| FrancisNobleman said: HIS PC, not a single GPU. Of course driver updates will improve performance little by little, but the optimization made on consoles is far mor elaborated due to the closed nature of itself. His particular rig with every component will be less eficient as time goes on than a console. That's what I wanted to say in short words and fell short of an accurate response =) For example, I think today's BF4 runs good on a 7950, and also good on a PS4. BF in 2017 will still run on PS4, even if poorly, but a 7950 might be out of the minimum specs already. It's the pc nature. |
Did you even read my post? And check the Youtube link?
Frostbite, Unreal, CryEngine, Nitrous will support Mantle (And other engines will support it as time goes on)
He will get the similar optimizations and tricks that consoles will get in the majority of AAA games, it's easy for developers to translate console-like tricks to PC.
http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/mantle/Pages/mantle.aspx
He won't be able to run Ultra settings in 2017, but he will be able to play just a little higher than console equivalent settings.
But guess what? That's all he is entitled to because he would have bought the system and not upgraded it in 3-4 years, you can't expect a GPU equivalant to the PS4 to suddenly be outputting 10x superior image quality, that would be just stupid.
With that in mind a 4 year old GPU (A-La, Radeon 5870) is still very capable even today and will be for a year or two yet.
Besides the money he saves on cheaper games (Typically $10-$20 cheaper, plus majority of new releases and pre-orders you can get an additional 20-30% saving.) and the fact he gets free online will easily mitigate the additional GPU hardware costs in just a couple of years.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
