Nvidia says Sony's PS4 comparible only to "Low-end" PC

After the recent Nvidia and Sony hullabaloo over the PS4 hardware deal, Nvidia's Tony Tamasi compared the new PS4 to be only as good as any "Low-end" PC.

"Compared to gaming PCs, the PS4 specs are in the neighborhood of a low-end CPU, and a low- to mid-range GPU side," Tony Tamasi said to Tech Radar. Tamasi is obviously not impressed with the new PS4 specifications. Nvidia provided the GPU for the PS3, and recently walked out of Sony's PS4 hardware negotiations mainly due to pricing issues.

"If the PS4 ships in December as Sony indicated, it will only offer about half the performance of a GTX680 GPU (based on GFLOPS and texture), which launched in March 2012, more than a year and a half ago." Tamasi added.

Tamasi also says that cutting ties with Sony will allow Nvidia to focus on other stuff, such as delivering high-end graphics card for PCs, supplying the graphics chips for Apple computers, their latest Tegra 4 mobile processing chipset, and working on its own dedicated gaming device, the Project Shield.

Sony announced that PS4 specs will include an 8-core x86-64 AMD processor and custom GPU roughly equivalent Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition graphics card. However, one big muscle the new PS4 will carry is the 8GB of unified GDDR5 memory, which some believe gives the console an edge over PCs.

Source: Tech Radar