Jega said:
Here is my 2 cents on the whole performance debate between the Xbox One and the Playstation 4.
Number 1
Ever since 2005 when sony started putting the 1080p truehd logo on their bravia hd tvs., I thought it didnt make any sense and here's why?
Read carefully, True HD is 720p that is 1366 x 768 pixels which equals more than 1 million pixels.
Sure 1080p is more pixels and a higher resoltuion, but if you are gaming in 720p you shouldn't feel like you are missing out if you are not gaming in 1080p.
I challenge anyone to test it out for yourself. Try two of the same tvs both capable of 1080p run the xbox one version on one tv and run
the playstation 4 version on the other tv, with the 2 tvs side by side, the difference will be marginal at best.
Number 2
What should matter to gamers more than anything else is FRAME RATE.
I would prefer a game to run in 720p at 60 frames than a game to run at 1080p at 30 frames per second any day.
I am hearing Infamous second son will run at 30 frames at 1080p. Playstation fans should not be happy with this.
Xbox One have delivered on the true hd experience 720p at 60 frames per second.
So far, Microsoft is delivering on what matters.
Number 3
So what is the fanboys really talking about the POWER of the Playstation 4 vs the Xbox One.
I took the liberty of checking this out for myself.
From the information I have gathered from various sources, it breaks down like this.
The Playstation 4 does indeed have a faster GPU.
OMG! GASPS! Playstation 4 is better. I knew it all along. I knew it all along.
BUT WAIT.
But wait, what do you mean wait?
There is a but.
One of the GPU's were bound to be faster than the other has it is two different companies. Sony and Microsoft would have to
work together to ensure both consoles were the exact same speed. DUH!
The Playstation 4 having a faster GPU means nothing because multiplatform games will not take advantage of that difference in
performance. So multiplatform games will be based on the Xbox One GPU!
Why?
Because it takes to much time and will cost developers more money if the focus on making 2 different versions of their games.
Hence that is why you have minor differences like resolution as we have today and that is why the PC versions of consoles games
just have increases in only resolution and texture detail that is far as a developer can go. You will not see a major difference
in the games. Xbox One will have a market developers cannot ignore.
Now!
How will Xbox One catch up to Playstation 4 in performance if the Playstation 4 GPU is faster.
ESRAM!
The 32 MB of ESRAM is faster than the 8 Gigs of DDR 5 ram in the Playstation 4.
What? Thats Bull@#$t you may say.
From what I know the the PS4 can do 176GB/sec while the 32MB of ESRAM in the XBox One is capable of 192GB/sec.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-xbox-one-memory-better-in-production-hardware
And that is just for graphics. The Xbox One also has 8 Gigs of DDR 3 ram which is capable of 68GB/sec which will take
care of stuff like app switching, kinect, and Artificial intellingence for game characters and physics calculations.
That equals to a combined speed of 256GB/sec for Xbox One and 176GB/sec for the Playstation 4.
So Microsoft did not sacrifice the game performance for other stuff.
That is why they put in the extra 32MB of memory.
Now which console is more powerful again.
Yes, technically, the answer is the Xbox One, by about 25%.
So what's up with these Playstation 4 games running in a higher resolution than some Xbox One games?
It's simple, Microsoft is late with the software development kits (SDKs) for to developers to take full advantage of the Xbox One.
Future Xbox One games will have no problem running games at 60fps and 1080p.
Also Microsoft will be able to do things that has never been done before to make Xbox One games look amazing.
Tiled Based Rendering!
http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/x1-esram-directx-11-2-from-32mb-to-6gb-worth-of-textures.453263349/
Future Xbox One games will look amazing with this new kind of rendering technique.
So to wrap up Microsoft did not sacrifice any of the Xbox One's power for games in favor of kinect or app switching.
Rather they built a system that can handle all of your entertainment without making any sacrifices while being as
efficient as possible.
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