Diff between PS4/XB1 > PS3/360

[VanceIX]

2008ProchargedGT said:

VanceIX said:

Captain_Tom said:

LMFAO.  Second Son obliterates Ryse, and Killzone looks decently better while doing FAR more impressive things on screen.

LMFAO no. I don't even own an Xbox One and Ryse looks better than both. Second Son and Killzone are better games, but Ryse has them both beat in the graphics department.

Please stop stating your opinion as fact and stay on topic. Ryse has nothing to do with this thread nor does ISS or Killzone.

So Captain_Tom was on-topic when he posted that SS obliterates Ryse?

And this is very much on-topic, since I'm pointing out that the system percieved to have the weakest hardware has the best looking game. It may not be "fact", but it is an opinion that enough people share. When you are comparing hardware capabilities of a game console, why would you not mention the way the games look on it? The games are what show the IRL performance capabilities of the console, after all. 

Darc Requiem said:

The Cell had the clear advantage in Floating Point performance thanks to it's SPUs. It lagged significantly behind the 360's CPU for general purpose processing. Also the Cell was a single core Power PC based CPU with 8 SPUs. One of those SPUs was disabled to improve yields. The other was dedicated to the OS. So there were 6 for gaming. The Main Core of the Cell was actually stripped down version of the same core that powered the 360's Tri-Core CPU. It was not completely superior to the 360 CPU but it's unique architecture allowed it to take on some GPU tasks. 

The unique architecture gave it a distinct advantage for games dedicated to the PS3. Games like TLOU and GoW 3 showed the prowess of the PS3 compared to the 360. You are correct about one SPU being disabled and one being dedicated to the OS, but even the 360 had to have tasks/threads dedicated to the OS, even if an entire core wasn't dedicated to it. And the GPUs were actually not that different, the PS3 actually had a better GPU when it game to general performance, but the 360's eDRAM allowed it to work more efficiently. The PS3 also had much faster and efficient RAM, just like how the PS4 does compared to the One.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/08/26/xbox-360-vs-playstation-3-the-hardware-throwdown