Ruler on 26 December 2017
| Mr Puggsly said: A few thoughts... If Sony wants to avoid CPU bottleneck they should simply use a better CPU. Its not a like the Jaguar was cutting edge tech in 2013. The reason a game like Uncharted 4 looks so good is because they focused on GPU power. Uncharted 2 and Last of Us don't look a generation above. Games like Gears 3/Judgement and Halo 4 look comparable. While a game like GTAV was arguably the most impressive title of the generation. But all these games look great because of GPU, not CPU. Its GPU that pushes graphics. Look at PS4 and X1, its obvious what separates these two is the GPU advantage of PS4. That allows PS4 to have better resolutions and/or better visual effects. If your specs are what PS5 is aiming for at $499, a potentially $250-299 X1X is gonna look appealing. Same amount of RAM, less than double the GPU power (mostly resolution disparity), while the biggest disparity would be CPU. I don't believe Sony cares about PS3 BC. If they did, they would do it by software so they can sell you the games again. |
Yeah sure you can always put a better CPU in there, like an Intel core i7 extreme edtion with 8 cores. But the problem a console is always facing is money, Sony would have pretty much to buy up what AMD is offering in 2019 if this is the release window, in this case the Ryzen. So there is not much they could do better on the CPU side of things.
I think A Cell processor+1Gb XDR2 Ram for under 50$ is good performance boost, especially if it gives you dual porpoise with BC.
