PS4 Neo Could Be 5.5tf ($399 - $599)

[DonFerrari]

Intrinsic said:

Snoopy said:

AMD and John Carmack said it himself that you can get out almost twice as much with a console than you can with a PC counterpart due to optimization. A 6tf console is equivalent to a 9tf = 10tf console easily.

No. A 6TF console doesnt just get 50-60% more power simply because its a console. You are taking what was said waaaay outta context. 

 No single  factor is responsible for the overall performance of any hardware. What is responsible for the performance of hardware is its system, how all its little factors work together. 

Teraflops is just a theoretical measure of a chips single and double precision performance. Key word being theoretical. But that performance is also toed to a lot of other factors. eg, you can habe the fastest GPU on tbe planet, but that GPU will only crunch data or map assets that it has recieved. This concenpt is how the term bottlenecks come about. 

The key advantage of PCs, is that they can brute force their way through anything. And this si achieved by putting higher end components in each area. Like throwing in an NVme SSD for instance, or even a better MB, or more powerful GPU.... etc.

A chip being on console will give you a 10-15% gain at most, and thats assumimg the chip doesmt have any kther bottlenecks to contend wtih. Take the XB1 for instance, the reason most games are sub 1080p isnt actually the fault of the GPU. Its the fault of using DDR3 ram and having on 32MB of "fast enough" ram. The reason most games on the PS4 don't hit 60fps isnt the fault of the GPU, its the fault of the jaguar CPU. It basically would hsbe to work twice as fast to hit 60fps.

I would disagree of the 10-15% gain only, OS footprint and overhead of DirectX or the likes would make that gain a little bigger.