biglittlesps said:
IHateLife said:
biglittlesps said:
IHateLife said:
Hmmmm.... I think graphics are important but prettier graphics don't make the games better in most cases, that being said, these boxes all look pretty bad next to a decent PC even if the supposed "code to the metal" is applied to them when talking about power. You can get a 390 USD GTX 770 right now(faster than a GTX680, comes in 2GB standard or 4GB for about 440 USD or so) and toss that into a 6 year old PC running K10s or Core2s, and that will run laps around the new consoles already. It would of course cost more to build an entirely new PC but the upgrade path is also a viable one if you just have something laying around. You can go AMD 7970GHz Edition for about 10 bucks cheaper but Nvidia GTX 770 has excellent driver support and PhysX while being faster in most benches so......
Anyways, 8th gen consoles are somewhat disappointing to me so far as powers go, but I'm sure there will be good games on all platforms and that's what really counts. |
I'm sure that GPU which PS4 has the potential to meet the High End GPU's of PC because PS4 GPU has optimizations which is not possible with PC GPU's so PS4 GPU Can match close to 7950 performance atlest, we have to worry about the Wii U and Xbox one GPU which doesn't has enough hardware in GPU to match High End GPU performance since its bottlenecked with DDR3 and 32MB SRAM by complicating which needs more tricks for developers to get most out of it.
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It doesn't really matter how optimized the PS4 GPU might be when the high end PC GPUs are already at the very least over 2X more powerful at current times and will be cheaper by the time the new PS and X are out. You also have to remember that the AMD HD9xxx series are coming out in the same time frame which is a step beyond the current high end PC GPU as well at 2x the specs. 8th gen consoles are just not that powerful when you look at it from that perspective. We really should be focusing on the games instead if we are to call ourselves gamers.
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If you compare 8th Gen with 7th Gen then they are powerful enough to make great games because look at the Games Last of Us, Uncharted, God of war etc., which was done in the hardware of 200,6 so we can expect some great games with the hardware we have. PC hardware technology is moving really fast so we can't catch up with that in terms of Performance but the consoles can be affordable over the time and it has many AAA exclusive games which PC cannot get. So, developers have the hardware which they can explore for 5 years to create great games atleast instead of meddling with different architectures/specifications of PC GPU's.
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Hence read the bolded in my first post.... we are on the same page now :) I have played God of War 3, Uncharted series, and The Last of Us, and even though they don't have the best visuals, they are all great games, that's the most important part. Also, PC GPU's work with drivers and their integration with the API layer, if anything, they are unified on the API level, configuration is not much an issue these days unless you have faulty hardware.
