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Xbox One/PS4 Specs

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Godlik3

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I was looking at some news about GTA V and I seen a remark about the Xbox One, which reminded me that the next-gen consoles are coming out in a few months. I also seen the specs but really couldn't understand them. Are the next-gen consoles close to the typical high-end PC, or are they close to mid or even low range PC's.

Thanks -Godlik3z
 
They'll be able to play all the titles that drop for them somewhere between 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz and 1280x720 @ 30 Hz depending on the precise graphics demands.

They ain't tri-titan SLI, but they'll be perfectly fine for gaming in your living room on a TV.
 
The graphics are low/mid range while the CPU has a lot of slow cores. This is relative to a PC hardware wise. Despite some outrageous claims by developers and AMD/console fans, nobody really knows yet how much the console optimization and lower resource requirements will allow developers to push the graphics. They will be certainly quite a bit better than a PC with similar hardware.

The ps4 seems like it will be better than xbone because it has faster ram. I think if someone only wants to play new games or games not available on PC the new consoles will be very good, certainly for the price. OTOH, the PC is a much more flexible system, allows previous generations of games to be played, and has great prices on Steam sales.
 
It will be lower midrange, but the amount of memory will be a huge upgrade. They had to cram a ton of textures into 256/512MB, plus the systems had to stream from DVD/Blu-ray or HDD. However, if you look at how GTA V turned out, it looks like the devs should be able to stretch these new machines pretty far.
 
At the end of the day, these consoles are going to perform 2-3x as well as the specs suggest, and PC gaming will still reap benefits as devs try to make use of all that RAM. I don't think it really matters or that they should be compared.

But either way, we're looking at a 6870 basically in terms of graphics, but with more memory, so I'd say like somewhat low-mid.
 
i have a question ...i have a 3rd gen i-3 and a gtx660 sc what would be the best stay here are upgrade something....btw i game at 1600×900p
 
ultralo said:
i have a question ...i have a 3rd gen i-3 and a gtx660 sc what would be the best stay here are upgrade something....btw i game at 1600×900p
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We can certainly help you out with that upgrade, but it would be best to create your own thread so that we can keep this one on topic. Please don't forget to put the answers to the questions posed here in your new thread.

mfenn
General Hardware Moderator
 
Both consoles basically have an 8-core version of the AMD Jaguar chip (i.e. what's in budget notebooks like this Lenovo) and a 7850-derived GPU. Their big advantage architecturally is that they have faster RAM (30MB EDRAM buffer for XBONE and all GDDR5 for PS4).

Of course, games will be tuned to the exact hardware much more than they are on the PC and get additional efficiencies that way.
 
I still think AMD would be wise to release the same PS4 APU on a motherboard for PC users... a clever person would be able to write a PS4 loader program to run PS4 games on that same machine. 😀

...although I highly doubt Sony would like that very much. :whiste:
 
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