Nvidia: PS4 specs are low end CPU and mid range GPU

[mightymuffy]

Interesting point by Pluupy there: the PS3 has already given us Uncharted 3 - quite the looker! 360? Off the top of my head, Forza Horizon, another super looking game! Imagine both of these games running at 1080p and 60fps: jaw dropping! And that would require what, 3x more oomph? 4x maximum?Maybe even less than that..
PS4 is more than 4x the power of the PS360 - a quick gander would suggest pushing 8x based on the half rumoured/half confirmed specs as a random figure... sure it might not top a comp with Titan cards running in SLi, but maybe it's still offering more than enough for the next few years anyway?

 

[Rydian]

Well that's what consoles tend to do. They put acceptable graphics in an acceptable price range. It's a limited/locked system so you don't get access to nearly as much on any single one, but it's easier to use.

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

Well that's what consoles tend to do. They put acceptable graphics in an acceptable price range. It's a limited/locked system so you don't get access to nearly as much on any single one, but it's easier to use.

As long as they don't dip into NeoGeo or 3DO price ranges... lol

 

[iFish]

The whole point of consoles is to not worry about specs and being able to run all the current games.
I don't know why you care about this kinda thing. If you care about specs just build a gaming PC and be done with it.
I'm so sick and tired of people comparing console specs to their highest end gaming PCs.

 

[Rydian]

The whole point of consoles is to not worry about specs and being able to run all the current games.
I don't know why you care about this kinda thing. If you care about specs just build a gaming PC and be done with it.
I'm so sick and tired of people comparing console specs to their highest end gaming PCs.

Games get ported between consoles and PCs. If one console lacks enough power for a game, odds are it'll not get the game, or only get a cut-down version of it.

People don't want the PS4 to be the next Wii.

 

[tronic307]

Hey, I got Tomb Raider to run on one core! If I changed the affinity while it was running it would use 100% of one core and still run at like 1/4 frame rate. I had to create a shortcut with this command in the target line: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "Tomb Raider" /high /affinity 8 "I:\TombRaider\TombRaider.EXE". Runs OK. For some reason, it seems to use more system services than multi-core. Less threads & overall cpu % though.