Did you get dropped as a child? The 288 GB/s is the TRANSFER RATE. In other words it is how fast the data can be moved from RAM or Written to RAM. It has NOTHING to do with RAM size. You could have 2 GB of GDDR5 and still have 288 GB/s bandwidth. You should stick with consoles because apparently you know little about hardware tech.
This is a beast: http://www.vice.com/read/th... It runs Linux OS and therefore will have some performance overhead since it is not to the metal programmed for. So does that mean that the PS4 is still a beast?? Granted, Linux is a hell of a lot more efficient for hardware than bloated Windows is.....That explains why 97% of the supercomputers use Linux. I also hear that the Steam Box u...
I don't know what you are smoking, but the Steam Box is a Linux PC with Steam installed on it. There is still overhead to deal with....
Here is a little something for you guys to know. A CPU would do terrible in a computer if it used GDDR5 vs DDR3. If my i7-3820 was GDDR5 based then it would get owned, even with the high bandwidth by an i7-3820 that uses DDR3. Latency is a performance killer for the CPU, hence the reason DDR3 is used for CPU's. Keep in mind that all the Top500 supercomputers do not have CPU's that use GDDR5 either for this reason because performance is an absolute priority.
These beas...
I see that you cannot refute my facts. The PS4 will never compete against a PC with an i5/i7 CPU with an HD7870 or better video card. I'd put money on it. Either put up the money or shut up. The PS4 is a gaming machine ONLY! Also, I think it's funny that you assume on I am somebody who made a new account. Shows how pathetic you are.
I turned if off because the developers only gave TressFX to Lara Croft. Kind of silly to limit this tech to just her...
HEY!! Enjoy your PS4 kid because at least you get to play games with controllerzzz like I cannot use a Xbox 360 controller on my PC!! Let's not forget that my HD7970 video card does not had HDMI so that means I cannot hook it up to a TV!! OH MAN I'M JEALOUS! Too bad though, that the PS4 will not even rank in the top 40 on the Community Grid or Milkyway@home because of its limited computational power, even with the so called to the metal programming. Too bad the computers that will hel...
Sad that consolers are still stuck on the GHZ equals more performance myth. We PC guys have known every since 2003 when AMD was killing Intel's Pentium 4's (Intel has been dominating, though, since Core 2 Duo came out in 2006 to replace the Pentium 4's) that GHZ means nothing. It is all about how efficient the processor is at moving X amount of instructions per clock cycle. Also, we PC guys have learned that core numbers does not mean it is better. For an example an AMD X6 1100T i...
Do you know how much GDDR5 (Hint: much less than 8GB) it takes to render on a 1920*1080P screen?? NO!! Do you you know the difference between dedicated RAM that is 100% use for Video card GPU vs RAM that must be shared between the CPU and GPU?? NO!! Enjoy your ignorance! Also, if optimizations are all that, then why won't anyone take my offer of $1000 bet that an HD7950 or HD7970 will get compute tasks done faster like password cracking or number crunching for cancer research, even though...
@Allsystemgamer
I think at this point it is futile to even post a response to consolers. The consolers are too ignorant to understand what you said. I use my Xbox 360 controller on the PC to play the following: Trine 2, Super Meat Boy, Alice: Madness Returns, The Cave, Darksiders 2, and Darksiders. The ony time I use my K/M is for FPS games, RPG's or MMO's. I did not have to install any driver to make the 360 controller work. Windows 7 immediately recognized the contr...
@Tundra
I tried to educate consolers about these facts too, but they seem to like to remain blind to facts. Like if you google PCIE 3.0 vs 2.0 for gaming then they will see that even at a the slower 2.0 PCIE buss, the game frames per second do not change for video cards that are PCEI 3.0 capable. Also, if they bother to google CPU ram bandwidth vs performance, then they would see that CPU's gain zero benefit from higher bandwidth ram. It is low latency that matters the mo...
Neonridr, the 8 core CPU in the PS4 are WEAK cores. Core count means nothing if each core is weak. Just look at all the CPU benches that show Intel destroying AMD's X6 1100T processor which is 6 core with their 4 core processors. Even Intel's dual core processors destroy AMD's quad core processors. Also GDDR5 gives no benefit whatsoever to CPU's. It only benefits GPU's. An example is an i7-3820 which is 256 bit memory controller gets owned by an i7-3770K which only has a 1...
This is what started it: "PS4 is more powerful than current gaming PCs". See, we do not give two craps about a console, but when ignorance like the above statement is used by the average joe (consolers) who know very little about PC hardware then of course the PC crowd will go nuts.
Like you fools keep on talking about how our CPU's use DDR3 makes it inferior to the PS4, yet you fools do not realize that PC X86 CPU's are so heavily optimized with prefetch a...
Ummmm...Just so you know.....AMD no longer owns a chip fab. You should really try to keep up with tech news. AMD sold off Global Foundries long ago.
Your third paragraph, last sentence, is flawed because no where did I say I was playing Crysis. In fact I called it silly and said it's for graphics whores. Also, my last sentence: "But many PC gamers just like to play games for the experience just as consolers do", is what speaks volumes of what the majority PC gamers are. Look at the Steam hardware survey to see for yourself that only a very small percentage of PC gamers have elite specs. The ones you dealing with here are gra...
Intel i7-3820
AMD HD7970
RAM is at 16 GB
Resolution test at 1920X1080
Graphics at max
Score: 7542
You consolers keep on touting that the PS4 will use more of its hardware potential because of software optimizations. It does not matter against high end PC hardware because it is so powerful that poor optimization still allows larger compute power because of the large amounts of potential power. Also high end video cards can crack long passwords in minutes, do bitcoin mining, help find cure for cancer and other tasks MUCH faster than the PS4 could if these programs were to the metal programm...
You consolers keep on touting that the PS4 will use more of its hardware potential because of software optimizations. It does not matter against high end PC hardware because it is so powerful that poor optimization still allows larger compute power because of the large amounts of potential power. Also high end video cards can crack long passwords in minutes, do bitcoin mining, help find cure for cancer and other tasks MUCH faster than the PS4 could if these programs were to the metal programm...
***The following is for those ignorant about PC. I have no beef with console people. Just with people who do not understand PC hardware and try to boast that the PS4 has better hardware***
GDDR5 is on ALL current 600 series Nvidia video cards and ALL current HD7000 series AMD video cards. GDDR4 has been a dead graphics RAM for quite a while in the PC space as old tech. The reason the RAM amount is 3 GB or less on video cards is because the RAM is ONLY being used as a frame bu...
I like how you consolers say we PC guys are just parts installers. Well I am actually a programmer and I can tell you that software written for the PC x86 processors are 100% optimized when written in C++/C using Intel's Composer XE Studio: http://software.intel.com/e... to compile C/C++ code. Anyone who can program worth a damn uses Intel's compiler to take full advantage of their CPU's. Many games ...