PS4 Specs

The PlayStation 4 comes with a custom built chip with eight Jaguar cores. Hence the PS4 features an 8-Core AMD Jaguar APU which compared to an older generation Bobcat architecture offers 15% IPC improvement. The AMD chip allocated to PlayStation 4 runs at 1.8 GHz with 2 MB of L2 cache shared across each core and includes new instruction sets such as SSE 4.1/4.2, AES, CLMUL, MOVB, AVE6, F16C and BMI1.

The downside of these low-power APUs is that they don't compare to AMD's desktop APU lineup which currently includes the Piledriver based Trinity chips. Hence even with eight cores, the CPU performance of the PlayStation 4 would remain medicore at best since its based on a chip that is suited for netbook and tablet use, not the actual desktop computing or gaming