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Conina on 22 February 2016
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Barkley said:
JRPGfan said:

You want a smart phone as strong as the PS4? give it 20-30 years and MAYBE... you ll see it then.

Woah, not a chance. 10 years MAX. I'd be very surprised if Mobile Devices aren't as powerful as a ps4 within 5 years.

In 5 - 10 years? Maybe... although the annual progress of mobile GPU power is slowing down every year: the iPhone 4S / iPad 2 were ~600% faster than their one year older predecessors, now we are down to ~100% per year and the annual gains will probably fall to 30% - 50% in the following years.

2017 like ARM suggest? Never.

The only games so far which perform better on (high end) mobile devices than on PS3 or 360 are the Telltale games (The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones...) due to the shitty / RAM hungry Telltale-Engine, which brings PS3/360 to their memory limits.

 

JRPGfan said:

The Nvidia Shield X1 uses around 10-15watts of power (its a tablet chip, used in a mini console)

That means its roughly 1/4th the power of a Playstation 4.
And at 10-15watts, which would be too much for a smart phone (usually 3watts or lower).

Actually the Shield TV uses almost 20 watts when a demanding game runs:

A smartphone or tablet with that chip would need additional power for the display.