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Ssenkahdavic on 04 April 2012
disolitude said:
lol...if both Sony and Microsoft release systems with these specs, I full expect Valve to announce a console and own them both.


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PlaystaionGamer on 04 April 2012

so.. im guessing this is not much more powerful then the PS3?..



Sal.Paradise on 04 April 2012
Ssenkahdavic said:
disolitude said:
lol...if both Sony and Microsoft release systems with these specs, I full expect Valve to announce a console and own them both.


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You mean the Gabecube.



Marks on 04 April 2012

Can anyone explain this in layman's terms please? How much more powerful will it be than the PS3 if this is true?



Rath on 04 April 2012
logic56 said:
Mnementh said:
logic56 said:
Direct X is what's killing these rumors for me, I think the people making this crap up should really find out exactly that it is


A DirectX11-enabled card. That doesn't mean Sony have to offer a DirectX11-API to developers.

Direct X platform is fully owned by MS they couldn't offer it to developers even if they wanted to

I dunno, Microsoft wants to drive the adoption of DirectX as the standard. They might just be happy for Sony to use it in their console.

Of course Sony probably wouldn't want to as most things I've read have stated that OpenGL is superior.



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miz1q2w3e on 04 April 2012
RolStoppable said:
So if I read this right, the PS4 will be able to have slightly better graphics than the PS3, but will be worse for complex things like physics and AI where teh Cell was masterful.

I suppose you don't need sophisticated AI to make a God of War game.


drkohler on 04 April 2012
leatherhat said:
RolStoppable said:
So if I read this right, the PS4 will be able to have slightly better graphics than the PS3, but will be worse for complex things like physics and AI where teh Cell was masterful


Where are you getting that?

Probably because this AMD crap processor delivers around 35GFlops CPU power (roughly 1.5 SPUs in the cell)? 

On the other hand, maybe Sony has figured out a way to use the GPU in the chip to do the work of the SPUs in games that currently use the SPUs for graphics (pre-)processing, and use the other GPU for displaying 1080p. If there are games that use the SPUs for physics/general math stuff, then this PS4 would be in serious trouble (maybe such games will be declared illegal by fall 2013 .

In any case, this PS4 rumour looks akwardly cheap



Mummelmann on 04 April 2012
logic56 said:
Mnementh said:
logic56 said:
Direct X is what's killing these rumors for me, I think the people making this crap up should really find out exactly that it is


A DirectX11-enabled card. That doesn't mean Sony have to offer a DirectX11-API to developers.

Direct X platform is fully owned by MS they couldn't offer it to developers even if they wanted to

If the PS4 is to utilize a form of DirectX and MS integrates Blu-ray, they'll both be paying royalties to eachother and basically end up at around zero...



darkknightkryta on 04 April 2012

Unfortunately I believe this, but to abandon the much superior power line for those AMD CPUs makes me face palm. The only thing that can save the specs is if the embedded GPU can be utilized physics.... which it can't.



VGKing on 04 April 2012
RolStoppable said:
So if I read this right, the PS4 will be able to have slightly better graphics than the PS3, but will be worse for complex things like physics and AI where teh Cell was masterful.

I suppose you don't need sophisticated AI to make a God of War game.


I know what you're doing here but that would only work if it was true.

 

Based on the IGN specs the standalone GPU is much more poweful than PS3 one. That's not even ounting the on-board graphics on the APU which by themselves should rival that of the PS3..