What is your GPU, and is it better than the PS4's [Weaste decides]

All this about pc gamers not having massively better machines than the ps4 is forgetting an important thing.

There hasn't been reason to upgrade. Plus Weaste's 'judgement' in here on what is and isn't better is heavily biased and based off using that shared memory which is a fudge.

It's a competent chipset in the PS4, but nothing amazing.
 
Have a Titan and just received a Quadro K6000 12gb.
 
WeasteDevil said:
You have the best seat in the ballpark.

You nutter!
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Use it for film VFX and post work like compositing and colour grading. With everyone in the industry wanting to shoot 4k ( why I don't know) we need all the power we can. There will be no game playing on it.
 
I have a 660 but Weaste has decided I'm not even allowed to know my relative proximity to the ballpark.
 
Bebe said:
I have a 660 but Weaste has decided I'm not even allowed to know my relative proximity to the ballpark.
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I posted a graphic to give a PC based idea.

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PS4 is the one with 55fps. More or less.
 
Ciderman90210 said:
Nah, that one would manage 1200p easy. The PS4 can only achieve 900p on Battlefield 4.
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I know Cider what the base arcitecture the PS4 and XBone GPUs are focused on. The 7870 is 1GHz however, PS4 GPU is 800MHz which makes it closer to the 7970M. If we take into consideration the unified GDDR5 RAM and the closed box and thin OS and API it is basically a 7870 and a bit more.

Do you want to know where the XBone is on that chart?

Shhhh, it's at the bottom!
 
Slightly off topic but since we are looking at BF4 benchmarks, AMD are releasing mantle in December and its compatible with BF4, those AMD should see a decent boost in performance after launch.

Ordered myself the Asus R9 280 to upgrade from my 7950, everything about AMD at the moment seems first class from the price points to performance I think you'd be mad to buy anything Nvidia at this current time.
 
ATI HD 5990. Its a few years old now but it was top of the range when I bought it. Dual gpu. It wouldn't stack up to a PS4 though.
 
Haha yeah I guess it did but for the first time in probably ever I just feel AMD are on the up. I was cautious about buying a AMD card last year but the 7950 has been a great piece of hardware and while Nvidia are updating their software for 1 click streaming via Twitch AMD are actually looking at improving performance with the likes of Mantle.
 
Whilst that graphic is a useful indicator it would make more sense with the spec of the test machine.
A friend of mine has an identical spec pc in all but the graphics card. He opted for the 660ti whilst I went for the 7870, as I got it almost £50 cheaper (echoing Castia's comment).
That graphic would suggest the 7870 is a 12 fps better card than the 660ti, yet our cards were only 2-5 fps different across a range of games, not always in favour of my 7870.
You will only get the performance indicated by that chart with an identical spec pc, playing BF4, at the same settings.

Having said all that, I'm in full agreement with Castia that AMD gfx cards are the way to go, for all round results.
 
When I got my PC in the summer I'd originally opted for the AMD HD 7850. However upon arrival it turned out to be faulty. I returned it to the company I got the PC from, and as a result of the extra shipping charge I incurred they offered me the 660 for no extra charge.

*Though now I look at Weaste's chart, it actually has the 7850 above the 660 :lol:
 
Bebe said:
When I got my PC in the summer I'd originally opted for the AMD HD 7850. However upon arrival it turned out to be faulty. I returned it to the company I got the PC from, and as a result of the extra shipping charge I incurred they offered me the 660 for no extra charge.

*Though now I look at Weaste's chart, it actually has the 7850 above the 660 :lol:
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I also bought the GTX660 instead the 7850... being a AMD user for long time (...3850, 4850, 4870, 4870x2) was a drastic change but i cant complain.

They were at the same price so no second guessing. Better than the 7850 in most of the games, consume less power, physx... had to go with the green side this time.
 
ElmParkRed said:
Whilst that graphic is a useful indicator it would make more sense with the spec of the test machine.
A friend of mine has an identical spec pc in all but the graphics card. He opted for the 660ti whilst I went for the 7870, as I got it almost £50 cheaper (echoing Castia's comment).
That graphic would suggest the 7870 is a 12 fps better card than the 660ti, yet our cards were only 2-5 fps different across a range of games, not always in favour of my 7870.
You will only get the performance indicated by that chart with an identical spec pc, playing BF4, at the same settings.
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Can depend on the game and what it's doing, so for one game one card can beat the other and vice-versa. What RAM does each GPU use, what clock, how much, what is the width of the bus? Could a game be more CPU bound as an example, how much system RAM does the CPU have, how fast is it, what is the CPU, etc.? What is the OS doing in the background? This is generally why a lower performance GPU in a closed box like a console will outpuch its equivalent and higher rated GPUs in a PC environment.
 
3DFX Voodoo 2, the 12MB version not the 8MB. Runs Jedi Knight Dark Forces at 20 FPS, probably the best card I've ever owned.
 
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