GTAV on PS360

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Ganoncrotch said:

Wasn't the X360 running some modified version of DX9 with some features taken from 10 but not fully implemented, I mean... just in terms of being a old graphics API to say 11 is old while the 360 can only dream of being able to run it considering the console launched 1 full calendar year before DX10 showed its face on PC's.

Yeah it was using a variant of Direct X 9. But it was cleaned up and streamlined as it didn't need to support/retain legacy ways of doing things.
Direct X 11 was a bit of a break-away, hence why it was a "separate" API to that of Direct X 9 and relied on the newer driver model... But there is still a substantial amount of legacy code in it for various reasons.

With that said however... The modified Direct X 9 API isn't the only API on the Xbox 360, that API is a high-level API... The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 also have low-level API's which operate closer to the metal for better performance which is what GTA 5 actually uses on console.

Today on PC we have Direct X 12 and Vulkan (Which was born from AMD's Mantle) which brings some aspects (That we get the most bang-for-buck performance gains from) closer to the metal for improved performance.

Ganoncrotch said:

No doubt a OC'd Core2Quad could piss all over PS/360 era games though when coupled with a decent enough GPU, again though, the first Core2Quads came to market a year after the X360 launched and yeah robbing this from wiki but "The mainstream 65 nanometer Core 2 Quad Q6600, clocked at 2.4 GHz, was launched on January 8, 2007 at US$851" sure that cpu can be gotten for around 20e now, but when it launched it would cost you the price of 3 Xbox360's for the CPU alone, it's no wonder it can outrun the old MS beast.

$851 was the launch price by the way... The PS3/Xbox 360 wasn't $300 on it's launch either remember... But a couple months after launch the Core 2 Quad had hundreds of dollars slashed from it's launch price.

In saying that though... Those Core 2 Quads can also play some games from today, you can't really say the same about the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
I mean... Mine is mostly just used for Overwatch and other eSports titles, but I do use it for testing/tweaking of newer titles like Battlefield 5... That CPU is likely to outlast two console generations, that's not a bad effort.