PlayStation 4 Specifications Harness Extraordinary Power

So. Much. Power. Wonder how the 720 will compare.

So they did go with the "Jaguar" chip after all, I guess this just goes to show how capable mobile chips are these days.

Those are some rather impressive specs, especially the 8GBs of GDDR5 RAM. Can't wait to see how things unfold.

Can someone put that in to English for those who aren't tech heads? What the hell are Teraflops? I haven't heard of that until today.

@Trikeboy

Think of a teraflop as a "huge" swarm of sparrows darting around the sky in sync, vs. a flock geese flying south. Basically a lot more data being processed at once, so everything runs faster, smoother, and can handle more task.

im sorry... but the new xbox is gonna be NO MATCH for the PS4!!! >

Extraordinary power?
How about harness the power of a mid range laptop?
Yes its a big leap from the PS4, but the jaguar CPU is intended as a rival for Intel atom, and was destined for tablets and entry level laptops.
The only extraodinary thing about the PS4 is the RAM, a roomy 8GB of nice fast RAM will finaly allow games to increase thier scope and complexity.

To Trikeboy:
A Terraflop is a metric for measuring computing performance, 1 Terraflop is a trillion floating point operations in a second. GPU's are very good at floating point math.
To put it in perspective, the playstation 3 GPU managed 0.4 Terraflops, so 1.83 Tflops makes the PS4 about 4 and a half times more powerful, an nVidia GTX 690 in a high end PC does around 5.63 Terraflops.

I find the ram to be the most surprising asoect of the hardware. Most of us were only expecting about 4GB and also the fact its GDDR5. Im looking forward to reading more detailed specs when they are released but I think we're gonna have to wait for the Next Xbox to be announced first

The specs are good, but not insane, which is a good thing considering I don't want to pay $599! The cpu seems disappointing, but does a game console really need an outstanding cpu? from what I understand the GPU is quite capable, and with the extremely fast RAM, and the cpu/gpu being placed together, there is almost no latency between the components, and they will be able to send as much information as possible at once.

One system, to rule them all.

@craigun Maybe not
Microsoft now have the advantage of knowing Sony's game plan.
Either way, this is an interesting direction for consoles to take, and it shows that Sony learned some hard lessons well with the PS3, namely make it affordable, make it easy to develop for and give it enough ram that developers are not constantly constrained by what they can shoehorn into the available space (hint; think Skyrim for an example of what happens when you cram too much into too little ram)
I'm not a console gamer myself, but like it or not consoles are the baseline for most big titles, and having 8 gig of ram as the baseline really is a game changer for the industry, so I am very excited to see what games will be developed in the future.