Wii U vs PS4 vs Xbox One FULL SPECS (January 24, 2014)

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Viper1 said:

zarx said:

Viper1 said:

While true, you still have VRAM and a coolling solution on the console so you still end up having to add that in overall.

Next gen consoles will likely be using unified RAM and one cooling system for the entire system tho so it is still not an apples to apples comparison. Going from a board with it's own power system, VRAM, cooling system, to a GPU soldered onto a board in a console is a big difference.

Sure, there is some difference between the 2 set ups but you quote me as though those things wouldn't be part of a console at all.

However, those are small drains compared to the GPU chips themselves.  3-10 watts for the fan.   A few watts for the VRAM.

Even if you completely removed those from the total system wattage budget, you'd still only drop the GPU from 130 to ~120 watts.

Not only that but, as zarx said, a console only has 1 cooling system that not only has to cool the GPU but also the CPU, which is another big heat producer. And it's even worse when you think that a console has a lot less space that a PC case to deal with it. And if you add the HDD and the optical drive it gets even worse.

And noise (from a high rpm fan) in a console is something we really don't like.