PS4 graphical analysis - hardware

I analyse the recently announced Playstation 4 hardware. I'm guessing that the YBox360 will be roughly the same.

Listening through this video, it sounds like certain bits contradict each other. For example, the PS4 being similar to the PS3 vs PCs at launch, but then being priced cheaper and me considering that fair. I'll add annotations explaining it at some point if these points cause confusion!

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● PC Specs: Intel 3770K, 16 GB RAM, Geforce 670 2 GB.

[fesyuki]

This a 2013 video that actually understands how consoles work people here in 2022 & are still comparing teraflops as a metric of power

[iSOBigD]

Fair enough. As always, what will make console games seem good at first is the resolution (finally, 1080p instead of ~720p upscaling) and the fact that games will be optimized for the console specifically. Overall, it won't seem like a huge jump (ps2 to ps3) because there's very little new here. We can now use more post processing (glows, lens flares, anti aliasing, motion blur, etc.), higher resolution textures (less blurry surfaces) and tessellation with displacements for more rounded edges.

[TheRetroMaxOut]

its nice to have non-bias information for once!

[maksuree]

is that shot of you coffee-dunking the ram from a video, or is it just a random clip you added in?

[TUTAMKHAMON]

It is not 32 bit architecture, it's 64.

[TheAwwWtf]

I love your voice and they way you say things with it.

[gvonc]

Now that I see what I wrote I'm confused.What I ment is that PS4 is going to have only 4.5 Gigabytes of RAM availabe for games to use instead of 7.

[yikesmsmsmsm]

But... the trees are his enemy. Are you trying to bridge your relationship with the trees, 3kliksphilip?

[TUTAMKHAMON]

you didn't talk about the RAM being GDDR5. What's your opinion on that?

[VonCarlsson]

Are you running your CPU at stock speed? My 920 got 7.8 points.

[VonCarlsson]

Well it is overclocked of course. Running at 3.7 GHz (20*185). I could tune it up more, but it's probably not worth it at all.

[saityc]

I believe not. The Teraflops on PS4 are almost up to 2 TFLOPS, and in the Xbox One are about 1.5. It's a big difference in terms of being considered by Nvidia. Plus the RAM in the PS4 is GDDR5 and Xbox One uses the common RAM in PC's that's DDR3. So technically PS4 is better in graphics and processing power from both next-gen.

[BlueRootbeerz]

Please tell me that corsair vengance stick was broken o-o

[Mixa_Lv]

I don't mind even if consoles were really holding PCs back. If it wasn't so you would probably have to upgrade your PC components far more frequently.

[whattodo]

wow, very, very powerful pc you got there philip ... me only got old pen4, 1.5gb ram, gt220 T^T

[ObPoScene]

will a AMD HD 7850 be able to handle ps4 games?

[italiano]

You should keep in mind that now not everything will be done by the console. And that Sony wants to use the cloud more and more and thus taking away some load.

[EliteMon]

N00b question.

How does Sony plan to make use of all 8 GB RAM with a x86 processor?
Obviously they know what they're doing, but everything I've learned thus far tells me it's impossible.

Also, I thought the reason graphics cards performed better in physics simulation and graphical renders was due to the fact that graphics cards are strictly for mathematical operations, hence why code crackers use them more than a CPU.

Also I find RAM very interesting, especially with upcoming standards (DDR4)

[OcedarMopzar]

Wrong, the standard is ddr3. GDDR5 is the same ram used on graphics cards, and is much faster. It means the PS4 has nearly 3 times the "RAM power" as standard gaming pcs, and is the "secret weapon" of the system, so to say.

[dcj]

Um. None of us has actually used a ps4 controller so dont bash until you buy it or its on display in best buy or something.