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HoloDust on 12 November 2012
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walsufnir said:
HoloDust said:

No (and BTW it's 7670, not 7760) - combined performance of that combo (A10-5700 with 7660D@760MHz) is 12.5GPixels/s; 37.4GTexels/s; and 1352GFLOPS. No amount of "modification" can put that to level of 7970 with 33.6GPixels/s; 134.4GTexels/s and 4300GFLOPS (which is, if we take a look at ATI GPU history and recent rumours, almost what will 8870 will be pushing when it launches probalby early next year). Check out Superchunk's thread, I posted table there several days ago for quick referencing:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=136756&page=87

I'm afraid all next-gen consoles will be vastly inferior to high-end PCs, even at launch, not to mention few years from now. Which for PC crowd could be either very bad or very good thing, depending on what approach (some) developers take.

 

i think developers aim only for one thing: money. yes, a high-end-pc is most probably even better by now than what we can expect from next-gen-consoles but i am sure games will be developed for consoles due to very good sales-numbers. well, pc-sales are hard to count nowadays with digital distribution but i highly doubt that assassin's creed 3, for example, sold nearly the numbers it did on consoles (not to mention both consoles combined...). i think the situation will be like it was the last years: the pc *is* of course technically more advanced but 1. it is not really used by games and 2. it is quite expensive to develop a game especially for consoles and again for pc so i think pc will still get ports the next years, with polished graphics.

Oh, I have no doubt that a lot, if not most developers will do what they were doing this gen - develope for consoles and than lazy-port them to PCs - that's the "very bad" part in my original statement. On the other hand, since, unlike doom&gloom predictions of many journalists and analysts, PC gaming is on the rise again, I do expect for at least some of them to step up the game and develop for PC, and than downport to consoles (something like BF3 for example), and honestly, in 2-3 years from now, I would not be too surprised to see a developer or two (old one or maybe someone completely new) making exclusive that will push PCs beyond limits, the way Crysis did it in 2007 - that's the "very good" part in my original statement. Unfortunatelly, looking back at this gen, I'm suspecting "very bad" part to be more true...