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[knghts50]

I just watched the press release in shock and awe minus some of the games. But this device is Amazing. I For one am preordering it when it becomes available in the near future or after E3. Blizzard and Bungie on playstation platform WTF!!??!! The DUalSHock4 awesome!! Tell US(droidrzr.com) what You think!! But Here are some of the Specs that i got off of techradar.com:


PS4: Hardware specs

What we do know is that the PS4 is definitely powered by an AMD APU - most probably a Jaguar core. That means the CPU sits on the same die as a GPU element, and so-say offers 2 teraflops of compute power.
If this is indeed the chip we're talking about, the PS4's CPU packs eight cores (yay) but is clocked at a measly 1.6GHz (boooo). The main benefit of a setup like this is that the console will be very power efficient, meaning less draw and quieter operation, i.e. no need for any mahoosive, loud and invasive cooling fans.
The drawback of this CPU - and it's a real biggie - is that it is, frankly, an incredibly mediocre chip in this modern age. It's third-tier tech even by AMD's standards, and thus is absolutely no match for even budget Intel processors. The current batch of eight core Intel Xeon processors are simply in a different universe.
To put this performance gap into perspective, the current AMD Bobcat cores - which is the tech the Jaguar platform is based on - are roughly 1,400 per cent slower than Intel's £250 3770K Ivy Bridge Core i7 chip. Yeah, we know.
Graphics power
However, this AMD APU sits alongside what Sony described as a "highly enhanced PC GPU". From that we can extrapolate that it's likely to be the as-rumoured AMD 7850-grade graphics chip. This is a far more up to date component and promises to offer graphics far in advance of anything we've seen on the

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The GPU packs 18 GCN units - that may sound a like a lot of techy mumbo jumbo but what it essentially means is that the GPU packs 18 processing clusters, each packing up to 64 cores. That provides a lot of parallel processing power, and will thus handle the majority of the PS4's grunt work.
Sony announced at the NYC event that the console will use GPU compute features to take advantage of this components raw power - it'll be used for general computation tasks as well as building graphics.
Memory
The PS4 will ship packing 8GB of GDDR5 memory. That's some super-fast stuff right there and should enable lightning fast performance.
Indeed, Sony has revealed that you will be able to power down the PS4 mid-game and then switch it on again in seconds and pick up right where you left off. That's the sort of loading power that this memory enables.
If you want to know how these specs stack up against what we know so far about the

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[Memnoch73]

Good god it looks awesome. Super excited for it. It should finally bring consoles up to the PC gaming level. If the graphics look this good at launch I can't imagine how awesome they will be a few years down the road.

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[Maxxaholic]

I just wish they would allow cross console online gaming. In other words I could play live with someone who had a PlayStation even though I'd be on Xbox.

[tucstwo]

Did I also read that the OS is gonna run x86? What The hell kinda system being released in nearly 2014 is not 64 bit?

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[knghts50]

yes x86...cross gaming platforms would be awesome. x86 makes it available so us developers can develop gaming and apps! plus 4 different processors. 1- gpu 1-cpu 1-social network 1-for background data upload/download

[jto101680]

How much? They always jack the price up so high at the start of a systems life. I'm guessing $700-1000$$$.

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[johnlgalt]

I don't think that PS has ever had a initial jacked up price. I think that is M$ and Nintendo.

That cell processor in the PS3, BTW, is a friggin beast- with some Yellow Dog Linux an astrophysicist was able to make his own HPC using just 8 PS3s - a ton cheaper than investing in some serious server hardware. I truly believe that Sony lost money on ever PS3 they sold.

[johnlgalt]

BTW, I posted this in the moot thread, but it really belongs here.

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Hopefully someone will build a PS3 emulator as well.

[knghts50]

I don't think that PS has ever had a initial jacked up price. I think that is M$ and Nintendo.

That cell processor in the PS3, BTW, is a friggin beast- with some Yellow Dog Linux an astrophysicist was able to make his own HPC using just 8 PS3s - a ton cheaper than investing in some serious server hardware. I truly believe that Sony lost money on ever PS3 they sold.

True they still loose money. but they arent worried about it they make money on games and additional accessories it cost them $5 w/packaging to make a controler.. they loose between $75 and $100 on ps3 systems dependent on the model..the first release they barely broke even. but rumors are saying between 4-500 on this one.

[jto101680]

Sweetness! I hope you guys are right. I'll preorder for sure at that price.

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