TheGreyHulk
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Next gen better be a quantum leap. The capabilities of todays GPUs obliterate what the PS360 can handle. It's been 7-8 years technology wise. A lot has changed. The GPU's in the PS360 only have a theoretical 200-240 GFLOPS (billions of floating point calculations per second) in them. The top chip available right now, the HD 7970 ghz edition, has a theoretical 4,300 GFLOPS.....thats 18x more computational power people.
even a radeon 4800 from mid 2008 has 1200 GFLOPS, that's 5x more computational power and that was released a mere 19 months after the PS3.
GPU technology has been moving at a blistering rate. Today's best midrange GPU, 7870 pumps out 2560 GFLOPS and the GTX 660 Ti pumps out 2460 GFLOPS.
It's quite easy to see the PS4/720 being a LOT better than the current generation even if they use midrange parts because the tech in the ps360 is based on 2004-05 level technology. Even the Wii U will be significantly more capable than the PS360, but it's being used as a straight up port machine right now, so we won't see games take advantage of it until the PS4/720 are released and the Wii U will get the proper games to utilize it's advanced hardware. It won't be PS4/720 level, but it will easily best what can be done on today's hardware.
even a radeon 4800 from mid 2008 has 1200 GFLOPS, that's 5x more computational power and that was released a mere 19 months after the PS3.
GPU technology has been moving at a blistering rate. Today's best midrange GPU, 7870 pumps out 2560 GFLOPS and the GTX 660 Ti pumps out 2460 GFLOPS.
It's quite easy to see the PS4/720 being a LOT better than the current generation even if they use midrange parts because the tech in the ps360 is based on 2004-05 level technology. Even the Wii U will be significantly more capable than the PS360, but it's being used as a straight up port machine right now, so we won't see games take advantage of it until the PS4/720 are released and the Wii U will get the proper games to utilize it's advanced hardware. It won't be PS4/720 level, but it will easily best what can be done on today's hardware.