Full PlayStation 4 specifications

[joeorc]

goddog said:

Im not talking about a ram bottle neck or a data feed bottle neck of any kind to the cpu or gpu. the bottle neck I am afraid of later in the gen has more to do with the cpu simply not being able to keep up. we can see already in games such as skyrim take this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-processor-frame-rate-performance,3427-6.html pay attention to the fx-8350 i know *edited for clarity* ps4 cpu will have better IPC than the fx-8350 but it the same 8 core 4 modual set up... these were all tested with a gtx 680  see the bottle neck

what your talking about is the CPU's ability to Handle more flexable number of threads and the speed at which the requirement's would be needed correct?

If So, think about how many Game engines are or do take advantage of 8 core's at once when they design their game? that's the Point just because the Cores are there at a certain Clock speed does not mean the developer's will have the resources and Man power to even take advantage of a fraction of the Hardware. when your Processor's are each core over a GHz and you have 8 of them making a game to take advantage of each one of those cores is not going to be a quick development purpose of game design. its going to take time and resources. which many Publisher's frankly will not be giving you anyway. in order to optimize your software around such Hardware. This of course is not like the PC where many game engines are not geared to a single stable unfied hardware platform for game development. PC's are many spec level's the game console is static. thus to take advantage anyway will take long in the tooth to get better and better results from your engine, that is if..and this is a Very Big IF you have the time  the Team size able to handle such development requirement's and the experience and Money. and if the Publisher even gives you the option in the first place.