Mobile devices will be more powerful than PlayStation 4, Xbox One in 2017, ARM forecasts

[joeorc]

JRPGfan said:

Conina said:

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.

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.

 

Thank you for posting this.

Nvidia loves to claim their mobile chips (which are usually way to power hungry for mobile) are able to compete with this and that in terms of graphics.

 

Best mobile chip on the market right now, is 1/4th of the PS4 (or less in performance), and uses 19.4watts doing so.

If they tried to scale that up to PS4 levels, they would probably design a chip just as power hungry as the PS4.

 

Theres just no way that in 2017, we see Smart Phones equal to PS4s.

This over the top marketing has to stop, and people need to stop swallowing this crap.

Look how many in this thread, actually think before 10years we ll see smart phones as powerfull?

How does marketing fool so many people?

This is not just about smart phones or tablets only, when Arm holdings are talking about these smartphone chips. ExampleExample

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php

 

Those single board pico-itx size SOC's are already able to pass the xbox360 & PS3..the system boards already have SOC's clustering..

The point is they can ship these boards with 8GB ram now even in a smartphone or tablet. Their scaling is 14nm scale ,& supports Graphics Api like vulkan & DirectX 12 not a cut down over but the exact same APi going into PC & game consoles. The galaxy s7 has freaking water cooling! In smart phones now.

 

You also have to remember , that the game engines, and development tools & development experience with Mobile chips now is not like dealing with the chips back 10 years ago. John carmack took care to point this fact out. He pointed out that today's smartphone SOC's take just as much development resources & experience with the new chipsets, because they are more advanced that share a lot in common with their bigger counterparts akin to the PC.

 

These chips are not like smart chips of the 90's and 2000's these are quite a bit more advance, like a rather large gap in advance over previous smartphone chips. The advancement growth was way higher than many in here do not see to think it has.