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Some great posts from Matt in that thread:

Where did people get the idea that Sony just overclocked the GPU on its own instead of, you know, design a whole system around these speeds?

So...from nowhere?
 
 Like, it's insane to think these clocks were some sort of last minute thing. The entire system has a clear design philosophy based around speed. The system is significantly more expensive and complicated to build in pursuit of this vision. It has required a lot of careful engineering and planning.
 
 If these clocks were worthless, why would they do that?
 
 You are choosing to believe a ridiculous premise based on...nothing.

...That's what the system is designed to do. That hasn't be hidden. The system has set power draw limits. To work under those limits, under higher workloads the GPU, CPU, or both might down-clock. These downclocks are not hundreds of MHz, very small reductions in speed give a lot back in power.

Yes, they are variable to get MORE performance out the the hardware, not less. I've said this before, but if the SX could magically run at variable rates with all else being equal, that would create a stronger system, not a weaker one.
 
 The quote is about not taking advantage of the variable clocks. You can tell the system to run at max in development to run at max all the time and it will, but that's not going to give you the best possible performance. That's why it's not encouraged.

The thread continues to be a mess though, its so wild the mods haven't locked it. Meanwhile this thread was locked quickly: Why are there so many false and misleading rumors surrounding PlayStation 5? | ResetEra

A summary of rumors dating back to 2019

• PS5 lacks hardware accelerated ray tracing; Ray casting audio support only
• PS5 will have virtually no launch games; Series X will have an abundance of AAA games from the get-go
• PS5's GPU is based on RDNA -1, developed by Roblox user xXAiden-x2005Xx while on work experience at Sony HQ. Bosses ran with the idea because lack of funds
• Cerny boosted the clocks in a last ditch response to Xbox. PS5 is secretly a 9 TFlop machine.
• PS5 is having fabrication difficulties; not enough units at launch
• PS5 BoM is rising beyond control. Might cost upward of $600. Riiidge Racer!
• PS5 is overheating, continually crashing, and engineers are scrambling to fix the problem
• PS5 is hard to develop for, almost PS3 levels of incompetence
• PS5 has trouble reaching native 4K for anything more complicated than Frogger and Pong, developers might settle for 1080p

That's only a fraction of it. So much FUD. What's going on Era. Are launches normally like this? Why is PS5 by far the largest target of nonsense?  

and people got bans for saying stuff like

I've found it interesting that none of these FUD rumours have really occurred for the Series X.
 
 It's as if a particular base of people have been working overtime to try and tear-down the more popular/successful brand.

which is basically just true.