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Yeah, you are right. It’s totally not a big deal that tablets will soon be able to compete head on with consoles. That totally doesn’t change anything at all ab
by ugh 15y ago
Yeah, you are right. It’s totally not a big deal that tablets will soon be able to compete head on with consoles. That totally doesn’t change anything at all about the future of consoles.
There are new tablets every year. At the very least this might force Sony and Microsoft to move faster.
- aras_p 15y agoWhile I totally agree that the progress of mobile GPUs is amazing and Sony/Microsoft should be scared... this comparison ("we have a GPU that's almost as good in one particular area as PS3") is very much flawed. The GPU in PS3 is probably it's weakest part. Most of games that push the hardware end up using a ton of SPUs to do work that a GPU would normally do. Image postprocessing, deferred lighting, skinning, vertex transformations etc. It will take a while until the mobile chips can host the power of PS3's SPUs! Another big point is memory bandwidth. Even if ARM's new GPU could achieve these vertex transformation rates in theory, I'd bet in practice it wouldn't because of much, _much_ more limited memory bandwidth on a mobile system compared to a console. And bandwidth will not rise fast there, since memory subsystem is one of larger energy consumers.