shikamaru317 said:
Architectural improvements probably wasn't the best words to use there. I was referring to this paragraph of the article: The bottom line is that Scorpio's six teraflops will almost certainly go a lot further than an equivalent PC part. I asked Microsoft about this specifically, and they raise a number of good arguments that make the case strongly. Firstly, that their shader compiler is far more efficient than PC equivalents (think of shaders as native GPU code). Secondly, addressing the hardware directly via their API and with access to console-specific GPU extensions again adds to the advantage of a fixed platform box. And finally, they point to their optimisation software - PIX (Performance Investigator for Xbox) - as a tool that provides the path to console-specific optimisations that PC simply cannot get. |
Only Microsoft games like Sony exclusives might utilize the new console. Otherwise it is basically game with higher res. Probably 50% more pixels than PS4P. It will be intresting to see the difference between chekerboard and Scorpio res differences.
