Consoles and Their Wannabe Resolution.

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Captain_Yuri said:

Yea 4k isn't coming until next gen... If it's hard to achieve 4k on PC even with top of the line cards (at least at 60fps + ultra settings), it's not gonna be achieved by a $400-$500 box without compromises regardless of how magical people think these boxes are.

My guess is that it is due to the way they implemented the Memory Bandwidth since AMD has done a similar implementation way back during the 7xxx series which did not pay out very much. According to AnandTech, if you cut out the amount of memory bandwidth that has been added by this implementation, the amount that is left is around 218GB/s instead of 326GB/s which is more around ps4 pro's level. And Memory Bandwidth is really important when it comes to 4k gaming as well as having a large pool of Vram which the xbox one X has checked.

All in all, people more or less saw this coming. What I didn't realize when I made my prediction of it being able to run most games at 4k is how the bandwidth was implemented due to limited information. We will see how it all pans out in the end though.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11250/microsofts-project-scorpio-more-hardware-details-revealed

You didnt, you said it would run most games in 4K on PS4 graphics settings

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=227461&page=1

You didnt need to be an AMD insider to figure all this out, i predicted it by using basic math and i was 100% right. In fact i was even too generous to the prospects of the Scorpio.  Given that checkerboard is running half the resolution, my generous prediction of 7 Million pixels was wrong, its 4 Million pixels for games like Anthem and Assassisn Creed, which is a resolution something like 1800p.