Soldato
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The number of teraflops won't win jack **** for anyone.
Poll: *The Official PlayStation 5 (PS5) Thread*
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I think that's definitely possible. Even today, in the unoptimised for SSD, games can run with very minimal pop-in if the devs allow you the option to push more power into it, on PC. I was just testing this a few days ago in Kingdom Come Deliverance. On consoles it's a pop-in fest, but on PC if you tweak it, because you can, you can get pop-in to be almost imperceptible and you can have LOD0s to be loaded from even further away than you can see them. And this is not on spaceship PCs, this is on a measly 6c/12t i7 from way back, with mediocre 3000 mhz DDR4 and a cacheless SSD barely hitting 500 MB/s.
Considering consoles are gonna have storage & IO many times faster than that, I'd say there's nothing stopping them except their own choices. I honestly think pop-in and the like are going to be non-issues going forward, though I'd still allow a chance for dumb arse studios like from Ubisoft to mess it up anyway, as they have before. But hardware-wise they're set to get rid of it.
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(I'm not buying either, btw)
BS post to whom ever did it. But I guess when trying to make a constructive argument in XbX thread, I am called a shill......
When trying to make a constructive argument in PS5, people like you post BS without understanding sht.
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Yup. They forget that things like the RX570 is 6Tflop GPU has lesser real time performance to GTX1060 which is 4.5Tflop.
And here we have exactly the same thing. Different APIs, different hardware yet feeling we talking to brick walls.
The GPU architecture is essentially the same, so the TF comparisons are still more than valid when talking about pure horsepower.
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But the API is not. The GPU is not also the same. The PS5 has another part in there called GPU Scrubber which the XBX doesn't.
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I say wait for the price. MS is preparing the proper "cheap" console named "Lockhart"......
Who knows and I'm not really talking about FPS.
You can certainly feel how big this is by the reaction of a load of Devs.
They have started comming out and saying this is game changing. Also Cenry!! He knows what he talking about.
I will prob have both consoles at some stage but Microsoft has to get all thoses game developers they bought to work and fast.
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That's what it all comes down too, games sell consoles not hardware.
Your initial uptake may have those excited about specs but when its all said and done these things serve one important purpose, they enable us to play the latest and greatest games.
If you have very little in the way of games to get excited about then most people wont folk out £500 just because your hardware is impressive.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but listening to Cerny talk about the new Tempest 3d audio engine, is he saying that it can also be used for non audio tasks? leveraging it's compute power elsewhere? if so I can see Sony's first party studio's getting very creative with it (given that it's power equities to all 8 jaguar cores on the PS4) it may give that extra little bit of juice needed
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I am still buying a PS5
(I'm not buying either, btw)
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(I'm not buying either, btw)
If you watch the Digital Foundry video about the PS5 they even state that just because the PS5 is less powerful than the XBSX it doesn't actually mean it will be because of how Sony are structuring the PS5.
Well the actual comments from game devs has certainly been encouraging after the initial doom and gloom. I got caught up in the Bs terraflops hype and then looked at my Switch and remembered what actually mattered.
Xbox doesn't have a lot of the niche games I play like Disgaea and a few other jap things.
My #1 concern is noise.
Xbox doesn't have a lot of the niche games I play like Disgaea and a few other jap things.
My #1 concern is noise.
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If Sony continues to offer quality exclusives like nioh 2, Bloodborne and days gone then I will be sticking with playstation. Im not a fan boy (I owned Xbox original and 360) but at this point have a sizeable PS4 and psvr collection plus all my friends are on PSN. MS need some praise for raising the hardware stakes and for gamepass. But ignoring Vr is a big mistake for me, it's the most exciting gaming advancement for years. I'm surprised they can't do a deal with oculus to get it compatible with Xbox or even just get windows Mr headset compatability.