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SvennoJ on 20 May 2017
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Azzanation said:
Pemalite said:

What?

Don't forget it brought the likes of Tessellation, Ambient Occlusion and massively increase particle effects and more.

In regards to the CPU specifically, consoles have never really taken CPU performance seriously anyway, it's graphics that helps sell games so consoles tend to spend most of their cost budget on the GPU.

Erm.. PS3 says otherwise.

Yeah I was just thinking that. Original XBox had a good cpu too, as well as XBox 360, heck even the ps2 was no slouch. It's not easy to emulate XBox 360 games even though the architecture isn't all that different. It's this gen that introduced rather weak cpus pared with much more powerful gpus. And true, ps3 orginally wasn't even meant to have a gpu, 2 cell processors instead.

xbox cpu 3 gflops
ps2 cpu 6.2 gflops

XBox360 cpu 115 gflops
ps3 cpu 230 gflops

XBoxOne cpu 112 gflops (147 scorpio)
ps4 cpu 102 gflops (136 pro)

It's different processors ofcourse, yet this gen wasn't any real step forward cpu wise. Ofcourse last gen consoles were sold at a loss and engineered to be close to the cutting edge while this gen consoles had to be cheaper and sold at par.