Xbox Scorpio will be most powerfull console sporting 6 teraflop GPU

[Makabb]

Xbox Scorpio's power advantage over PS4 Pro 'will be obvious'

This means Scorpio — which Microsoft has said will feature a GPU clocked at 6 teraflops — will be approximately 43 percent more powerful on paper than Sony's system. "The performance delta will be obvious,

http://www.polygon.com/2016/9/7/12841596/microsoft-xbox-scorpio-playstation-4-ps4-pro-more-powerful



6 teraflop is gtx 980 Ti and 1070 level.

Interesting times.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Hard to keep up with Microsoft and all their flops.

 

[GrainWetski]

And the Xbox One will play games at 1080p/60 FPS!

 

[Black]

All modern consoles were giant flops anyway.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Too bad all that processing power will be used to power crap games and spy on the user.

 

[Severian Silk]

Too bad all that processing power will be used to power crap games and spy on the user.

I disagree. Microsoft's highest priorities are quality and integrity.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Yeah, the quality and integrity of their pockets.

A console with equivalent power to a mid/high range PC without any increase in price? One of three things here:

1) They managed to brake the laws of physics and developed a revolutionary GPU capable of crunching huge numbers that's very cheap to produce.

2) Microsoft is willing to cut profits in order to bury the PS4 and take control of the market.

3) They are lying through their teeth and this Scorpio shit will just be another peasant device that won't even remotely approach the power of a good PC.

Of course, it is going to be number three. Number two would be sort of interesting but Microsoft is neither that clever nor ballsy enough to pull such a stunt.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Microsoft did hint Scorpio won't be a cheap console. Neither are they interested to bury Playstation. I think they just make another one to keep the brand alive and their development community busy. In profits terms, Xbox has been peanuts and MS is okay with that.

 

[Excidium II]

Too bad all that power will be wasted with the 4K meme.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

I wonder if they will keep concept of no-exclusive gaems console as it is with Xbone now.

 

[Excidium II]

I wonder if they will keep concept of no-exclusive gaems console as it is with Xbone now.

Probably. Putting more people on Win 10 is their priority.

 

[sullynathan]

Yeah, the quality and integrity of their pockets.

A console with equivalent power to a mid/high range PC without any increase in price? One of three things here:

1) They managed to brake the laws of physics and developed a revolutionary GPU capable of crunching huge numbers that's very cheap to produce.

2) Microsoft is willing to cut profits in order to bury the PS4 and take control of the market.

3) They are lying through their teeth and this Scorpio shit will just be another peasant device that won't even remotely approach the power of a good PC.

Of course, it is going to be number three. Number two would be sort of interesting but Microsoft is neither that clever or ballsy enough to pull such a stunt.

At this point MS can't bury Sony. They're too far behind in Sales and Scorpio won't be coming till another year while PS4 Pro is coming this year. Sony will have another lead in sales, plus MS will go for parity and the 4K stuff.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Microsoft should just give up on the Xbox and focus on the one gaming platform they dominate completely: the PC.

Ho wait, this isn't fantasy land but harsh, cold reality. My bad.

 

[Rahdulan]

Microsoft did hint Scorpio won't be a cheap console. Neither are they interested to bury Playstation. I think they just make another one to keep the brand alive and their development community busy. In profits terms, Xbox has been peanuts and MS is okay with that.

I actually really want to see how they'll price Scorpio now because Sony kinda has them by the balls. We'll see what value they'll attach to their supposedly superior dev-

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Right.

 

[Night Goat]

Yeah, the quality and integrity of their pockets.

A console with equivalent power to a mid/high range PC without any increase in price? One of three things here:

1) They managed to brake the laws of physics and developed a revolutionary GPU capable of crunching huge numbers that's very cheap to produce.

2) Microsoft is willing to cut profits in order to bury the PS4 and take control of the market.

3) They are lying through their teeth and this Scorpio shit will just be another peasant device that won't even remotely approach the power of a good PC.

Of course, it is going to be number three. Number two would be sort of interesting but Microsoft is neither that clever nor ballsy enough to pull such a stunt.

4) The console really will spy on people, and the NSA is putting money into it to offset the cost.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Eh, by the time this comes out, 980 TI will be a 3 year old tech. Scorpio is likely going to use AMD's Zen CPUs and some variation of AMD Vega GPU, which aren't even on the market yet. So it's definitely plausible Scorpio can pack 6 Teraflops, after all new consoles are just small-factor PCs, if you can do it on PC you can do it on a console. The only question is a price point, I can't imagine Scorpio going for less then 600$.

 

[The Decline]

Too bad there isn't anything exclusive that's worth playing.

 

[taxalot]

It will be too of the lines for three months !

 

[Alienman]

Shame it will only get used for graphics. The most pointless thing...

 

[shihonage]

All these teraflop comparisons strike me as flawed. PCs have much more gunk between the software/OS and the graphics card, while consoles usually allow for much more effectiveness and optimization.

From what I've seen, the PS4 as-is has pretty good modern-era graphics, regardless of how allegedly "weak" it is compared to a PC.

 

[Makabb]

All these teraflop comparisons strike me as flawed. PCs have much more gunk between the software/OS and the graphics card, while consoles usually allow for much more effectiveness and optimization.

From what I've seen, the PS4 as-is has pretty good modern-era graphics, regardless of how allegedly "weak" it is compared to a PC.

So imagine what the scorpio will produce if it is on level with current PC high end graphics card

 

[Lyric Suite]

All these teraflop comparisons strike me as flawed. PCs have much more gunk between the software/OS and the graphics card, while consoles usually allow for much more effectiveness and optimization..

In theory.

In practice console games are "optimized" in the sense they have low resolution textures (hidden behind a shitton of bloom), shortened drawing distance and the like. Optimization can't overcome what the hardware simply cannot do.

 

[Makabb]

All these teraflop comparisons strike me as flawed. PCs have much more gunk between the software/OS and the graphics card, while consoles usually allow for much more effectiveness and optimization..

In theory.

In practice console games are "optimized" in the sense they have low resolution textures (hidden behind a shitton of bloom), shortened drawing distance and the like. Optimization can't overcome what the hardware simply cannot do.

It's also easier for developers to make a console title, because all over the world console have same one hardware combination, pc can have hundreds of combinations.

 

[Severian Silk]

It's also easier for developers to make a console title, because all over the world console have same one hardware combination, pc can have hundreds of combinations.

Nobody knew this. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

[Astral Rag]

It's also easier for developers to make a console title, because all over the world console have same one hardware combination, pc can have hundreds of combinations.

That's just an excuse incompetent devs like to throw around. It's not 1995 anymore.