I am getting tired of people in every thread saying "Sony will have the best specs". "Microsoft will not be as technically impressive". Yet they have no idea what they are talking about, and couldn't explain why. They are just regurgitating things they heard elsewhere on Neogaf.
The only impressive thing about the PS4 is the unified GDDR5. Compared to PC's (even those build a few years ago) The CPU is trash, the GPU is trash.
If Microsoft released a console with a superior CPU and GPU, it would be a more powerful machine hands down. Although GDDR5 has more bandwidth, and is faster than standard ram, it does not make up for the limitations of the CPU and GPU. Which is a big reason why in the UE4 demo shown, during the large castle scene with the demon knight, they had shadows completely turned off (as shown on Reddit). Where as when that demo was shown at E3 running on the PC, they had more realistic lighting and shadows fully enabled.
Moreover, for all anyone knows the entire thing was running on a PC without GDDR5 being used for the basic computing (and only for the GPU). Nobody saw the PS4, and from all accounts it has not been made and the developer unit does not have GDDR5.
The only impressive thing about the PS4 is the unified GDDR5. Compared to PC's (even those build a few years ago) The CPU is trash, the GPU is trash.
If Microsoft released a console with a superior CPU and GPU, it would be a more powerful machine hands down. Although GDDR5 has more bandwidth, and is faster than standard ram, it does not make up for the limitations of the CPU and GPU. Which is a big reason why in the UE4 demo shown, during the large castle scene with the demon knight, they had shadows completely turned off (as shown on Reddit). Where as when that demo was shown at E3 running on the PC, they had more realistic lighting and shadows fully enabled.
Moreover, for all anyone knows the entire thing was running on a PC without GDDR5 being used for the basic computing (and only for the GPU). Nobody saw the PS4, and from all accounts it has not been made and the developer unit does not have GDDR5.