Debunking the Myth that Next Gen Consoles are too weak

[freedquaker]

zarx said:

freedquaker said:

Pemalite said:

Just a quick question, why are you quoting the CPU performance, instead of the GAMING performance here? Because we all know that Intel CPUs will demolish the Kaveri in CPU bound scenarios but most games are not. On the next 3 pages, there are the game benchmarks, where Kaveri easily outmatches or catches up with High end Intel CPUs which are much more expensive. You seem to have conveniently posted an entirely irrelevant set benchmarks and skip everthing that is relevant!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaveri-review-a8-7600-a10-7850k/12

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaveri-review-a8-7600-a10-7850k/13

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaveri-review-a8-7600-a10-7850k/14

Please next time, when you quote something about gaming consoles, quote the gaming performance and the impact of CPU. And you know what, this is KAVERI, with discrete graphics, way lower than what PS4 has, and without the low-level improvements and driver optimizations etc...

All those benchmarks are using intergrated graphics so they are GPU bound.

As you can see even with a modest GPU even a mid tier I5 with slower RAM matches the A10. Throw a CPU bound game with a high end GPU in the mix and it looks more like this.

Good value for money sure but AMD's APUs don't hang with high end Intel CPUs in games.

You know what, I have no objection to any of that. What you are missing is that

a) Those games are not taking advantage of close to the metal programming, and hampered by the high level access of DirectX and Open GL

b) Consoles can utilize CPUs much more efficiently with much faster CPU calss etc. This doesn't mean they'll magically have more CPU muscle but it means the CPU is less of a bottleneck and needed way less

c) Consoles are designed parallel this time around, and it will be taken advantage of, so the single thread performance is not the case here anymore. There is a reason why 8 cores have been in there.

d) Weak CPUs have always been the case in modern Consoles, and their makers gotta be real idiots to put them there otherwise. Again this doesn't mean that on occasion, they'd benefit from faster CPUs but obviously the added performance is not worth it and better spent aelsewhere.

e) For years, I have hardly ever heard developers complaining about the lack of CPU performance (with the exception of Wii). The main culprit of complaint has always been the amount of memory, which is now handled handsomely.

 

It's time to surface up and face the realities of the actual life, rather than diving into some unrealistic technicalities which hardly make practical differences.