Yes callahan....
A $3000 PC will get beaten by a $1000 PC inside about 18 months, 2 years maximum. Thats how fast tech moves. 18 months ago $900 5870 crossfire and $1000 i7 975 would have been as good as it got without going quad GPU, pointless thanks to scaling. Today you can get better performance for far less than half the cost with a $350 i7 2600k and $500 6950 crossfire.
The new consoles will not be around until late 2012/early 2013 most likely. By t...
Lets not forget what we have seen of battlefield 3- PC footage. It does not mean that frostbite 2 will provide anything like that fidelity on consoles. Lets face it, it will not.
So for fairness sakes look at the PC version of black ops which is not on the same level of the BF3 footage we have seen, but is by no means ugly. It is considerably better on PC than console, black ops is a very low resolution on console.
Lets also not forget that the engine is ...
PS3 has a very specific set of circumstances where it performs at its peak. 360 does not. PS3 is like a racing engine, with all the power piled at one end of the rev range whereas 360 is more torquey like a powerful road car, more usable more of the time even if ultimately PS3 is faster in the right limited set of circumstances.
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I would argue and say metro 2033 is at least as technically accomplished as Crysis, and BF3 looks incredible.
More and more developers have games this year looking to exploit modern Pc hardware because of the wide gap that now exists between it and the consoles. There are 7 or 8 high profile games out inside the next couple months alone that will have DX11 support. Lets not forget we are in a topic which sees the most popular multi platform engi...
Well 'next gen' in the case i referred to was with generations of Graphics processors/process technology.
When a new, more advanced smaller process technology arrives then you usually see another large step in GPU performance. The lines are not entirely distinct, but generally as a new process arrives, you see a considerable leap in performance from the fastest single GPU cards. Halfway between these distinct generations, you usually see a 'refresh' of model...
Feel it looks poor on PC, at least the settings provided in the demo. I know they can't be max settings however as i kept an eye on my video memory usage and it only just broke 500mb. The original Crysis has no trouble at all eating up over twice that, 1.1GB video RAM. The image seems smeary and vaseline coated, not a nice thing when you play crisp PC titles all day long.
360 i was reasonably impressed with performance and how the game looked. The only real downside for...
Yes chak, yes.
GTX590 and 6990 will be AT LEAST 1.5 times as fast as GTX580, actually probably closer to but a little shy of 2x the theoretical performance because of thermal and power constraints. These will be here within a few weeks, still on 40nm of course.
28nm will typically bring a top end single GPU also AT LEAST 1.5 times faster than GTX580, but again, probably slighter faster than even that conservative estimate. Two of those will likely go onto...
PC will run this in realtime, this year. When the summer comes around and the 28nm generation of GPUs hit, this will be possible in realtime in a game if someone builds it.
Expect the fastest GPU by the end of this year to have at least 3x the performance of a GTX580.
Already a GTX580 is roughly 8-10 times as fast as the console GPUs. The next level will arrive this year with a long overdue 28nm node.
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The consoles just screwed over the PC version sadly. Crytek have clearly been fishing for licensees of their engine on console, and stretched so thin, will launch an unfinished PC version, effectively designed for console and tossed onto PC as an afterthought.
I don't care if someone claims that there are no ports, its now blindingly obvious this game is built for console, and does nothing with PC's massively superior hardware.
Crytek simply bit o...
CELL does have a lot of bandwidth for a CPU. This shows why it was intended to be used for more than just conventional CPU tasks, because XDR imbued it with a huge chunk of bandwidth, just over 25GB/s.
The only consumer X86 desktop PC central processors that have more bandwidth to this day, five years later, are triple channel intel i7 systems with fast DDR3.
XDR in PS3 has now been bested by GDDR5 for speed, although XDR2 is still by far and away the fas...
Sighs. CONTEXT people.
Why is this so hard for you to understand? With my second statement before anyone else butted in, i made it VERY CLEAR EVEN FOR STUPID PEOPLE that when i said 'up', i meant performance. Not overall higher numbers. My explanation of the industry numbering system (in that example Nvidia's Geforce) should make this frickin obvious to even the most stupid of readers.
"When i said 8800 up, i meant faster, not a higher nu...
@2spock, im dumb? It is you're. Not your. Duuhhhh.
How is using the word up to indicate better performance a mistake?
Why are you telling me what i meant when i know what i meant clearly and what my use of the word up was in MY statement?
Why are you arguing when i clarified EXACTLY what i meant by the use of the word up in my very next statement before the idiots even came out and claimed i was incorrect? I even explained the numbe...
Yes tarasque, AND UP. Faster. I thought it was obvious that is what i meant. I figured there was not anyone stupid enough to dispute that i meant faster or better.
Clearly i was wrong about that and there are people out there still dumb enough and ignorant enough about graphics that literally took my statement as meaning higher number, even though i didn't say that.
Next time i guess i will have to phrase my replies for morons who take everything that...
Naw, you just dont know anything about graphics. When i said 8800 up, i meant faster, not a higher number. So you know nothing.
Higher overall numbers dont count for a lot in the world of graphics. What you have is a very, very low end integrated 9 series processor. You have crappy integrated processors. Hence the two after the nine. Whereas 88 meant that the 8 series i referred to was a previous generation, but a top end previous generation chip signified by the second num...
Naw.....anything from a Geforce 8800 up will tear the consoles a new one and beat them upside the head with their own hard drives.
Old cards like that infest ebay, can be had for next to nothing. Cram one in your average PC box et voila, console beater
Consoles do not have large operating systems so need less memory to start with. However....
For one thing, you need fast memory. Fast memory means more bandwidth, which is important for graphics processors and games. Fast memory is expensive. Most computers have a large pool of (relatively) slow system RAM which needs to store a lot of data but does not typically need to transfer data so quickly, and then video cards have a smaller pool of much faster more expensive memory ...
I think UE3's favour of 360 is because of Epic's very early and deep collaboration with Microsoft on the machine's hardware and software.
Allegedly it was Epic working on UE3 and Gears of war a few years prior to release who demanded 360 be equipped with 512mb of system memory when microsoft initially specced 256.
All of UE3's initial console games were on 360 right up to late 2007- two years after 360 launched. I think Epic struggled to g...
Another big factor with PS3 was sony launched the machine with a bloated operating system. Initially sony reserved a quite massive 120mb of the machine's memory. Xbox 360 has never used more than 32mb of it's unified 512mb, everything fitted in that, from the dashboard to custom soundtracks, EVERYTHING.
So the first time a developer came to PS3 to port a game or even make a new one, they found PS3 was giving away massive amounts of RAM to 360, trying to fit as much ...
Its the first point of this generation where PS3 can be had at a pricepoint rivalling that of xbox 360 in the u.k.
Ever since it has launched PS3 has been considerably more expensive here in the uk, and has been hampered at retail against microsoft's machine. We can see better now the price gap has closed how well PS3 will perform at retail against 360 on an equal price footing.
I would also say many of those if not all of the larger shots are PC. The game looks horribly dated, like a PC game from about 2005. But we were warned this in previews. It has been in development hell after all.
This game just isnt about the visuals. If you are looking for a cutting edge tech fest on any platform then move along...nothing to see here. If you want a new duke nukem after more than a decade of waiting, then enjoy.