PS4 specs are in the neighbourhood of a low-end CPU, says Nvidia

When Sony announced the PlayStation 4, it had revealed that the next-gen console will be powered by AMD’s chips. According to TechRadar, Tony Tamasi, Senior Vice President – Content and Technology, Nvidia, compared the PlayStation 4 to a low-end CPU."Compared to gaming PCs, the PS4 specs are in the neighborhood of a low-end CPU, and a low- to mid-range GPU side," said Tony Tamasi to TechRadar. "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."It doesn't help that consoles, by design, are meant to not be upgraded to the latest and greatest hardware. This prevents them from ever bridging the gap between them and PCs. "What you get today in terms of performance is what you're stuck with five - 10 years down the road. PCs don't have these problems," said Tamasi. "They are open and can be upgraded at any time to harness the power of newer GPUs for more performance and to take advantage of newer, modern graphics technologies."

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