Re:The iPhone 5s Review
by glhaynes on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @11:17PM
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Supposing A-series chip performance continues to improve at the rate it has been, how long until an Apple TV with the then-current high-end A chip puts games on a TV of the same quality as current-gen video game systems? What about next-gen?
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While it's far from a complete measure of performance, one data point is that the PS4 GPU is capable of 1.84 tflops, the 5s GPU is capable of 76.8 gflops, only ~4.2% the throughput of the PS4.
Re:The iPhone 5s Review
by Alphasite_ on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @11:50PM
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Well yes, but the thermals are less of a battery when you don't have to worry about battery condition or battery usage.
xbox360's Xenos GPU has 240 gflops. Maybe iPad 5 will reach this, by x4 the iPad 4's 76.8 gflops. The series 6 rogue GPU has a lot of headroom.
Re:The iPhone 5s Review
by flakmonkey on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @12:12AM
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The GPU in the PS4 is, essentially, an Nvidia 7900-class GPU. Anandtech recently did a comparison of old PC GPUs to current SOCs and the results are surprisingly close. I'd imagine Snapdragon 800 and Oscar close the gap considerably. http://anandtech.com/show/6877/the-great-equalizer-part-3/3
edit: I'm stuck in past. This comment is about PS3 not PS4.
Re:The iPhone 5s Review
by Impossible on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @12:19AM
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The PS4 GPU is significantly more powerful (orders of magnitude) than an Nvidia 7900 class GPU, unless you meant PS3 or Radeon 7900 series :).
Re:The iPhone 5s Review
by flakmonkey on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @12:39AM
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Thanks for the correction.
Re:The iPhone 5s Review
by glasshead969 on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @12:14AM
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Minor correction: A7 SOC is cyclone not oscar. The article was updated. IMO cyclone is a apt name given benchmarks. oscar is name for M7.