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AnthonyW86 on 30 July 2014
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Locknuts said:
AnthonyW86 said:

To comment on the video, let me just quote ''we did not focus on power consumption''. If they did it would show something like this:

Power consumption GTX 480 card only:                       ~270 Watts

Power consumption Playstation 4 entire system:       ~135 Watts

That means just one GTX 480 consumes twice the amount of power as an entire Playstation 4 system. In other words if you would try to use a card like the GTX 480 in a console it would fry in minutes.

Wattages don't really matter in this context. The consoles aren't as powerful as they should be. I remember PC forums in 2005/2006 where people would be asking if they should get a 360 or a 7800 GTX (Nvidia's flagship GPU at the time) and be told that a 360 would give better performance!

Proof:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1017369

A PS4 is so far behind it's ridiculous. Nobody is comparing PS4 hardware to a GTX 780ti because that's not even a fair fight. Whereas comparing a 360 to a bleeding edge GPU was ok at the dawn of the last generation.

Despite the x86 architecture, I truly believe that only the best developers in the world (like ND) will be able to work the hardware to produce something that looks truly mindblowing.

It's interesting that you would give that example because here's the catch: an 7800 GTX only used about 80W under load. That's right, and the 7900 gt that followed it shortly used less than 60W. Both the X360 gpu(based mostly on the x19xx series) and PS4 gpu now probably use more power than a 7800 GTX, and therefore produce more heat. 

The truth is that today's power difference between a high end pc graphics card and a PS4 is simply achieved by the chips consuming more power. 

The jump from x360/ps3 to ps4 is the full jump that graphics technology has made in terms of performance per watt. If you don't believe me play a game like Killzone:SF, PS4 runs at the absolute limit heat wise and that's including a rather weak cpu.