PS4 not worth the cost says Nvidia (Read thread, not title)

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Lafiel said:

disolitude said:

ethomaz said:
nVidia has better tech but no option like CPU+GPU (APU)... so in the end the AMD is cheaper.

Sony did the best for the company.

Maybe not an X86 option but they have a very capable ARM SoC option in their Tegra line. 

very capable? well, the cpu cores of that are OK for smartphones/tablets (and Vita uses a custom Tegra3, with powerVR gpu cores), but not anywhere near enough for "next gen" consoles

and the Tegra's GPU cores are heavily critizised for being subpar even compared to standard ARM designs

Yeah very capable and much more efficient than X86.

Tegra 4 is about 6 times more powerful than Tegra 3 and is only a year older. ARM architecture is improving performance year over year much faster than X86.  It will all level out down the road but at this rate Tegra 5 and Sapdragon Next gen will be as powerful as low-midrange PCs. 

Overall I agree with you that Tegra or Snapdragons are not console ready YET but in 2 years, they will be just as powerful as the best x86 APUs.

I mean, Tegra 4 already supports HDR, DDR3 memory, DirectX and OpenGL and allows for 4k x 4k textures which is what PC games tend to use. In 2 years they will achieve parity.