PS4 and Xbox One 'a generation ahead' of high end PCs - EA CTO

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Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are a generation more powerful than today's high-end PCs, according to an Electronic Arts exec.

Writing on LinkedIn, EA chief technology officer Rajat Teneja noted that the horsepower of current high-end PCs will be dwarved by Sony and Microsoft's next-gen consoles.
"Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have adopted electronics and an integrated systems-on-a-chip (soc) architecture that unleashes magnitudes more compute and graphics power than the current generation of consoles," Teneja wrote.

On the comparison between current and next-gen consoles, Teneja believes the new consoles will perform 8-10 times better than the PS3 and Xbox 360.

"These architectures are a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market and their unique design of the hardware, the underlying operating system and the live service layer create one of the most compelling platforms to reimagine game mechanics."

Similarly, Avalanche Studios CTO Linus Blomberg said in March that the PlayStation 4's 8gb RAM will ensure it will "out-power most PCs for years to come."

Xbox One was this week unveiled at an event in Washington. Read all about it at our Xbox One information hub.

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danb95Posted:

Who cares if it's better than a pc or not it's cheaper than buying s high end pc.

Beet A high end pc has a GTX Titan. Neither consoles will have that.

No console is going to cost 800 plus.Whoever spends 800 plus on a graphics card is an idiot, end of.

BeetPosted:

GR33NV3N0M
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memo_drpepper_14
zredstarv1 This is has to be the dumbest comment of the year in the gaming industry. Since Nvidia announcing their newest GPU the GTX 780 the other day, This comment is obsolete LOL. Seriously, the next gen consoles have 8 core processor clocked at 1.5GHz. Thats no where near on par with AMD flagship model FX-8350 8 core processor clocked at 4.2GHZ. These consoles don't support desktop GPU's they support mobile GPU. I read the new PS4 will feature a Radeon 7870M GPU. The next Gen console are not on the same field as high end desktops, But their on the same field as mid entry gaming laptops. Besides, gamers who build high end destops like me, dont use AMD products. BTW these console's do not have a ssd in them. SSD reduces load times dramatically. Last time I checked, consoles do not support liqiud cooling. This means no over clocking your new Xbox One or PS4. That being said, here's another moron saying another stupid comment to try to boost the sells up. If you try to argue this you are also a moron. You've obviously never built a desktop.


you ever wonder why you need a mid end pc to play this years games but, they are still made on xbox and ported to ps3 and pc. xbox and ps3 have low end specs yet play these newer games. its optimization developers take time to optimize with what they have to make 'em run smoothly. so now they are getting mid-high end specs so that means it will have amazing game engines, 1000 square mile maps and awesome graphics comparable to those who have 2000 dollar gaming machines. so its hard to compare console specs to pc specs, and it may absolutely be possible these "specs" are going to have more advanced graphics and AI then high end computers today.


lol your not getting 1000 square mile maps on console. Those are a joke. These consoles are no where near even low spec computers today. I don't care how much you optimize it, my 5-year old gaming computer will still outperform those 'new' consoles


because im sure that a multinational company like EA hires somone that knows nothing about technology to be their Chief tech officer JUST so he can write things like this and be proven wrong by people like you.

You have no idea what capabilities the new consoles have, they have "Heavily" modified GPU's that have been specifically optimized, i dont care how much of a PC fanboy you are these new consoles im sure will be AT the very least on par with high end rigs these days.

i spent 850 building my own rig and sure it plays games like skyrim and crysis 3 really smooth and with much better graphics than the 360 does BUT ive had my 360 for 7 years, never had to replace anything in it or upgrade anything and it plays ALL new games that are released without any troubles what so ever.

can you say you have the same gaming rig you had 7 years ago and without replacing anything in it will still play crysis 3 on ultra settings ? nope you cant.

i dont care what your opinions are if you are going to give childish fan boy comments and know nothing about the new consoles that can even back up your redundant statement.

GV


A high end pc has a GTX Titan. Neither consoles will have that.

