Will 'Console Killer' PC's be dead for next gen?

[Pemalite]

ArchangelMadzz said:

Pemalite said:

Good card for digital signage or throwing in extra monitors on a workstation.

Workstation cards have no problem with monitor amounts.

And a lower end intel CPU would be better for digital signage and more cost effective due to being a CPU and GPU under one die. You wouldn't really have an actual PCI graphics card for those things. 

Well you do if you want to extend past 3 displays, that's it's real use.
That and they are fanless and often come with depreciated standards like dsub which are sometimes hard to find on some motherboard classes.

mutantsushi said:

OdinHades said:
Sure, the SSD tech in the PS5 is impressive, but I think PCs will catch up rather quickly.

If you want a fast SSD you can get same or better on PC now, even if it isn't exactly the norm.
The area where it might catch up is in controller but that goes along with software stack to negotiate that access granularity.
I don't see that happening on PC for several reasons, but I'd be obliged if you could share specific developments in that regard.
If anything, I see PC compensating in other direction by just increasing RAM further, which may approximate similar outcome.
If games can fully leverage PS4 I/O that cultivates market for such game design, which large (V)RAM + SSD may roughly match.

There will be SSD's faster than what the next-gen consoles have before next-gen consoles launch.
There will be GPU's that are faster than the next-gen consoles, before the next-gen consoles launch.
There will be CPU's that are faster than the next-gen consoles, before the next-gen consoles launch.
There will be Ram capacities that are more capacious, faster and lower latency before the next-gen consoles launch.

As long as consoles pinch and borrow PC technology, they will always be a step behind the PC because the PC is constantly improving, has higher thermal and power ceilings. It never stops improving as a platform, there is always something better around the corner... And I think many console gamers fail to realize this aspect of the PC market.
Last gen gamers were saying that because a PC didn't have "8GB of GDDR5 Ram" that the Playstation 4 was a superior console over PC, history says very differently and the PC kept and retained the overall technological edge even if it didn't have 8GB of GDDR5 memory, just replace GDDR5 with SSD, just a different buzzword, different day.

Take for example... The Samsung 980 Pro with read and write speeds of 6.5GB/s and 5GB/s respectively... And that is launching at the end of next month... And there are SSD's even faster than that which are still to come before the next-gen consoles drop.

You also have PCI-E SSD's like the Gigabyte Aorus Gen 4 SSD which leverages a full 16x PCI-E 4.0 slot to offer 15GB/s read/write performance and 8 Terabytes worth of storage, absolutely nuts... But expect to pay for it. Allot... But without a doubt it obliterates any console storage today or tomorrow.