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Baron on 05 February 2013
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Soundwave said:
Baron said:
dahuman said:
DF jumped the gun too fast to get hits on their site, at the moment of their writing and even right now, nothing is conclusive yet. They are good at analyzing "graphics," but they are no experts when it comes to analyzing hardware. I'll stick to my usual saying though, if you want some real fucking graphics, go PC or STFU about it. cause all 8th gen consoles are already last gen or worse on the graphics level. They also don't understand why GCN doesn't mean as much for consoles, it's meant for PCs to start with.


This.

If the rumors about Durango and PS4 are true than I don't expect a 'quantum leap' compared to their predecessors. Mobile processors and graphics chipsets... So much for PC gaming in a box.


The PS4 sounds quite beastly actually. 1.8 TFLOP GPU console plus an 8-core CPU with extremely fast GDDR5 RAM (4GB of it).

That's maybe not as big of a leap from PS2 to PS3, but it's still a monsterous jump.


An 8 core mobile cpu and supposedly a 7850 with 4 GB's of RAM which I find very doubtful, a graphics chipset of at least 130 Watts paired with a processor that will most likely use about 1/10th of that...

As for the speed of the RAM. GDDR5 doesn't automatically mean it's extremely fast. There are things like clock speeds and bus sizes to consider. There are graphics cards with GDDR5 RAM doing 25.6 GB/s and there are graphics cards with (simple) DDR3 RAM doing 64 GB/s.

So no, that doesn't sound beastly just on those figures alone. Especially because the 7850 rumor is nothing but speculation, it's not even based on "Journalist A or site X heard it from an anonymous dev".

In fact I'm expecting Durango to outperform the PS4 slightly. But I doubt Durango will be a powerhouse either.

 

I'm expecting something in the range of 7850M - 7870M for both consoles. Enough to run new, next-gen games close to 1080p at (a steady) 30 fps but nothing too fancy. Certainly not enough to match (current) High end PC's right off the bat at launch.