climbsyke said:
TheComfyChair said:
$400 is pretty standard, whatever people may say. However, the tech seems like it'll be still trailing the PC significantly, and this looks like a 'high end' console this time. Ah well, means the PC wont suffer from console ports like this generation did.
For a comparison, the r700 GPU is the hd4 series, the hd7 series will be out before this console is, so PC's will be about 4-5 times faster at release.
Potentially faster, but PC is always going to be held back by developers having to cater for lower spec machines that are out there.
Console games can be optomised for the hardware, so the realistic difference between a brand new console and the PC's isn't actually that wide on release.
The optimisation across PC hardware is a lot better nowadays though as the basic architecture between AMD and Nvidia is a lot closer than it used to be. Which is why a game like portal 2 runs at 240fps on my PC at 1920x1080 compared to the xbox running it at 30fps at 1280x720. Even terrible ports like black ops runs at around 120fps or so at 1920x1080 maxed compared to 40-60fps on consoles at the meagre 1024x600 at the equivalent of low.
The performance difference between consoles and PC's is definitely there right now, even despite the 'optimisation' of consoles. If PC hardware is twice as powerful is can effectively expect to pull in about 80-90% better performance in a game than a console.
The main illusion of consoles performing significantly better with the same hardware comes from just how castrated console versions of games are. Bad company 2, for example, uses settings lower than the very lowest option available on PC and at a resolution most PC users will never ever use (1280x720 is abysmal nowadays too).
