Major Nelson on X1 Power: "I can't wait for the truth to come out."

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eyeofcore said:

Ashadian said:

eyeofcore said:

Yet my post is not hilarious because your post is hilarious since there is only 50% gap and that is small, it is not like 100% also there is no such leaps anymore like it was with Super Nintendo to Nintendo 64 or from PlayStation 1 to PlayStation 2 or from Xbox to Xbox 360. Your claim that it will never have performance of PlayStation 4 is laughable, remember when Xbox 360 was always ahead and there were Xbox fans saying that PlayStation 3 can't catch up yet it did and outperform... So... Yea.

First of all PlayStation 4 uses GDDR5 memory as primary and only memory so it is easier to program for it compared to Xbox One that has two memory types, DDR3 that does what it is suppose to do and eSRAM as VRAM that is cheaper and faster than GDDR5, but harder to work with and that is reason why games on Xbox One has couple of multi plats that are 720p and not 900p or 1080p. Xbox One has 32MB of eSRAM that is ultra fast and it only needs 16MB to achieve 1080p in single pass and rest can be used for AA's and other things.

As time goes on, developers will learn to handle eSRAM like they learned how to handle eDRAM in Xbox 360.

PS3 and 360 were a very different than XBO and PS4. Those systems were very close in GPU with 360 just edging out the PS3. On the CPU side PS3 had a sizable advantage, and it was that difference that allowed PS3 to eventually catch up. PS3 always had the raw power advantage of 360, but due to Cell's steep learing curve it was not seen until devs and Sony had better tools and knowledge. 

This time around both systems are neck and neck on the CPU side, but on the GPU side there is a massive gap. XBO ~7770 or R7 260 and PS4 ~7850 or R9 270. The PS4 GPU runs games at the same frame rate or high at 1080p than the XBO GPU does at 720p with the same game setting. Though the Power gap is only 50% in FLOPS the pixel out put is more or less 100%. 

Both systems have many modifications. XBO have the data move engines, and the ESRAM. The PS4 has the 8ACE/64queues only found on the top end R9 290, and HUMA. Over time developers will find ways to make each system perform much better, but at the end of the day XBO really has no chance of ever catching the PS4. 1080p/30fps on PS4 will always be 720p 30fps on XBO.