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The PC does everything technology is capable of doing, but can be used for games too. I think we should just call the xbone a locked down PC. Actually, let's just call it a mac! *flees*

But memory has an inherent latency when combined with a memory controller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_latency APUs still use a memory controller. I don't see how latency would be reduced (This is not something i've heard of before in the way you're describing it.), since a memory...

Give this person a cookie, for they are right and deserve one. In the end, DDR3 provides more than enough bandwidth for even the most beastly CPUs in the world. So a move to GDDR5 would only introduce higher latency with no benefit, since there'd be no need for the extra bandwidth. APUs...

Well, PCs do use APUs (in the low and upper-lower ranges) and have for a couple of years, so it's not ahead in that sense. The only generation advantage is that it's using Jaguar CPU cores instead of bobcat. Which is the next evolution of AMDs answer to ARM and Intel Atom. It's a good answer for...

Yeah, it's very obvious escapist are being sensationalist with the title, since the architecture for the CPU in the APUs in the xbone and PS4 don't come out on PC for a couple of months. So they are a 'generation ahead', but in the same was a gtx650 Ti was a generation ahead of the gtx580.

Not really, current PCs are quite a lot more powerful (an average upper-mid range PC such as an i5-3570K and a gtx670 are 4x and 2x more powerful than the CPU and GPU of the PS4 respectively). if you compare old PC tech roughly equivalent to consoles (8600GT/C2D @ 2GHz) you'll see framerates...

I pretty much agree with all of this (also there are other factors than heat, but heat is a big one, along with yields if trying to 'attach' a big CPU to a big GPU, since yield rates on high end chips are usually relatively low compared to the lower end). Eventually we will reach the point where...

A 2GHz dual core processor (like a core 2 duo, since that's the kind of thing they're referencing) isn't far off what a 360 can do, and skyrim doesn't use 512MB of vRAM at console settings. Sure, it uses more system RAM, but it can afford to (and a lot of games simply keep many more of the...

The thing people forget when considering the PS4's 8GB of GDDR5 memory is that the GPU can only do so much work anyway. None of the upper mid range PC cards like the HD7970 or GTX670 need to ever go above their provided memory (3GB and 2GB respectively) and when more memory is provided it...

But PCs have had SoCs for a few years now :D In fact, the exact architectures used in the xbox and PS4 SoCs are to appear in netbooks within a couple of months. The xbox and PS4 are just using an AMD APU. Sure, they're APUs that have a vastly different CPU/GPU ratio (normal APUs have a vastly...

It was very obvious he was talking about the best console :P Everyone already knows PCs are better (hell, the PS4sCPU cores are from the ultra mobile space, they're hardly going to worry a mid range PC desktop CPU). PCs cannot possibly be worse than a console because of a myriad of factors. So...

A bias would be not liking a game because of the platform IF the platform is on par with the others. That's not been the case. The Wii U wouldn't have made LCU any better overall, but being able to play it without the tea tray running out of juice would have made it a bit less frustrating i'd...

You may need to look at some of his older PC gaming videos from around the times PC games were on the decline :P Obviously nowadays he doesn't do it because, well, PC is basically the last great hope for gaming in the form of the indie scene, and even yahtzee himself (a self procliamed 'console...

Because people who are Nintendo fans need to tell themselves Yahtzee has a massive bias. Something he himself has brought up many a time. The problem is, Nintendo fans, is that Nintendo's consoles have done very little for core gaming in many years. That's why he, and most 'core' gamers...