I don't get why there's such a big power difference.

[Ashadian]

superchunk said:

FlamingWeazel said:

Everything you just posted is rubbish, that has already beeen explained in the thread. It is NOTHING like ps3, last gen the 360 actually had numerous advantages, while ps3 had cell but it was difficult, The GPU and power gap is a lot bigger, with ps4 also being easier to code for. Technology is measurable, it is not some magic you can bend, the ps4 is a lot more powerfull and that is not changing, in fact the gap will widen.

Its not rubbish.

Both systems have similar CPU/GPU, however, the memory and other architecture is vastly different.

PS4 is likely the lead due to this simplicity of single memory pool and increased raw power. Thus devs in these launch games have a better handle and produce initially better results.

Its going to be quite the wake up call to many a fanboy when Xbone/PS4 3rd party games are really almost identical in a year or so.

Neither machine is being used to its full power or very efficiently at this time. Both will improve a lot.

PS4 was designed as a powerful games console. With that in mind they opted for unified 8GB GGDR Ram and enhanced the APU with fututre proofing like GPU compute etc. X1 was designed as an entertainment device which can play games. It has a weakr GPU and older DDR3 Ram. The 32MB ESRAM was added as a band aid. As the generation goes the PS4 will pull ahead even more. The only person who's gonna get a wakeup call is yourself! No optomisation can overcome the GPU and GDDR5 ram weakness. Once you hit the GPU limit thats it! Otherwise why would anybody by an AMD HD 7870 over an 7850????