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whatever on 17 May 2014
Dadrik said:
I'm pretty astounded that so many people actually believe in this.
PS4 has its hardware. It won't change. So a few tweaks can improve performances, that's true. But an "astounding" improvement ? Come on...

Have you seen what people think DX12 will do?  This is the same thing.



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GribbleGrunger on 17 May 2014
BenVTrigger said:
GribbleGrunger said:
BenVTrigger said:
Ok all these rumors about magic hardware in the cons. Nees needs to go away.

This has nothing to do with secret hardware, this is to do with the ICE improving the coding/drivers.


Improving drivers and coding will never have a major impact on console hardware performance. The people who believe these kinds of rumors dont understand how hardware works.

Consoles by default have incredibly low access APIs and in that manner already are as close to "coding to the metal" that youll get. Thats not to say we wont see some improvement / refinement but Thuway is acting like this is a huge move and massive power boost. Refining an API in a console will not do that 

We'll see. I'm not believing it or disbelieving it at the moment.



 

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green_sky on 17 May 2014

Good lord. When are these people going to stop. Was the start of last generation equally bad in terms of graphics contest between green and red?



kensama on 17 May 2014

BenVTrigger said:

Improving drivers and coding will never have a major impact on console hardware performance. The people who believe these kinds of rumors dont understand how hardware works.

Consoles by default have incredibly low access APIs and in that manner already are as close to "coding to the metal" that youll get. Thats not to say we wont see some improvement / refinement but Thuway is acting like this is a huge move and massive power boost. Refining an API in a console will not do that 


And yet when you see improvement on graphics during a console lifetime cycle it impact it.
Plus i think ICE works now to implement GPGPU for PS4 to be effective in 2015 (Cerny's road map for GPGPU on PS4)



BenVTrigger on 17 May 2014
green_sky said:
Good lord. When are these people going to stop. Was the start of last generation equally bad in terms of graphics contest between green and red?


No the graphica nitpicking and crazy hardware theories are at an all time high this gen



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zumnupy10 on 17 May 2014

If the rumor didn't involve ICE team I wouldn't give attention.

These guys did a great job on the PS3.



vivster on 17 May 2014

Nah. The hardware is pretty clear cut. I don't believe there is much more in it. At least nothing that couldn't be done on the X1 as well.



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BenVTrigger on 17 May 2014
kensama said:

BenVTrigger said:

Improving drivers and coding will never have a major impact on console hardware performance. The people who believe these kinds of rumors dont understand how hardware works.

Consoles by default have incredibly low access APIs and in that manner already are as close to "coding to the metal" that youll get. Thats not to say we wont see some improvement / refinement but Thuway is acting like this is a huge move and massive power boost. Refining an API in a console will not do that 


And yet when you see improvement on graphics during a console lifetime cycle it impact it.
Plus i think ICE works now to implement GPGPU for PS4 to be effective in 2015 (Cerny road map for GPGPU on PS4)

That has nothing to do with adding power through refining the API though. No power is being added

You see improvements over the course of a generation due to engines becoming refined and learning how to streamline things such as texture processing. This rumor indicates actual useable power is being added through the refining of the consoles API which offers universal access to all developers. While they may have improved the API a bit saying its a massive addition to power isnt the way graphics processing hardware works.



Nate4Drake on 17 May 2014
Captain_Tom said:
E3 cannot come soon enough!

This. Can't wait anymore.  Of course there's a lot of PS4 power to be squeezed year after year, this is normal.  Games will look amazing. Uncharted4 will crash our jaw !



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Adameh on 17 May 2014

But is there enough secret sauce to go around?!



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