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hinch on 15 March 2013
| Shinobi-san said: To call the PS4 a low-mid ranged PC is crazy. In realistic gaming performance i would rather classify it as a mid-high PC. Just based on the theoretical power of the hardware, as well as the design of the device to cater for gaming. People don't seem to understand that when you talk about low end PC's, you talking about the lowest performing parts. Parts that are not really specifically geared towards gaming. Current APU solutions from AMD and intel HD graphics for example is what i would say is "low - end" in terms of gaming obviously. Then i would be looking at discrete gpus such as the GTX550ti as a low-mid randged gpu, a solid card that can play most games at decent settings (not the latest titles tho). I would then say a 560ti moves to the mid range segment. Which is a serious jump up from a 550ti or similar bracket. And then 7850, 7870, GTX660, 660ti as mid - high cards. Anything above that currently is a high end card. Theres just no other way to classify these cards based on real world gaming performance, price and theoretical power. So im seriously struggling to make the jump here? And why are so many tech minded people just going along with this? How on earth does a 7850, 7870, 7970M hybrid gpu fall into the low end category at all???? Taking into account what we know of real world gaming performance benchmarks. |
There's that and not having to deal with big overheads like on PC (Windows OS, DX). Having low level access API on the platform and a single target spec means that devs get more performance out of it compared to an equivalent spec PC (up to 2x according to John Carmack). And is able to "code to metal".
