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HoloDust on 21 April 2016
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Nate4Drake said:
Pemalite said:

I do know how the architecture works, I have been using PC hardware before it ended up in a console and people started looking at all the shiny buzz words to use in their arguments.
Sony stated it's a newer GCN core than in the PS4. Which means anywhere between GCN 1.1 to 1.2. (It won't be using Polaris/GCN 4 due the feature size.)

Colour compression to save bandwidth will likely still not be enough for AAA 4k gaming.
The other improvements are relatively minor (Context Switching, Task Scheduling)  and won't change the landscape dramatically in GCN 1.2.

The other big improvement is in the Geometry end, it's twice as powerful as GCN 1.0, good thing with that though is you can scale the factors dynamically, so it would literally be like moving a slider between the PS4 and Neo.

I do agree, more information is needed. But you CANNOT ridicule someone for "Guessing" when you do the EXACT same damn thing.

Geometry is the big one. More bumpy surfaces.

Lighting and Shadowing and Shader effects will likely be a step closer to the PC, Anti-Aliasing will probably not be as simple anymore either.

I believe you are guessing a lot more than me, isn't it ? I just said that Sony and AMD know so much more than you and me and everybody else here, so let them to do their job, and let's wait for final hardware with all final details, and real benchmarks and Games. Does this make more sense ?

Where's the fun in that?

Before PS4 was revealed there was lot of guesstimating around here what it might pack - I remember few of us discussing 7970m (downclocked mobile 7870) as GPU and 8-core AMD as CPU with 8GB of RAM...let's say a lot of folks here (who have no technical knowledge) thought that was ridiculous...

In the end we pretty much nailed GPU (that's more or less what's inside PS4, minus 2 CUs for better yields) and RAM, we missed on CPU, it was indeed 8-core, but Jaguar, not from FX line - Sony decided to go with cheaper and low TDP solution, which is sensible business desicion, but bottlenecks PS4 in some cases.

Anyway, if you stick around here, there will always be guesstimates when there is new hardware on horizon, and some of them will be right, some of them not, some will come from random people and some from people who actually know a thing or two about hardware, but don't call people ridicilous just cause you trust that platform holders and/or manufacturers are flawless and always make the best solution, because, due to financial reasons, that is not how real world works.