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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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/408812/ps4-and-xbox-one-a-generation-ahead-of-high-end-pcs-ea-cto/

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ORL_MAGICPosted:

Even if this where to be true. It would only take a year for the new consoles to be outdated compared to a pc. This in no way in hell is true though. It will come close but will never reach it. I realize they sell these things at a loss because of a whole stock market, and game selling scheme, but with the specs they released I already know my pc is better than it and I spent less money on it then it took them to make their console.
Now yes the new consoles will have the whole 8 ddr5 ram but its unnecessary to have. Most pc gamers now are playing at 1080p(which I might add games only play at 720p on consoles but are stretched out to be 1080p), with 60 fps(minimum). The most ram I have ever used at once was 3 gb while playing gta 4 and dayz(arma 3 mod). I am still wondering whos bright idea it was to have 8gbs in a console. It is just overkill. I know people are gonna say, well it needs to run skype, xbox messenger, the game, blah blah blah. I only have 4gb of ram currently(other stick got fried) and I run skype video call, play dayz, have steam open, and to top it all of I sometimes stream. And never cap out. Now I am not one of those people trying to bring down the xbox, as I am going to be getting one, but to say it is the same, let alone ahead, of pc is insane.

HDITeRRoRiZeIPosted:

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bingbing10 ahha this is no way true how can they make a console for 400 pounds thats more powerful than a pc ?!


This is how many people get it wrong.
Microsoft are a multi-Billionare-valued Company. They dont need to gain any more money at the moment. im sure if Bill gates gets $67,000,000,000 a year, that wont realy matter.

Plus, they don`t charge you the full-building price... that would be kinda stupid.
They reduce the price dramatically.


Indeed, they always sell the console at a loss and make the profit back with games and accessories. Ever noticed how much that WiFi adapter cost for the Xbox Fat?


I know, people obviously think of it as a great deal for the Xbox One itself. But then they figure a xbox isn`t nothing without Accessories or Discs (games) and so the laundering of buying the games rolls in.

I hear PC gamers on comment sections like this saying this insn`t possible to have a better console than the highest-end PC, but that`s just because it hasn`t been done before. I think it has reached a point in technology where; by the time the Xbox after the "One" is released, no one will realy bother buying it because i don`t think it will be a very big jump in proccessing speed, Hard Drive size etc, between the machines. Ive heard some people complaining about the HD Size (500GB) I don`t see how this is a problem? i never used up the 250GB on my 360, and i think MS & Sony will come up with a method to compress the size of games like ISO did by using the MP3/MP4 with Music, i believe?

WokzePosted:

wow, got high expectations for this new console then :D

MPAAPosted:

HDITeRRoRiZeI
bingbing10 ahha this is no way true how can they make a console for 400 pounds thats more powerful than a pc ?!


This is how many people get it wrong.
Microsoft are a multi-Billionare-valued Company. They dont need to gain any more money at the moment. im sure if Bill gates gets $67,000,000,000 a year, that wont realy matter.

Plus, they don`t charge you the full-building price... that would be kinda stupid.
They reduce the price dramatically.


Indeed, they always sell the console at a loss and make the profit back with games and accessories. Ever noticed how much that WiFi adapter cost for the Xbox Fat?

DubstepprojetPosted:

bingbing10 ahha this is no way true how can they make a console for 400 pounds thats more powerful than a pc ?!


They tend to not make money from the system itself and instead the games that they sell

HDITeRRoRiZeIPosted:

bingbing10 ahha this is no way true how can they make a console for 400 pounds thats more powerful than a pc ?!


This is how many people get it wrong.
Microsoft are a multi-Billionare-valued Company. They dont need to gain any more money at the moment. im sure if Bill gates gets $67,000,000,000 a year, that wont realy matter.

Plus, they don`t charge you the full-building price... that would be kinda stupid.
They reduce the price dramatically.

Shea-Posted:

Linear People below me must be idiots.

Please tell me where you could build a gaming pc with 8GB DDR5 RAM


Only the PS4 uses DDR5, not the Xbox. Besides, A lot of PC's have DDR5. It's not rare.

MPAAPosted:

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ITG lol? we'll see about that


Yeh i know, it wont be as good as the couple of thousands $'s PC's but they will be better than alot of pc's


And quickly become out of date as PCs are continuously updated, consoles have to last 5+ years before the next console generation.

SCOPosted:

ITG lol? we'll see about that


Yeh i know, it wont be as good as the couple of thousands $'s PC's but they will be better than alot of pc's

AnkokuPosted:

Consoles are basically Stable PCS computers cost to much damn money. And an Xbox and Playstation have really good software for the price.