With the GPU knowledge here I'd like to get down to brass tacks and tackle this debate once and for all.
From Microsoft (various sources):
So with all this talk going on recently about the Xbox One not being that much slower than the PS4 and that the 30-50% figures being thrown around are "exaggerated" it got me thinking...How is this NOT a lie?
I mean, the PS4 has 384 more GPU cores (which is HALF the total number in the Xbox One - so you're looking at 150% for the PS4 vs. 100% for the Xbox One), it has GDDR5 RAM for CPU and GPU, double the ROP's, hUMA (which still hasn't been confirmed to be in the Xbox One, right?) bare metal access, etc...so how, purely based on hardware specs, could the PS4 not be 30-50% faster? I would think the extra 384 cores ALONE would automatically equal at least 30% faster. How could it not?
Is MS just talking out of their butts or does the Xbox One contain some magical powers that we aren't aware of? Because from what I can see on the technology side of things the PS4 just isn't faster, but it's clearly 30-50% faster EASILY.
Thoughts?
From Microsoft (various sources):
'No way' PS4 has a 30% power advantage over Xbox One
Difference between two consoles 'not as great as consumers believe'; Major Nelson 'looking forward to the truth coming out' about Xbox One.
The power difference between PlayStation 4 and Xbox One "is not as great as the raw numbers lead the average consumer to believe," Xbox's senior director of marketing and planning Albert Penello has stated, leading colleague Larry Hyrb to say that he is "very much looking forward to the next few months (and beyond) as the truth comes out" about the power of Xbox One.
So with all this talk going on recently about the Xbox One not being that much slower than the PS4 and that the 30-50% figures being thrown around are "exaggerated" it got me thinking...How is this NOT a lie?
I mean, the PS4 has 384 more GPU cores (which is HALF the total number in the Xbox One - so you're looking at 150% for the PS4 vs. 100% for the Xbox One), it has GDDR5 RAM for CPU and GPU, double the ROP's, hUMA (which still hasn't been confirmed to be in the Xbox One, right?) bare metal access, etc...so how, purely based on hardware specs, could the PS4 not be 30-50% faster? I would think the extra 384 cores ALONE would automatically equal at least 30% faster. How could it not?
Is MS just talking out of their butts or does the Xbox One contain some magical powers that we aren't aware of? Because from what I can see on the technology side of things the PS4 just isn't faster, but it's clearly 30-50% faster EASILY.
Thoughts?