Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 will "outpower most PCs for years to come" due to having 8GB of system RAM. Yes, of course it will and this pearl of wisdom comes from none other than Linus Blomberg, CTO and co-founder of Avalanche Studios, the company that brought us Just Cause 1 & 2 and Renegade Ops, in an interview with Gaming Bolt. The actual offending line is, "I’m glad Sony decided to go with 8gb RAM because it means that the PS4 will out-power most PC’s for years to come".
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This is a strangely clueless statement coming from someone who should know considerably more than the average person out there and even some PC enthusiasts what really gives a PC its gaming performance: the GPU and to a lesser extent the CPU. From the various recent leaks, it appears that the PS4 will actually use a custom AMD APU - that's integrated graphics people - which is outclassed by lowish end graphics cards already. It has to be, because its graphics core shares resources with the CPU, so doesn't have the budget in terms of transistors, power and heat to deliver a powerful GPU by modern standards. As one well knows, a high end GPU needs a whole graphics card dedicated to it and lots of electrical power with high performance cooling to match. Putting this level of performance into an integrated GPU just isn't feasible in any commercially economic way.
On top of this, 8GB RAM in a PC is hardly cutting edge or unusual today, doesn't cost all that much and will become more and more mainstream as time goes on.
However, at least some of the other things that he said weren't on this level of stupidity.
He appears to have been impressed by the PS4's capabilities at a demo in New York last month and thankfully other comments that he made weren't so lost. He acknowledged that the current generation of consoles have fallen significantly behind the PC in gaming performance, saying "the consoles desperately need a boost since having been overtaken in terms of performance by PC’s several years ago", which is very true. We'll let him off his persistent misuse of the apostrophe - it should be "PCs".
He was impressed by the interactivity that the PS4 will bring gamers from a social and marketplace perspective, saying it's perfect for the types of games that his studio creates.
The full interview is available at Gaming Bolt.
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Linus Blomberg
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This is a strangely clueless statement coming from someone who should know considerably more than the average person out there and even some PC enthusiasts what really gives a PC its gaming performance: the GPU and to a lesser extent the CPU. From the various recent leaks, it appears that the PS4 will actually use a custom AMD APU - that's integrated graphics people - which is outclassed by lowish end graphics cards already. It has to be, because its graphics core shares resources with the CPU, so doesn't have the budget in terms of transistors, power and heat to deliver a powerful GPU by modern standards. As one well knows, a high end GPU needs a whole graphics card dedicated to it and lots of electrical power with high performance cooling to match. Putting this level of performance into an integrated GPU just isn't feasible in any commercially economic way.
On top of this, 8GB RAM in a PC is hardly cutting edge or unusual today, doesn't cost all that much and will become more and more mainstream as time goes on.
However, at least some of the other things that he said weren't on this level of stupidity.
He appears to have been impressed by the PS4's capabilities at a demo in New York last month and thankfully other comments that he made weren't so lost. He acknowledged that the current generation of consoles have fallen significantly behind the PC in gaming performance, saying "the consoles desperately need a boost since having been overtaken in terms of performance by PC’s several years ago", which is very true. We'll let him off his persistent misuse of the apostrophe - it should be "PCs".
He was impressed by the interactivity that the PS4 will bring gamers from a social and marketplace perspective, saying it's perfect for the types of games that his studio creates.
The full interview is available at Gaming Bolt.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Linus Blomberg
