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Cleary397 on 12 March 2013

But the amount of social features that were shown for the PS4, including streaming to friends, video and screenshot recording, background downloading, not all 8GB of RAM is gonna be dedicated to games.
The PS4 may be 'faster' than your average gamers PC at the very moment of the console launch, but give it a couple months and the PS4 will be outdated.
GPU, CPU and RAM are updated so quickly that the PS4 will simply not be able to perform the same as PC's a year after its launch, sure the DDR5 Ram is gonna help prolong the PS4 but the CPU and GPU will let it down eventually.



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Barozi on 12 March 2013

since console games are usually locked at a specific framerate, PC versions can indeed be faster.



dahuman on 12 March 2013
Cleary397 said:
But the amount of social features that were shown for the PS4, including streaming to friends, video and screenshot recording, background downloading, not all 8GB of RAM is gonna be dedicated to games.
The PS4 may be 'faster' than your average gamers PC at the very moment of the console launch, but give it a couple months and the PS4 will be outdated.
GPU, CPU and RAM are updated so quickly that the PS4 will simply not be able to perform the same as PC's a year after its launch, sure the DDR5 Ram is gonna help prolong the PS4 but the CPU and GPU will let it down eventually.


what I'm really worried about is failure to deliver what's promised since the Sony camp is known for doing that. They have a vision, always, but a lot of them don't get realized in a timely fashion if at all.



A203D on 12 March 2013

Yeah, but we know that some of the PS4 RAM will be devoted to the 'share' function designed around social networking, surely that will offset the gains of the console OS.



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AgentZorn on 12 March 2013
superchunk said:
Nope. Maybe on a crappy port that was built on PS4 and half-assed on a port to other consoles/PC, but not in general and certainly not past the first year of the consoles life when PCs are on average far more powerful.

Really, all this super computer talk for PS4 is getting annoying.

Especially since its only focusing on memory and ignoring the down-clocked APU with mobile-series CPU/GPUs.

Yeah... its uber-crazy-powerful. It'll run on love even.


Its starting to sound like the PS3 all over again.



Trunkin on 12 March 2013

I'm starting to think that this guy might not be a very trustworthy source on this matter...



disolitude on 12 March 2013
ethomaz said:
Like I said... only guys with machines equipped with GPUs over the GTX 680/HD 7970 will run games better than PS4.... so ~2% of the PC gamer users.

Every gamer developer always asked for more and fast RAM... 8GB GDDR5 give them that.

In terms of memory, all modern PC GPUs have GDDR5 memory as fast as PS4, if not faster. For CPU tasks, it makes absolutely no differernce to have GDDR5 vs DDR3 memory as AMD's CPUs can't even put 2133 mhz DDR3 memory to use. 

Secondly, GTX680/7970 power will be mid tier gaming cards for next gen of cards laucnhing this year. GTX 660ti = GTX 580 flagship from next gen in terms of performance. GTX 760 Ti should be 300 bucks and provide power of GTX680 by the time PS4 launches.

Thirdly, PC gamers have much more options to harnes "power" from their systems. My buddy picked up 2 GTX 560s on sale for 99 each and set them up in SLI. That is more powerful than the PS4. Today you can pick up 2X 7850 and run them in crossfire for ~300 bucks and easily beat a 7970 in performance. 

Anyone that has a quadcore PC today, can spend the same money upgrading the PC as they will spend on a PS4 or 720 and have a more powerful and faster gaming system. 



cbarroso09 on 12 March 2013

4GB of RAM for games and the other 4GB for sharing stuff. Devs themselves seems to forget what is this about.



Mnementh on 12 March 2013
AgentZorn said:
superchunk said:
Nope. Maybe on a crappy port that was built on PS4 and half-assed on a port to other consoles/PC, but not in general and certainly not past the first year of the consoles life when PCs are on average far more powerful.

Really, all this super computer talk for PS4 is getting annoying.

Especially since its only focusing on memory and ignoring the down-clocked APU with mobile-series CPU/GPUs.

Yeah... its uber-crazy-powerful. It'll run on love even.


Its starting to sound like the PS3 all over again.

Yes, Sony didn't announce a price so far.



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