As idiotic as people thinking that you run the same code on both consoles "it is running the same game" nope.. nothing close to it. still optimized for the CPU / GPU that it is running on.

+ developers seldom optimise for the PC, since they usually have more hardware to tap into.

Clearly thats not running on a PC from 2006, so whats the point?

Because he said PS4, not PS3. This computer is most definately 2013. :)

I think almost nobody in the thread understood his point... Of course a cheap PC with a GT5XX ouperforms a PS3. His point is, get a PC with PS3 specs. That would be:
- AMD or Intel Quad core CPU with 3.2GHz+
- 2 GB of RAM
- NVidia GeForce 7800

The CPU is hard to find an equivalent, since Cell is PowerPC and the SPUs don't have an actually an equivalent. But X360 does similar things with a 3-core CPU, so let's assume its something like that. Notice that that PC CPU has way more cache. 512 MB of memory would be a problem for a modern OS, so let's go with 2GB to make it more close (1GB for the OS, so we will have 1GB for a game plus the GPU memory). The GPU is the bottleneck and wouldn't deliver the same performance than the console because of optimization.

What he means is that probably no PC available can beat PS4/One because of the optimization and in that he is correct.

PS.: But one thing is certain the title of this thread is horrible. Title: PS3 beats PCs on performance. Actual thread: PS4 and One specs aren't directly comparable to PC ones. Proof: PS3 comparison with 2006/2007 PCs.

The point is this:

A few PC owners have been saying that current gen consoles such as ps4 and xbone are already outdated or will be more out dated by the end of this gen just by judging it on the specs, consoles specs..

consoles are not only outdated by the specs but also by the performance of the games.  Last generation was different when X360 released in 2005 their were hardly games that showed better graphics...Crysis was coming though but every gamer knew you needed a 5.000$ pc to play it.  This generation I expect we will see (pc) gamers get fast tired of the graphics on consoles.

but my point is also that battlefield 4 can still run on a ps3 with 512mb of ram, no pc from 2007 could run ps3  visuals with that much ram

what im saying is, can a pc run ps3 visuals running off 512mb of ram, the answer is no......no pc from 2007 could play a game with visuals like the last of us or uncharted running off 512 mb

and i doubt you could build a pc with similar specs for cheaper, ps3's are £169 i doubt you can build a fully running pc for less

offcourse it won't run on 512mb. Do you know how Windows works? Biggest memory hog on the planet. 

This and the fact that a PC needs to use some of it's RAM to run the OS is pretty much the start and the end of the discussion.

Powerful PCs always had and always will crush consoles concerning graphics. The problem here is that they are much more expensive.