Both of the major current generation game consoles – the Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 – are powered by octal-core APUs (accelerated processing units), built by AMD. Though the APUs in each console share some architectural similarities, the chips and their memory configurations are quite different. Something that both Sony and Microsoft have done, however, is reserve CPU cores for use by their console’s respective operating system. Dedicating cores to the OS ensures it always has resources available and it makes for more predictable performance when navigating through each console’s various menus and options.

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