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Scoobes said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
KHlover said:

Sigh, I can post the specs:

Galaxy S4:

OS Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Exynos 5 Octa 5410
CPU Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 (In Europe, region that counts for me)
GPU PowerVR SGX 544MP3 (7,2 GFlops per core @200 MHz) Source

2 GB RAM

 

PS3:

Component   Playstation 3
Media   Blu-Ray
Processor   3.2GHz Cell - 7 SPEs
System RAM   256MB XDR @ 3.2GHz, 256MB GDDR3 @ 700MHz VRAM
Graphics Chip   nVidia RSX@550MHz
Max Resolution   1080p
Best Video   HDMI 1.3 (on best system)
Network   1Gbit (1000Mbit), 802.11 b/g on 60GB model
Controllers   7 x Wireless
Hard Drive   20Gb or 60Gb

GPU: 218 GFlops

Source: http://www.futuregamez.net/hardware/ps3hard/system/system.html

 

PSVita:

Performance

CPU brand ARM
CPU model Cortex A9 MPCore (2,5 MHz per core)
Cores 4
GPU model SGX543MP4+ (7,2 GFlops per core)
RAM 512 MB

Sources:

http://www.theverge.com/products/playstation-vita-wi-fi/1617

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a9.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5XT

 

So overall the PS3 still is the strongest system :P

 

 


You're S4 specs are wrong, though that is an easy mistake due to how often new models come out. The CPU is in fact a 1.6GHz Octa-Core processor/1.9GHz quad-core processor in UK. "The Samsung Galaxy S4 is equipped with a 1.9GHz Quad-core AP or a 1.6GHz Octa-core AP [application processor]," the company said in a statement sent to PC Pro." at 28nm, which is far more advanced than the ancient relics that run the current consoles. Also note how that GPU runs DX 10.1....so straight away it has more features than current consoles.

Plus, is it really that hard to believe? How many people own phones and will happily drop £500 for a phone every 18 months, yet how many gamers complain if a new console comes out for £350 with a 4 year shelf life? One market has a future, the other does not.

It'll be another generation of mobile chips (about a year or two) before mobile chips are comparable with current gen console power. They may have more modern feature sets (I doubt you'll be seeing many of those features utilised in mobiles), but in power terms the Galaxy S4 only has a 51.4 GFlops GPU. That's around a quarter of the PS3. Even the newly announced Tegra 4 has a max output of 80 GFlops. 

And I'm not sure what 28nm has to do with anything but chip efficiency and manufacturing costs. If they wanted to, they could decrease manufacturing of current gen console chips to 28nm. They're currently at 40nm anyway so it's on the cards for that to happen before the next round of price drops.


Seeing that the mobile market is worth more than the console market, this will drive innovation and has been doing so for sometime, hence why I say it won't be long until phones do surpass current consoles. Also I mentioned transistors simply to show that phones are using more modern techniques and will do so due to the quick developoment cycle they have compared to a console.