The average person will think that supercharged is awesome.
To be fair its true (kind of) if you want to compare it to the overheads that a PC has to run while gaming. I believe its also in reference to "semi-custom" so the chip is designed for gaming primarily, not as a general workhorse like pc's are running Windows etc.
Dont get me wrong, there is a healthy part of marketing going on also lol
Questions I have are - why so many slower cores over fewer much quicker cores?
Why AMD when Intel's CPU selection blows AMD out the water? Fear of needing a dedicated GPU? Price vs performance calculations? Etc
Just some guesses that occured to me;
Well lets just say that dual core is required for the game itself - possibly more
1 extra for background d/l management (of course this can be managed by less, but if you can wouldnt you put it on a seperate core)
1 core for remote play / instant video editing etc etc
And remember there are theories floating around that AMD's apu cores are twinned /paired - so maybe system developement is better considering the above in seperate pairs of cores
Also without the overhead of windows etc in the background so much speed maybe not required in each core.
Future developement - maybe they can do all they want to right now with 4 cores, this might not be the case in 3 -4 or 5 years time.
1stly The graphics part of AMD's apu's is meant to be significantly better (is this hard to argue if the PS4 "gpu" is based on 7*** Radeon?)
2nd remember its a custom chip, ok semi-custom - and I maybe wrong but I was thinking AMD's power usage in apu's was better than Intel
Of course price/performance always has something to do with it as well
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