consumption would be well out of the intended operating range and it's even possible that the console would go into thermal shutdown. PS5 would handle such an unrealistic piece of code more gracefully."
