What if you could take the Zen 2 CPU cores found within Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, transplant them onto a PC motherboard, install Windows and actually play PC games on them? Short of hacking the console and somehow crafting drivers for it, it's a pipedream, but we can do the next best thing. AMD recently - and somewhat stealthily - released the 4800S Desktop Kit for Chinese OEMs. It's a Micro ATX motherboard built around the Xbox Series X APU, shipping with 16GB of GDDR6 memory.
I do actually own the 4700S Desktop Kit - and others have covered it extensively. I wrote off our coverage because PS5-level gaming simply wasn't possible on it, owing to the PCI Express bandwidth limitation. We bought the 4800S on the recommendation of DF supporter, Fidler_2K, who noted its more luxurious spec. However, actually acquiring one was problematic. I bought the 4700S on eBay from an Italian supplier.
We're using the Clam Chowder Microbench system to test memory speed and latency . Top right, as the size of data transfers increases, the 4800S runs out of fast cache, while the cache-rich Ryzen 5 3600 keeps on trucking. Bottom left, you see that when the 3600 runs out of cache, the higher bandwidth GDDR6 virtually doubles performance of 3200MHz DDR4. Bottom right, the high latency of GDDR6 reveals itself vs DDR4.
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