| Ljink96 said: This worries me. This mid generation thing. Is this how gaming is going to continue to be? I mean, if there's a traditional PS5, where does it fit? Theoretically, this is Sony's answer to Microsoft's One S, but the One S isn't as capable as the Neo, and the Scorpio will be much more capable than the Pro, is Sony going to shoot back with something else that's more capable than Scorpio? I'm just genuinely concerned with the pacing of how consoles are releasing. I'm sure the Scorpio is confirmed to be 6TF, 1.8 more than Pro. I'm sure that TFs of the Scorpio won't simply rely on GPU with bottlenecks and whatnot as TFs is the calulation and culmination of many processes into one unit of measurement, so the CPU will most likely outpace Pros as well. These are good specs, great pricing for what you're getting, but again, one upping Pro again within 3 years to combat Scorpio is something that I don't want sony to do. |
PS5 was guesstimated at around 15TFLOPS (if they go with 10nm node), most likely for 2019/20 - that's about the same jump in power as in 7th to 8th gen, and that would be proper new gen - unfortunatelly, while those 15TFLOPS are more then capable of 4K UHD native, it's a waste of resources to render in that res, given that for true 7th to 8th jump AND taking into account 1080p to 4K UHD (which is a lot more then 720p to 1080p) it would need much more...around 25TFLOPS actually...and that will not happen, at least not in that time frame, on that node and for $399.
But given how things are going, more like PCs, maybe PS5 will be weaker, but earlier new gen, so another ~2.5x jump for ~10TFLOPS, and then PS5 Pro in 2022 with ~25TFLOPS.
