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| 16 Mar 2013 10:47 PM |
The PlayStation 4 announcement last month immediately led to a PS4 vs Xbox 720 debate, but perhaps Sony and Microsoft's next-generation consoles are competing for second place. "Compared to gaming PCs, the PS4 specs are in the neighborhood of a low-end CPU, and a low- to mid-range GPU side," said Nvidia's Tony Tamasi to TechRadar. As Nvidia's senior vice president of content and development, he sees the PS4's specs as outdated, even today. "If the PS4 ships in December as Sony indicated, it will only offer about half the performance of a GTX680 GPU (based on GFLOPS and texture), which launched in March 2012, more than a year and a half ago." It only gets worse
Tamasi also notes that consoles, by definition, are closed platforms and not upgradeable. "What you get today in terms of performance is what you're stuck with five - 10 years down the road. PCs don't have these problems," he told TechRadar. "They are open and can be upgraded at any time to harness the power of newer GPUs for more performance and to take advantage of newer, modern graphics technologies." The gap between console and PC gaming has become more apparent this console generation, and Tamasi expects more of the same when PS4 and Xbox 720 get here. "If history predicts the future, then these next-generation consoles, while being more powerful than the current ones, will very quickly end up more than an order of magnitude behind the PC." PS4 not worth the cost to Nvidia
The comments from the Nvidia senior vice president are noteworthy because they aren't just from an industry rival trying promote PC gaming vs PS4. The remarks come from the same company that powers the PS3's graphics chip. Nvidia isn't buying into the PS4, however. Sony announced specs that include an eight-core AMD processor and a custom Radeon GPU. "I'm sure there was a negotiation that went on," Tamasi told GameSpot, "and we came to the conclusion that we didn't want to do the business at the price those guys were willing to pay." Instead, Tamasi said that Nvidia, with only so many engineers and so much capability, will be able to focus on another portion of its business that it wouldn't be able to if it did chips for Sony. Nvidia's projects include delivering high-end graphics cards like the GeForce GTX Titan and supplying Apple computers with GPUs. It's also looking to capture mobile processing with its Tegra 4i system on a chip for smartphones and tablets, and by releasing its own handheld gaming platform, Nvidia Project Shield.
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:48 PM |
TL;DR
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:49 PM |
you'e just seeping with intelligence, aren't you
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:50 PM |
| So basically what Nvidia is saying is the PS4 will be equal to the lower-middle end of modern PC's almost. |
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:50 PM |
@Imp Just because we are saying the thread is too long and that we didn't read it has nothing to do with our intellect. It's just the way it is.
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:53 PM |
| Almost as satisfying as Tripwire Interactive stating, and I quote, -Call of Duty "has almost ruined a generation of shooter players"- |
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:55 PM |
>refusing to read a thread and instead posting an unintelligent spam comment >intelligent
>PS3 is low end
so is the PS4 even by modern standards
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:56 PM |
>If you don't want the ps4, Don't buy it. You don't have to constantly make threads about this
i'm probably buying the PS4 over the nextbox so this statement was pretty stupid, just because a console has monkey feces for hardware doesn't mean it's bad
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:56 PM |
actually let me rephrase that, it can be bad but that doesn't mean i'm not buying it for its exclusives
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:57 PM |
so I should take a random VGFer's baseless assumption over a statement from an official from one of the largest hardware manufacturers in the world
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:57 PM |
"tl;dr"
If you aren't gonna read the thread, don't even bother replying. |
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| 16 Mar 2013 10:59 PM |
techradar/us/news/gaming/consoles/nvidia-compares-ps4-specs-to-a-low-end-cpu-1138051
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| 16 Mar 2013 11:02 PM |
going against your narrative =/= fake
try again ;)
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| 16 Mar 2013 11:02 PM |
@ironman
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Nvidia+compares+PS4+to+low+end+PC |
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| 16 Mar 2013 11:04 PM |
>Why can't pc fanboys handle that consoles are probably literally a million times more popular
why can't you handle that popularity and subjectivity aside that PCs are factually superior in all possible facets
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| 16 Mar 2013 11:04 PM |
@ironman
Read emret's post.
Even dang gamefaq's has the SAME thing. |
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| 16 Mar 2013 11:04 PM |
also
>techradar >not trustworthy
let me guess you'd rather me use slowtaku or "10/10 it's alright" IGN?
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| 16 Mar 2013 11:05 PM |
>Except for enjoyment
"subjectivity aside"
you're very unintelligent
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