walsufnir on 20 February 2014
| freedquaker said: Let's see what you object to... * Now on the console side, we have 1080p TVs, which usually cannot view more than 60 frames, so there absolutely is no point in producing better than that on Modern PCs... * The CPUs, on the vast majority of the time, are not the bottleneck, and because those are gaming machines, not general purpose PCs, there is no point in putting a CPU on a console, that is faster than necessary, as long it is not a bottleneck on the games, and have sufficient performance for other tasks such as Bluray playback etc... * RAM is abundant. It's a 16x increase from the earlier generation, which is unprecedented. PS1 ( 2+1+0.5 MB) => PS2 (32+4 MB) => PS3 (256 + 256 MB) => PS4 (8 GB). If you go ahead and check, the relative PC RAM with each generation was... with PS1 : 8 MB, with PS2 : 128 MB, with PS3 : 1 GB, with PS4 : 4-6 GB... so you see, PS4, for the first time in history has more RAM than the mainstream PC! * Given that there is no point in producing an output greater than 1080p 60fps, the PS4 GPU has already shown that it's capable of 1080p and 60 fps, although not always at the same time, which will come by time. There really is no room beyond 1080p 60fps (which PCs may be capable of, but consoles just don't need)... Ok, now, say what do you object, instead of talking in a vague fashion! |
I am vague? You are wildly mixing up "facts" to fit your opinion, it seems. I am not even sure what you really want to say.
You are not understanding the purpose of a cpu in computers, you make bold statements about bottlenecks without any further evidence,
and overall it seems like a "let's put PS4 in the right perspective"-article which is not necessary as anybody knows the facts.
Btw, even last-gen consoles could do 1080p60, why need more power?
PS: Where do you get the amount of RAM on a "standard" PC when each Playstation (I thought we are talking about consoles, but I get the idea what you really wanted to say in the first place) launched...
