HollyGamer said:
And also , Sony already confirmed the design was real during Wired second interview with mark Cerny , (even before that Code Master dev also confirmed, Gizmodo as well confirmed and the patent is real made by the same who made PS4) . Compute doesn't always mean Teraflop number, even GCN to Navi teraflop is 1,4 to 1,5 more powerful on the same teraflop comparison, not include the CPU memory bottleneck etc. And even without all above , it's clearly not a 3D mock up we can easily spot that. |
It only took a whole console generation and AMD to release a new GPU architecture for people to start catching on... It really does make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside though to start seeing posts like this.
FLOPS is irrelevant in determining the complete capabilities of a processor... Just like bits.
| SpokenTruth said: Oh sure. But consider how much of a difference that was. Even the 1.5 differential you list up here would mean a 24x increase (44 TFLOPS) to match the PS2 - PS3 increase. But do the same for CPU speeds, cores, GPU clock, memory total, memory bandwidth. You will not get any of those close to the increase that PS3 got over PS2. Yes, FLOPS are misleading for the very reasons you laid out but they can give you a general idea. I just think that kid of claim is rather ludicrous given the realities of current hardware and the massive jump between PS2 and PS3. |
You are still clinging to flops. FLOPS doesn't account for the additional processing capabilities in other components like the Ray Tracing Cores.
Now the jump in performance when calculated in terms of "multiples" or "percentages" does indeed look underwhelming on paper, however, in terms of absolute performance... We are looking at a rather substantial jump... How many PS3's could you fit into the powergap between the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5? It's going to be a fuck ton.
| ruffy37 said: this thing is unnecessary big and ugly. seems almost like some custom case for a standard computer. although if they can build slim gaming notebooks with a powerful gpu, they could have done a much better job. unless they introduce something like a holo deck and need a big case to fit anything in it. |
What do you think a console is? Just a PC that is packaged nice and neatly in a unique box.
They still use PC GPU's, PC CPU's, PC memories and all PC components and technologies... And even run PC software like *nix or windows, Direct X or Vulkan… List goes on. - Sure there is some customization going on... But PC OEM's customize PC chips for things like notebooks and tablets too.
And it makes sense to do so... No longer does it make sense to sink billions of dollars into chip design, software engineering and manufacturing when AMD, Intel, IBM, nVidia, Microsoft, Samsung, TSMC, Global Foundries, Khronos have already done all the hard work... And update their designs on a yearly cadence... In short it means we get larger leaps of power for less cash and much sooner thanks to the cutthroat PC marketplace driving competition and innovation.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
