Pemalite said:
ArchangelMadzz said:
To put that into perspective the GTX 980 is about 5 tflops. So it's about 20% more powerful.
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*face palm*
Flops cannot be compared between 2 GPU's of completely different architectures, it's not a denominator for gauging the complete capabilities of graphics processors.
For all you know, Scorpio will be 20% slower whilst having 20% more "flops".
ArchangelMadzz said:
A GTX 980 alone costs around $500 from a quick search on amazon, 20% higher means $600. Let alone it cost more because it'll be in a much smaller form factor assume it's console sized and we're not even talking about the Cpu, Ram, Contoller etc.
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You cannot compare a PC GPU to a console one, especially in terms of price.
For starters... Console manufacturers don't buy "complete" GPU's, they don't buy multiple chips of Ram dedicated to the GPU, they don't buy over-engineered dedicated power delivery systems dedicated to the GPU, they don't buy highly complex, expensive, copper vapor chamber air-blower coolers, they don't need to purchase a PCB with tons of layers and traces to route everything.
The GPU is also integrated in with the rest of the SoC, which allows for chip consolidation to keep costs low and they also buy in bulk and have special deals to farther reduce the costing.
As for the "controller" I will assume you are talking about the memory controller, that is also integrated in the main SoC.
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By controller I meant, the actual game controller, as it seems odd to sell something like Scorpio without the Elite controller.
Also Tflops is an objective measurement between architectures. It is literally a measure of computing performance counting the amount of instructions it can perform per second. I will conceed to your other points but that one is just plain incorrect.
