| oodles2do said: If it's 5.5 TFlops then that is the value that I saw someone deduce the AMD RX 490, with it being such a reasonable price and Sony will have got a good deal that seems like a good contender to be the Neo's GPU. I assume someone has pointed this out before, would this be realistic? Seems like a good GPU to go for, for Sony |
Teraflops isn't a denominator to determine performance of a graphics processor.
A 4 Teraflop GPU can thus beat a 6 Teraflop GPU.
| GribbleGrunger said: PlayStation Neo (PS4K) GPU is going to be twice (2X) as powerful as the Standard PlayStation 4 and much faster. The source did not reveal exactly how fast the GPU is going to be, but it was confirmed that it will be running at a higher clock speed while being much smaller than the original. |
You can't have "twice as powerful" and "much faster" I.E. Greater performance than 2x Playstation 4's.
And any GPU built at 14/16nm is going to be smaller than something built at 28nm.
| Airaku said: I will laugh my ass off if the NX matches the Neo and Nintendo uses that extra power to push polycount. Sony and Microsoft will likely need to make some "exclusive" games like the N3DS does in order to look as impressive. Not to mention some third parties might want to take advantage of the NX. Sure it can be a port of the other version, but exclusives would undoubtly be higher fidelity. |
Unfortunately there isn't much room for Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo to get radical with hardware, their spoon all comes from the same bowl.
Thus the NX isn't likely to to push poly's harder than the other companies which already have a liberal use of Tessellation to boost poly counts.
| thismeintiel said: I would get your expectations in check. First of all, I think the console makers are sticking with AMD. They offer better GPUs for the price and haven't screwed over any of the Big 3 like nVidia has. 2nd, Nintendo has already said they aren't trying to compete in specs. And really they can't if they are trying to push a fusion console by including a handheld/controller in every box. I wouldn't expect anything over 2 Tflops, personally. And if rumors are true, it'll be closer to 1.5 Tflops. @ OP I definitely believe Sony would have upped the clock to push their GPU to 5.5 Tflops, since it was rumored the 4.1 Tflops was only due to them underclocking it. However, there is NO WAY they are pushing a $599 price. That would kill the Neo right away. That may be the price MS is going to try and push, but I fully believe the max Sony is going to go is $449-499. |
I think the main issue is this forum is INFACTUATED with specs and typically push Teraflops as a denominator for gauging performance, despite the fact a 1 Teraflop graphics processor can beat a 2 Teraflop graphics processor, they throw all real-world expectations out the window.
bunchanumbers said:
I don't know if you can call $600 a win. Not to mention the fact that it doesn't do anything a $349 PS4 can already do outside of play 4k blu rays. |
It's a win if they have another product filling the other price brackets. If you think Neo and Scorpio is going to target more price conscious market segments, then you are highly mistaken, they will both work in tandem at various price points.
| JRPGfan said: If this is true, then the differnce between it and the scorpio will be so damn small it wont be noticeable at all. Plus.... 1 years headstart... damn, sony worked some magic. |
Scorpio is set to have the edge graphically. But it won't matter for most users who chose/chosen the regular Xbox One or Playstation 4.
| Lawlight said: Just some more attention-whoring from a neogaf "insider". The PS4 will be 4.2TF. |
Teraflops isn't a denominator for gauging performance, architecture is signficantly more important overall.
| LordLichtenstein said: 4.2 or 5.5, either way Sony will sell more consoles than Microsoft. |
That could very well be the case, but I prefer to take a more pragmatic "wait and see" approach.
Xbox gamers will be happy in having superior graphics though either way.
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