Xbox One and PS4 are a generation ahead of the best PC, says EA CTO
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[QUOTE]The new console generation led by Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 are ahead of the highest end PC on the market, according to EA CTO Rajat Teneja in a post written on [URL="http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130522214715-10904058-the-technology-behind-xbox-one"]LinkedIn[/URL]."These architectures are a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market," wrote Teneja, a former employee of Microsoft.
"Our benchmarks on just the video and audio performance are 8-10 times superior to the current gen," he continued. "The compute capabilities of these platforms and the data transfer speeds we can now bank on, essentially removes any notion of rationing of systems resources for our game engines."[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/23/4358396/xbox-one-and-ps4-are-a-generation-ahead-of-the-best-pc-says-ea-cto"]
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/23/4358396/xbox-one-and-ps4-are-a-generation-ahead-of-the-best-pc-says-ea-cto[/URL]
HA. HA.
By 'Highest end PC on the market' do they mean 'Highest end PC sold at Best Buy'?
How about no?
They wish.
PC MASTER RACE
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Oh you EA.
Also I hate how people ignore the Wii-U, it is a next generation console.
hahahaha
PCs can't render tacti[I]cool[/I] dogs
the only thing that's [I]maybe[/I] true about this is the octocore processor, and as we all know cores != performance...
They are a generation ahead of [i]my[/i] best PC, but I seriously doubt they are a generation ahead of [i]the[/i] best gaming PC.
The Wii-U is actually amazing, but really no console can pass PC's. Silly EA
BEHOLD
no dell optiplex will be able to stand against the power of teh cloud
[QUOTE=Protocol7;40752842]the only thing that's [I]maybe[/I] true about this is the octocore processor, and as we all know [B]cores != performance[/B]...[/QUOTE]
not if you ask AMD
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I think PC's have had 8 cores, 8+GB of ram and high end graphics cards ages before consoles.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my consoles, but to say they're generations ahead of PC is stupid. Hardware is constantly changing in the PC market, hell it is to the point you can get the highest end GPU and end up having it obsolete by the next month or so.
Deluding yourself to that extent is sorta sad
This guy must be getting tons of fiber to have produced a pile of shit that big.
[QUOTE=barttool;40752859]not if you ask AMD
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well they [I]are[/I] making the APUs...
and like we saw on the X360 and PS3 the devs won't make full use of the massively improved hardware until a few years into the product's lifecycle. so our little EA CTO is a bovine excrementer
They cannot be compared. Completely different architecture and uses.
I'm sure PC's have a disadvantage to a certain degree by coping with a larger variety of different processing uses, whilst this "unified" type of architecture in consoles will trump an equal PC, especially as it is designed for games, no?
Although I think haveing a PC equivilent of the specs would be inseperable, and I think PC's could support better hardware.
[QUOTE=whatthe;40752891]They cannot be compared. Completely different architecture and uses.[/QUOTE]
the One and PS4 are both x86-64
Yeah and the PS3 is a supercomputer with infinite power.
That's a bit ridiculous. It would however be interesting to know how good of a PC you could build for the launch price of the Xbox One or PS4.
8 cores woo, too bad they're probably all slower than what you've got in a low-end laptop, and it's x86, so ugh.
The small form-factor and the core-count has me worried on what the fuck they're skimping on.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;40752898]the One and PS4 are both x86-64[/QUOTE]
I'm talking about comparing to PC's being physically seperated into parts/cards. Surely by having it intergrated, and enough research into the field you could yeild better results without bottlenecks everywhere realying on seperated standards. Again, I don't know enough, so I'm just covered in pseudo here.
[QUOTE=nikomo;40752919]8 cores woo, too bad they're probably all slower than what you've got in a low-end laptop, and it's x86, so ugh.
The small form-factor and the core-count has me worried on what the fuck they're skimping on.[/QUOTE]
x86 doesn't mean 32bit. Please people, get your facts straight!
By the time these things release they'll be even further behind, let alone if you consider their 8 year lifecycle.
amount of cores means nothing if the games aren't utilizing and optimized for it. which is rather hard unlike popular belief
Except that with each passing year we see at least one new generation of hardware.
uh
this dipshit knows how good you can make good PCs now right
the titan itself costs more than consoles do
That is impossible because consoles are actually computers, with basically computer hardware.
Generations ahead of discounted notebooks, perhaps.
Well, theres a reason you are a [b]former employee[/b] at microsoft...
I dont even understand how you can think that when computers with the same abilities as the x1 and the ps4 have already existed for years before. Heck, my pc is 6 years old or something and it was already severely outdated because there were already machines like these.
Technically, he is right. If developers could make full use of the hardware right now then they would likely be capable of doing more than with a current high-end PC setup. However, that just isn't possible. Even with the Xbox 360's relatively accessible hardware, it took years for developers to eke out every last drop of processing power and memory, and the same will happen with this generation. You can see it already with the Unreal Engine 4 demo on the PS4; it had reduced particles, less shadows, lower resolution shadows, and simpler lighting than the PC demo. So while this is a technically correct statement, it isn't a realistic reflection of how the games will end up.
[QUOTE=Xonax;40752829]Oh you EA.
Also I hate how people ignore the Wii-U, it is a next generation console.[/QUOTE]
It's also going to become a gamecube all over again so it might as well be considered out of the running again
This doesn't help the Wii U's case: [url]http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2013/05/18/wii-u-two-years-of-negative-brand-momentum/[/url]
The name itself is defective by design
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