You will need ~$650 bucks to match next gen consoles on PC

[Raze]

Daisuke72 said:

Raze said:
Build my system 2 years ago, AMD 6 core, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, 3 TB HD, ASUS mobo w/USB 3.0 ports, RADEON HD 6790 with 1 GB VRAM. Cost me about $500 before the OS purchase. (Newegg has some good rebate programs)

All I need to do to get it to blow out the upcoming consoles for this gen is to replace mt vid card with a $260 vid card, I've got this one lined up for a purchase this fall - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161432 - it has 4GB GDDR5 RAM on it, and thats for graphics alone, not to mention the afore-mentioend 16 GB DDR3 RAM for all other processing. Hell, with this vid card, my rig might be more powever than the PS FIVE =)

Plus, as an added bonus, I don't have to play games with crappy thumbstick controls. Mouse is a lot more fluid for those headshots!

That 7850 won't blow away the PS4's GPU with OS overhead, although the RAM amount is impressive, what AMD processor are you using? Also, with a 7850 and a six core AMD CPU, your rig won't blow away the PS4 at all, I have a 7850 in my rig so I know what the card is capabe of, however I have an I5 with only 2GB VRAM but seeing as my i5 is better than your CPU, I'd put our rigs at about the same. A 7850 won't be as potent as the PS4's GPU which has more access to higher bandwith memory, and considering you have a AMD CPU in your rig, I'm willing to bet that it's nowhere as near powerful as you think. 

 

The fact that your touting your rig when it's not even impressive makes me doubt that you actually even have one, to be honest. I5 - I7, 7870 - 7990 or Gtfo. 

I couldnt really give a f**k wha you believe, TBH. =)  Personally I find the dual core i5 to be cumbersome in all the rigs I've seen it in running win 7 64-bit, doesn't impress even in a  8Gb system. My AMD processor is a Phenom II 1090T 6-core @ 3.2GHZ/core

You miss that the PS4 is all streamlined to the metal, so the remaining resources for the graphics after other ends are distributed put the available ram equal to the pc card I specc'ed.  The weird thing is, you assume the PC vid card requires OS overhead allowance, which is taken care of by 2-4 gb of the available 16 GB DDR3 ram I have in there.  Why did you go on and say that the memory bandwidth is higher, when both the vid card and PS4 have GDDR5 ram, so the memory will run similar bus speeds.

As for your end statement, here's benchmarks between 7850 and 7870 -http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/549?vs=548  you'll se that they're not that far apart from each other.