You will need ~$650 bucks to match next gen consoles on PC

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bananaking21 said:
im not a PC tech guy by any means. but isnt an core i3 just 4 CPU cores?

Actually, its 2 cores, but 4 threads.

One thing I don't see clarified frequently is that the PS4 & X1 CPU is an 8 Core Jaguar. Jaguar is AMD's CPU microarchitecture for netbooks and the such. The largest for the consumer market is a 4 core Jaguar APU. It's a double cluster for PS4 and X1, hence 8 core.

The i3-3220 would be a fair comparison for a PC to Console comparison, although you'd get more out of this i3.

Edit: Case in point is a 2 core-4 thread i3 Ivy Bridge for desktop versus a 8 core Jaguar netbook APU.

Edit 2: Having netbook cores doesn't mean the consoles are in a disadvantage. Developers always optimize for the hardware, and this further pushes away from CPU bottleneck.