"Xbox One and PS4 are a generation ahead of the best PC" - EA (CTO)

• Compass wrote on 2013-05-23 17:47

  The new console generation led by Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 are ahead of the highest end PC on the market, according to EA CTO Rajat Teneja in a post written on LinkedIn.
  
  "These architectures are a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market," wrote Teneja, a former employee of Microsoft.
  
  "Our benchmarks on just the video and audio performance are 8-10 times superior to the current gen," he continued. "The compute capabilities of these platforms and the data transfer speeds we can now bank on, essentially removes any notion of rationing of systems resources for our game engines."
  
  Teneja highlighted both Sony and Microsoft's focus on connected data as another key factor, stating Electronic Arts handles 50TB of telemetry data daily on its network. The newly announced consoles have committed to the cloud in such a way that will allow for the rapid development of this aspect of gaming.
  
  "We'll really start to see more examples of true cross-device play," he said. "Sony showed off the ability through their cloud gaming functionality to allow gamers to play high-end console titles on the handheld Vita product. The architecture of both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 present more opportunities to take your game from TV to smartphone to PC, with seamless ubiquity and experience gaming at any time, in any way on any device."
  
  His full post can be found here, while additional information regarding the new Xbox One console can be found in the stream below.

  
  
  Article via Polygon
  LinkedIn post.
  
  For anyone wondering what the specs are
  

  [Image: http://abload.de/img/untitledxcstj.png]

  
  
  Reminded me of this.
• Froglord of DESTINY!!! wrote on 2013-05-23 18:14
  Too bad they suck.
• Osayidan wrote on 2013-05-23 20:04
  highest end PC?
  Hope they're joking.
  Maybe a medium ranged piece of crap you buy from a manufacturer like Dell.
• Hitaki wrote on 2013-05-23 20:33
  I'd sooner build a rig with a titan and 16+ gigs of RAM.
• Hanna wrote on 2013-05-23 20:33
  what the fuck am i reading
• Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2013-05-23 20:38
  Senior management talking out of its arse again.
• Kendoza wrote on 2013-05-23 22:19
  Was this the same guy that was taking shots at the Wii U or someone different?
  
  Regardless, I think he's drunk and needs to go home. And take Xbox One with 'em.
• Thorne wrote on 2013-05-23 23:14
  [video=youtube;UU9Q8kv6lzw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU9Q8kv6lzw[/video]
  
  Tv.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-05-23 23:50
  Not even close?
  
  What PC did they decide to compare it to?
• Lewd wrote on 2013-05-24 01:21
  What
  FLOPS are fucking bullshit and do nothing
  I seriously hope they don't plan on playing any games with those CPUs either
• Royale wrote on 2013-05-24 01:35
  [Image: http://puu.sh/2ZRGI.jpg]
• Yoorah wrote on 2013-05-24 02:58
  Jaguar CPU cores (what the consoles use) are meant for low-power tablet computers. Derp. (Technically, they have two of them in the CPU package, but still.. derp.)
  
  From what I remember, the only advantage these consoles have is the amount of system memory bandwidth, as the GPU and CPU are better integrated. This would likely prove useful for gaming at higher resolutions, like 4K.. but any semi-decent gaming PC can compensate for that with better all-round hardware--and these consoles aren't even out yet. By the time they are out, not to mention a year later, PCs are going to widen the lead so much it won't even be funny. xP
  
  I'm just happy that the consoles finally got updated. It means PC ports will be less crippled for a while.
• Evaris wrote on 2013-05-24 04:50

  Quote from Yoorah;1094657:

  Jaguar CPU cores (what the consoles use) are meant for low-power tablet computers. Derp. (Technically, they have two of them in the CPU package, but still.. derp.)
  
  From what I remember, the only advantage these consoles have is the amount of system memory bandwidth, as the GPU and CPU are better integrated. This would likely prove useful for gaming at higher resolutions, like 4K.. but any semi-decent gaming PC can compensate for that with better all-round hardware--and these consoles aren't even out yet. By the time they are out, not to mention a year later, PCs are going to widen the lead so much it won't even be funny. xP
  
  I'm just happy that the consoles finally got updated. It means PC ports will be less crippled for a while.

  
  
  
  and let's not forget both the new xbox and ps4 are running off x86 so console ports should be better optimized. And the low clock rate of those Jaguar cores almost requires game devs to write for threading... so suddenly the AMD FX cores and Intel i7 cores should become more valid for gaming.
• Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2013-05-25 16:04

  Quote from Evaris;1094730:

  and let's not forget both the new xbox and ps4 are running off x86 so console ports should be better optimized. And the low clock rate of those Jaguar cores almost requires game devs to write for threading... so suddenly the AMD FX cores and Intel i7 cores should become more valid for gaming.

  
  Maybe it's all a conspiracy to make PC King of the Hill again.
• Osayidan wrote on 2013-05-26 13:15

  Quote from Campylobacter jejuni;1095400:

  Maybe it's all a conspiracy to make PC King of the Hill again.

  
  
  Not so much a conspiracy, it's just inevitable that for consoles to keep up with PCs, they need to become PCs.
  Then once they become PCs, what's the point of having them if you could just have a PC?
  One could argue things like easy placement, or game pad controllers... PCs can have them too, so invalid.