Will Sony ever "enable" the extra 128 cores in the PS4 in the future?

Really?

No they won't because those are likely for yield purposes so that the number of successful GPUs being manufactured is higher. Not all PS4's will have all 128 extra cores in a working state so unlcoking them would give benefits only to some and thus this will never be done.

not a chance because those are for yield purposes think of them as fail safe . In some Ps4's those cores can be enabled and be functional while on others they will be defective so Sony is not gonna enable them and only some of PS4 owners will have that extra performance

heard this rumor before and i doubt it...

i get the no laser cut but this apu is too compact and complicated alone with just 18cu's enabled

Pretty much as I stated in my OP. But I bet there are still Sony fanboys out there that would love to get their hands on a PS4 with all of the cores enabled.

If I were Sony, my solution for those Sony fanboys would be to first see how many APU's can they churn out with the fully unlocked cores and specifically release a special edition Sony PS4 called the "Classified" edition with an overclocked CPU and GPU and charge like $1000 for them. Did you hear that Sony. :P

I am wiling to bet hundreds will line up to buy one and will probably pay even more if it's rare. lol.

No.

It will cause that any PS4 that has an APU with 19 or 18 CU to fail because it doesn't have the whole 20,when you shut off 2 CU for yields is because you intent to use any chip that has 20,19 or 18 CU,so you can throw away less and produce more units,there are PS4 now that probably have 19 and 18 working CU,those machines would fail on the spot if you enable all 20 CU to run,the same happen with the xbox one,and the PS3 Cell has 8 SPE but only 7 work and 1 is off for yield and never was turn on.

No. By unlocking those cores, you are introducing a higher chance of failure. Just look at the old AMD Tri-cores which were actually 4 core chips with a core disabled. People got mixed results when they tried to unlock that 4th core. Some were able to get a fully functioning 4 core while others actually killed their chips.

Its the silicon lottery my friend.

Yeah, true. But later down the road when the yields are excellent, if I were Sony I would try to enable all the CU and see how many are functional and sell those with "Special Edition" PS4 at ridiculously marked up price. (You know people will buy them)

Can you imagine the mental orgasm that Sony fanboys will experience on top of their superior hardware over Xbox One? lol.

SONY knows what's best for us, after all they are driven by the by gamers for gamers mantra all the while practicing the Live, Learn and Love lifestyle.

Not, sure if I follow. Are we talking about PS4's that are already out their that have 18 CU that are in gamer's hand to "fail" or are we talking about any APU's that are coming out of "fabs" with all the APU's enable to have the entire APU fail with all the units enabled if one were to enable the extra 2 CU's. Because the latter wouldn't make any sense.

By having more powerful units on the market, you begin to introduce fragments in the user base. The one benefit consoles have over PC's is the universal hardware makeup. Every PS4 out there in the wild is exactly the same, by introducing these "Uber" units you have some units that are capable of more.

does being a fanboy get you off or something? Like seriously what is wrong with you that you create a topic and repeat this statement?

Highly unlikely due to the risk of mass bricking.

LOL

Never because:

A small percentage of ps4 have all the 20CU functional (if unlock)

A good chunk with have 19CU functional (if unlock)

and the rest already have 18CU functional.

the same is true for most GPU's .(console's , PC's, etc)

They wil never release a new model with unlocked cores either. This is because develoeprs will make their games for the current specs so that all sp4's can play all games made, and thus any changes in ahrdware would never be reflected in their programming. It never happened last gena dn it won't happen this gen either. This is the very reason why the 360 struggled last gen when it came to usign hard drives for game textures. They couldn't because the arcade models at the beginning had no hard drive at all, and games had to work with all sold units on the market.

Perhaps they will, but I think it's irrelevant. Unless Sony can develop a Cell 2 processor to compete with the Xbox One, I fear PS4 may die a early death. Sony has done a good job to revitalize their brand, but they're probably too late as Xbox One has been blowing the competition out of the water.

If Sony chooses to unleash the full power of the PS4, it could potentially help developers, but it could also be the final nail in the Sony coffin if it doesn't save the PS4 because it will be Sonys last ditch effort.

LOL PS4 is so weak, No wonder Ryse is voted next gen Graphics King.

Doesn't need to. Ps4 is already ahead of xbone

Yeah and that will kill all old systems wit less than 20 working CU,biggest example of this is Cell,it has 8 SPE only 7 work and sony never enable the 8th one for the same reason.

You need more effort and been less obvious.hahahaha

There is a lot of LOL'ling in here. I will join you.

I was merely making a statement. So, are you saying Sony fanboys will not be happy if the got some sort of a "Uber" PS4 with all the CU's enabled. They are already extremely happy that it's better than the Xbox One spec wise.

And I am PC Gamer, I don't either have a PS4 or the Xbox One.

If in fact what you say is true that in fact small fraction of the PS4 have all 20 CU's functional, I wonder how the performance would be compared to regular PS4's if at all. That would be an interesting experiment.

so if I made a thread saying "wow valve could potentially give away every half life 3 for free.... can you imagine how hard pc fanboys will cream themselves "

then in each reply i make in the thread i say something... jeez can you imagine the pc gamers crying so hard cause valve probably wont give away half life 3 for free

is that just making a statement? cause that is what you are doing

you are making a trolling statement on a "fact" that doesn't exist/you made up and you consistently repeat it even though no one is even suggesting it as a real possibility... if that is not getting off on your own twisted imagination i don't know what is... i suggest you look at porn to get off instead Im sure your pc can handle a 1080p dual monitor stream no problem

The Xbox one has the exact same thing and no, the probably won't.

The ps4 has 20 CUs and uses 18 of them. The xbox one 14 and uses 12. They do this so they can f*** up 2 of them and still sell the chip. Hackers might figure out a way to turn them on, but Sony and Microsoft never will because there are many consoles which wouldn't work that way.

No.

1) The extra cores are there to help maximise the yield, just like the disabled SPE in the Cell processor, the extra 2 CU's in the Xbox 1 Chip and the additional ESRAM in the Xbox 1 Chip.

2) Having PS4s with different performance characteristics would a) screw the devs over and b) defeat the point of a console in the first place.

They don't need to. PS4 is the most powerful console, they don't have to do anything lol.