Monster CPU is 100,000 times more powerful than the Xbox Series X

The Xbox Series X and PS5 are set to release with the most advanced processors ever for a home console, and put them on par with some modern gaming PCs. While there are rumors of new incoming graphics cards blowing even those out of the water, one lesser known chipmaker has already done so.

Meet the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Generation 2, an absolutely massive processor with dinner plate with 850,000 cores and 2.6 trillion transistors. While this garganteuan CPU, designed for supercomputers, may seem completely related to the upcoming consoles, the chip here and those that power the next Xbox and PlayStation were all made by TSMC using the same 7nm process – so in a way, she’s all Siblings.

Image Credit: Tom’s Hardware

The big difference with the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Generation 2 is of course just much, much bigger. In fact, compared to the Xbox Series X’s 8 cores and 15.4 billion transistors, the Cerebras chip has 849,992 more cores and 2,598,460,000,000 more transistors. The PS5 and its 8-core processor are outclassed in the same way.

To produce anywhere near the same level of processing power, you would need somewhere in the ballpark of 106,250 consoles of next gen. I hope your wallet is ready.

Via Tom’s Hardware

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