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Gaming - CONSOLEs vs PC - View Post

Intrinsic on 05 November 2014
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Pemalite said:
Intrinsic said:

I am not sure, but I think what he is referring to is that consoles are more efficent. In other words. I console can do more with 1TF of power than a PC. Simply cause the console has less overall overhead to worry about and that whole closer to the metal crap. Kinda how mantle improves the performace of specific hardware. Its no like that hardware suddenly gave birth to some more transitors. Matle just makes the PC more efficient at utilizing the power it has.

So in a twisted laymans sense of it, he is actually right.


Consoles also do less at any one time.

1 Teraflop of power on a console is exactly the same as 1 Teraflop of power on a PC, anyone who deals with a ton of compute understands that.

Using "Flops" is a pathetic use of measurement to gauge performance anyway.
I have over 20 Teraflops of "Power" in my PC, which outside of floating point operations, means literally nothing.

Wait a min... are you trying to argue this point too? Do you just try and dispute and argue about everything?

Its a  FACT that consoles are more efficient than PCs. Thats simply what a console is all about. A console can do more with the hardware that it is. When it comes to doing what the console is designed to do. Which is play games. But somehow you want to even argue about that too? Of course the PC is doing more things at the same time, but thats because that is what its designed to do. A console is stripped of all those "extra things" just for the sole purpose of being efficient.

Its like both a formula 1 car and a mercedes S class AMG has 800BHP. With that same 800BHP the F1 car will beat the benz in performance every single time. Hoever, th benz actually has doors, climate control, a roof, a usb charger, seat warmers...etc. The benz is doing more, but for the sole purpose f racing (which is what the F1 car is made for and the benz can "also" do) the F1 car is going to be faster and do more in regards to racing with its 800BHP.

I don't even believe that I we ar talking about this too lol. Ah well..