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QuintonMcLeod on 08 October 2014
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BlueFalcon said:
QuintonMcLeod said:

You're right. I made a mistake then and I apologize.... Thanks for providing sources!

So, here's this GPU instead: R9-270x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161442&cm_re=r7_270x-_-14-161-442-_-Product

It's the same price, which keeps that build at $400 bucks, and it out performs the PS4.

You can do even better for $10 by buying a HIS IceQ R9 280 with 0.95Ghz clocks and 3GB of VRAM. This card overclocked to 1.15Ghz ~ GTX680/7970Ghz!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161456&cm_re=his_r9_280-_-14-161-456-_-Product

No doubt you can build a PC with a Pentium G3258 and R9 280 (~ 7950 @ 950mhz) and in 3-4 years drop a used i7 4790K in there and that will last another 3-4 years probably until PS6/XB2. Over those 7-8 years, the amount of money you will save on games will easily allow you to get an i7 4790K and a brand new GPU upgrade 2-3X. Heck, a $329 970 provides about 95% of the perforamnce of the 11 months old 780Ti's which retailed for $699 . On average GPU performance now doubles every 3 years. 780Ti ~ 970 is 2X faster than the GPU in PS4. That means in 3 years from now you could get a GPU for $350 that will be 2X faster than a GTX970 and again 2X faster in 3-4 more years near the end of PS4's life -- or 8X the performance of a PS4 at minimum in 6 years from now. 

I have known this for at least 15 years since I started building PCs -- that if you buy a lot of games, PC gaming is cheaper over the useful life os a console. Alternatively you can upgrade your PC every 3-4 years with the money saved from not buying 30-40 console games. However, I still consider consoles for their exclusives and for multiplayer games with friends. For that reason once Uncharted, God of War and some other cool games come out, I'll grab a PS4, while buying 95% of all cross-platform titles on the PC. 

As far as Ubisoft goes, their programmers can't code worth a damn. Far Cry 3 - stuttering mess on flagship GPUs, Watch Dogs - garbage, every AC game is an unoptimized turd (AC Black Flag isn't too bad). Ubisoft hasn't made a well optimized game in years. That doesn't mean Sony's first party developers won't squeeze awesome graphics out of 1st party titles in the next 6-7 years. I wouldn't use this titles as an indication that the CPU in current consoles is fully maxed out. I doubt Ubisoft spread the load across all 6 available CPU cores. 

And watch as everyone tries to tell you that you're wrong :/