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Honestly why don't they have an easy to understand rating system? Specs do nothing for me, having been out of the PC gaming market for ages since I swapped to M

Honestly why don't they have an easy to understand rating system? Specs do nothing for me, having been out of the PC gaming market for ages since I swapped to Mac. I do have a basic understanding of the CPUs and GPUs but when you combine X with Y and throw in W, what do I have? Give me a solid number so I can compare machines quickly. How much Steam does my SteamMachine have?

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DanBC 11y ago
Because this year's "Steam grade 1" will be next year's "Steam grade three". Even if you include a date - "Steam 2016 grade 1" you're going to need some kind of comparison table to work out if your game ("runs on 'steam 2017 grade 3'") will work on your machine or not.
- tehbeard 11y ago
  Invert your categorization direction. (same as SD cards, Class 10 > Class 8...)
- e12e 11y ago
  Oh, I don't know. They could just take some aggregate standard benchmark, and coerce it down to an integer. Have higher numbers be strictly better. Sure, you might get box makers trying to game it, but it would still be better than "here's some specs, you figure it out". After a recent review of low-end (well, compared to an i7) AMD apus paired with high-end gpus[1], I'm not even sure most "professionals" can get anything meaningful out of specs alone. Sure an i7 with ddr4 is "better" than a dual-core AMD APU -- but if your target is 1080p gaming, it might not be much of a difference -- given the same GPU. So it shouldn't be that hard make the statement "runs on Steambox rated 24 or higher" be true for all generations of steamboxes. Even when that'll have to be changed from 24 to 24000. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9307/the-kaveri-refresh-godavari-review-testing-amds-a10-7870k/7 http://www.anandtech.com/show/9307/the-kaveri-refresh-godava...