Yeah, I thought that was strange. Personally I thought they should have gone with a 7790 vs 7850 and clocked both to 800MHz. As it is, their are too many variables to be representative (memory bandwidth and ROPs are the two that stand out) when using a 7850 for X1 and 7870 for PS4.

Or.. some people just have an interest in hardware as well as games.

Leadbetter lol

This guy is trying really hard to create a point... his biased point.

This article is full of bull but it cleary says that the consoles can run nowdays games in 1080p with high assest and better textures.

Leadbetter view of Xbone hardware...

7850 16 CUs, 1024 SPs, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs

=

Xbone 12 CUs, 768 SPs, 48 TMUs, 16 ROPs

Right?

DF got banned on NeoGAF.

Thanks to Leadbetter.

Four bad articles without evidences with a lot of fake news in a row... expected.

Exactly.  7790 and 7850 are the closest we have to the GPUs in the new consoles.  I believe the PS4 actually falls in between the 7850 and 7870, though.  And if I remember correctly, the One is slightly less powerful than a 7790.  Either way, devs for both consoles are going to be coding for that specific GPU, and closer to metal, so they will get more power from them than a gaming PC ever will.  It's also ridiculous to underclock the GPU even lower than the ones in the consoles, as he even admits that some games perform better with higher clock speeds.

@ethomaz

Is this #4 for Leadbetter? 

It is the #4... he is trying hard to make a point based in nothing lol.

I agree that in term of use of the RAW power the PS4 and Xbone will be more close to 7790 and 7850 but there are another units that makes part of the GPU that can't be forget.

The use of a 7850 (16 CUs, 1024 SPs, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs) to simulate a Xbone (12 CUs, 768 SPs, 48 TMUs, 16 ROPs) is a new low for Leadbetter... and that make the DF and Eurogamer looks really bad for future leaks.

Well that was interesting enough.

Wow DF articles really are banned on Neogaf.

Sigh I love Digital Foundry articles. This won't stop me from reading their stuff.

This particular article isn't that bad i just find it weird how they went about their comparison. I don't think the guy who wrote the article is bias as some are pointing out.