What to Make of the Steam Machine?

[AnthonyW86]

JRPGfan said:

taken from a news site; CNET, that had a article on the Steam Machines:

"860M has 1,306 GFLOPS of FP performance VS PS4 at 1.843 tflops.

860M has 80.2 GB/s of RAM bandwidth VS PS4 at 140.

860M has 40.8 GTexel/s vs 57.6 for PS4"   - douglord

 

That 449$ model of the steam machine from Alienware is probably not going to give you the same gameing experiance a PS4 would.

You can't compare GFLOPS between two chips from different manufacturers and different architecture. A 860M is equal to a 750ti, wich athough only 1300 gflops is equal or faster than a 1760 gflops hd7850. So all in all graphics wise that Steam machine will be very comparable to a PS4(with much lower power consumption).

The biggest problem will come from the i3 i'm afraid, without even hyperthreading it will limit performance. The only savior could have been DirectX12, but since it uses SteamOS that won't help either.