@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.
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.
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.
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Re: PlayStation 4 Specifications Harness Extraordinary Power
@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.
Re: PlayStation 4 Specifications Harness Extraordinary Power
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.
Re: PlayStation 4 Specifications Harness Extraordinary Power
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.