MootPosted:

slaughtercell Nvidia will die out because the architecture on AMD is better


hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaahhaahhahahaah oh god you're sofaking funny

DsTs_VelocityPosted:

Biggest load of crap ever heard. PC's have had the hardware the new consoles just got for almost a year or more. These new consoles are going to have better specs than the older ones they wont beat gaming Pc's on any stabdard. The only PC i see them beating in specs is probably a $300 Dell laptop

liamcole123Posted:

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slapshot101 There is no way, with these specs, these next gen consoles are better then the high end PC's. just take the 8 GB of Memory. 16GB comes standard on any Mac and 8 GB is the absolute lowest of any PC made now.


This is not entirely true. Any 32 bit systems being made will cap at 4gb of RAM.


The 8GB in PCs are used by the OS, games, other programs and a whole bunch of stuff. The 8GB in the consoles is purely for games but getting a 32Gb RAM card will soon put an end to that!

liamcole123Posted:

Requirement Wow, Xbox One is actually beating PC. What the heck.


It's really not, stop believing stuff just because they say it's true, the Xbox One is packing an 8-core CPU at 1.5GHz, my 3 year old AMD Phenom 2 6-core at 3.2GHz is way faster than that! If anything, the consoles will be on par with middle-end PC's but after a year, they will be far below low-end PC's!

GR33NV3N0MPosted:

xXopticsXx
memo_drpepper_14
zredstarv1 This is has to be the dumbest comment of the year in the gaming industry. Since Nvidia announcing their newest GPU the GTX 780 the other day, This comment is obsolete LOL. Seriously, the next gen consoles have 8 core processor clocked at 1.5GHz. Thats no where near on par with AMD flagship model FX-8350 8 core processor clocked at 4.2GHZ. These consoles don't support desktop GPU's they support mobile GPU. I read the new PS4 will feature a Radeon 7870M GPU. The next Gen console are not on the same field as high end desktops, But their on the same field as mid entry gaming laptops. Besides, gamers who build high end destops like me, dont use AMD products. BTW these console's do not have a ssd in them. SSD reduces load times dramatically. Last time I checked, consoles do not support liqiud cooling. This means no over clocking your new Xbox One or PS4. That being said, here's another moron saying another stupid comment to try to boost the sells up. If you try to argue this you are also a moron. You've obviously never built a desktop.


you ever wonder why you need a mid end pc to play this years games but, they are still made on xbox and ported to ps3 and pc. xbox and ps3 have low end specs yet play these newer games. its optimization developers take time to optimize with what they have to make 'em run smoothly. so now they are getting mid-high end specs so that means it will have amazing game engines, 1000 square mile maps and awesome graphics comparable to those who have 2000 dollar gaming machines. so its hard to compare console specs to pc specs, and it may absolutely be possible these "specs" are going to have more advanced graphics and AI then high end computers today.


lol your not getting 1000 square mile maps on console. Those are a joke. These consoles are no where near even low spec computers today. I don't care how much you optimize it, my 5-year old gaming computer will still outperform those 'new' consoles


because im sure that a multinational company like EA hires somone that knows nothing about technology to be their Chief tech officer JUST so he can write things like this and be proven wrong by people like you.

You have no idea what capabilities the new consoles have, they have "Heavily" modified GPU's that have been specifically optimized, i dont care how much of a PC fanboy you are these new consoles im sure will be AT the very least on par with high end rigs these days.

i spent 850 building my own rig and sure it plays games like skyrim and crysis 3 really smooth and with much better graphics than the 360 does BUT ive had my 360 for 7 years, never had to replace anything in it or upgrade anything and it plays ALL new games that are released without any troubles what so ever.

can you say you have the same gaming rig you had 7 years ago and without replacing anything in it will still play crysis 3 on ultra settings ? nope you cant.

i dont care what your opinions are if you are going to give childish fan boy comments and know nothing about the new consoles that can even back up your redundant statement.

GV

RequirementPosted:

Wow, Xbox One is actually beating PC. What the heck.

Bacon1771Posted:

Go home EA, your drunk.

SorceryPosted:

This is the biggest load of shit I've ever seen, go home EA.


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