thank you all so much for your comments.. all this talk is really helping quite a lot, keep the discussion going lol... I find it so interesting what peoples views on when it comes to the next gen stuff, the unified memory could be a good thing, unified memory is usually a shit solution because things like laptops for example, never had enough memory to power the GPU AND the rest of the system, thats why its generally thought its "much" better to have seperate dedicated memory for the GPU, and the system itself, but with the PS4, they are doing something quite different, their memory is GDDR5 memory... its BLAZINGLY much faster then regular RAM in a PC today... We've actually been stuck on DDR3 memory for what, 4 years now? if not longer, thats quite a life span for memory really, didn't even take half that to go from DDR2 to DDR3. obviously GPU memory is far faster then system memory, which is one of the reasons why GPUs really are so much more powerfull then CPUs now, their leapfrogging over them in terms of how many calculatiosn a second a GPU can muster over a CPU. For PCs though, faster ram is really not that important, definitely hardly notable in regular work loads unless you are using an SSD anyway, the harddrive cant keep up with it otherwise.. PS4 has a 2nd chip inside of it, which is probably one of the most important things as to why its going to be so good, 1 CPU to run the games, and a 2nd one to run everything else in the background, little is known about this except that we all know its an AMD Jaguar chip, whatever that is... and it has 8 cores... I'm wondering if the PS4 is going to be powering 2 of these chips, for a combined 16 cores, which will much a HUGE difference...
I remember Epic games Mark Rein talking about how the next gen consoles will have to spec up to PC levels if they had any chance in running Unreal engine 4, and durring the same discussion talking about what he was calling "Massive Multicore" technology is the future, and if song really do have dual 8-core chips inside it, then Mark Rein was definitely right in terms of the tech and where we are heading...
Onto the my main topic at hand though, yep always falling behind, can never really stay at the top or high end unless i'm upgrading ever year which obviously I cannot do haha!! oh boy would I loved to be able to do that though :D dual 660 tis seems to be for me, pretty confident its going to do all i need it to do, and for the benchmarks of the titan vs the 2 660 ti,s there are other benchmarks out there that give pretty much the same as the ones I linked, would never just go by 1 single bench performance test, impossible to get the average of what you can expect from a card that way. I think its what im going to go with but nothing set in stone untill i order all my parts... hopefully the 660s wil lhold me over for at least a few years.. at least 2 anyway...
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