What about the rich gamers who can afford a PS4 with a Titan X In It?? Why they don't get love!!

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there's better support of variables such as half-floats. To date, with the AMD architectures, a half-float would take the same internal space as a full 32-bit float. There hasn't been much advantage to using them. With Polaris though, it's possible to place two half-floats side by side in a register, which means if you're willing to mark which variables in a shader program are fine with 16-bits of storage, you can use twice as many. Annotate your shader program, say which variables are 16-bit, then you'll use fewer vector registers

One of the features appearing for the first time is the handling of 16-bit variables - it's possible to perform two 16-bit operations at a time instead of one 32-bit operation," he says, confirming what we learned during our visit to VooFoo Studios to check out Mantis Burn Racing. "In other words, at full floats, we have 4.2 teraflops. With half-floats, it's now double that, which is to say, 8.4 teraflops in 16-bit computation. This has the potential to radically increase performance."

8.4 teraflops

ps4's performance could measure up to 8.4TF

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

very interesting read

i don't think people realize just how smart cerny really is and by adding 1GB of slow DDR3 ram they have given developers exactly what they want(more than 10% extra ram that developers were asking for)

I knew Scorpio zealots were foolish for clinging onto a single digit teraflop figure as if it told the whole story.

Their very, very secret sauce for XB1 has always been a bunch of highly embarrassing and delusional crap that we've had to fend away for years. Meanwhile, traces of secret sauce spill from Sony HQ and it's actually the real deal from the master-level engineer who architected the original PS4.

Now PS4 Pro is confirmed to be capable of 8.4TF of GPU compute due to the genius of Mark Cerny and his smartly re-engineered GPU. Additional 1GB of RAM. Then we also have another one of his innovations in Checkerboard rendering which makes the difference between it and native 4K practically indistinguishable. But that's not even the real story.... Pro comes out 12 months in advance and will be the console to "wow" people with 4K so much so that Scorpio's arrival will be late and far less impactful, especially when you know it's not going to be everything they're promising.

Pro is a more than worthy upgrade for gaming unlike what certain people have been trying to paint since its official reveal event - and it comes at such a reasonable cost, it almost crazy it's the price they're going for.
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@ replies - my god you people missed a trick.

@ Septic - The "secret sauce" - shame that this one actual exists in this reality, and is not just an embarrassing fanboy creation from thin air. Get a grip and read up, Septic.

@ ShowanW - Cerny's innovative algorithm for checkerboard rendering high-resolutions to 4K, and making it look practically indistinguishable from native 4K, is patented. I never said he invented checkerboard, and I'm sick of the Xboys putting words in my mouth. Of course it's not native 4.2TF - they know they have to work within the confines of what resources they've chosen - it's crazy innovative trickery to achieve the same or similar results. Of course, there's no way of you knowing anything else that you claim, but please tell me more.

They fixed the aliasing problem
Cqheckerboard tech a real game changer.

Well, I don't. But from a more abstract perspective, imaging what you finally see on the screen is a flat 2D 1:1 pixel. So, technically, for each pixel in that grid, some math is used to "calculate" this resulting pixel.

Now, in a very simplistic view, this is simple done on a per pixel data and the process to get there is called "projection" (3D data to 2D transformation) and "rasterizing", that is, adding some color to that pixel.

This is how any standard 3D pipeline works. Now, lately we have heard about deferred rendered and such. The "projection" uses 3D coordinates, x, y and z coordinates. Those are simply transformed into 2D space, which is a simple x,y coordinate system. So far so good.

But (!), now we add some z data - e.g. overlapping areas are drawn from back to front. This invention which is very old, is called the Z buffer, and when we actually render that 2D pixel, a Z value is stored letting the "rasterizer" know, which pixel to draw first (basically it can sort pixels in Z direction - this almost costs nothing because the sorting is done when writing into the buffer).

Even more so, we can add motion data, lighting data, all kinds of information - in that 2D pixel in the rasterizer stage. Note! There is no more 3D data available at that point, just various buffers which are far beyond a simple 2D grid.

The (new) ID buffer gives that pixel an idea where it actually came from. And with it one can actually look up geometry which is a great help to detect edges. Edge detection is used to smooth those with advanced anti aliasing. And voila, all of a sudden, the rasterizer has a chance to get an idea of the shape which created this pixel.

This combined with motion data (temporal data) allows the rasterizer to actually predict "gaps" between pixels. So, well, all in all, while the color data (the flat 2D frame buffer) is has only 4MPixel (at 2K), the additional information make this much more information than "just" flat pixels. And it is less data stored than a full res 4K image (at 8MPixels) - but the result can be equivalent. What that means is, you get close to 4K with the clock frequency and bandwith limits the PS4Pro has compared to what would be required to render a plain native 8M pixel plane. Simple as that. :)

All other current SW or HW scalers only use the input data from the 2D buffer of the raw 4MPixel data (well, or less if you consider we render far below 1080p in those cases).

great. don't care.

Or more brains on PlayStation's side beats Microsoft's more bucks?

http://www.aikun.co/upfile/...
You mean the Nintendo Snitch?

Funny enough, upscaling is upscaling, and checkerboard isn't new, but when learning about, reading about, implementing it myself, or hearing it referred to, I've never heard checkerboarding actually being considered upscaling on the technical level among those who understand how to actually implement it. It's just a rendering technique. One of many. And most of those rendering techniques have been around for a decade at least.

LMao at this post 😂😂😂

So then there is no bad in PlayStation Domination.

@masterfox...

this post wreaks of fanboy and pathetic...

nintendo sells a TON of zelda and mario titles on 3ds and also 'attachments for other tablets don't got the budget that ninty has for their hardware... rather you like nintendo games or not, their hardware is TOP NOTCH and works as advertised.

MS doesnt have to show us anything Scorpio related because we said so...
they show it when they are good and ready...

you let mark cerny gas your head up...

get off the kool-aid asap it's rotting your teeth and your brain...

I was hesitant to put these two on. I've personally played more PSO than the RPG version. And shame on me, I don't remember much about Shining Force to talk about it properly.

That said, so many Sega licences deserve their place in this list.

A new Phantasy Star in the numbered series would be amazing. Shining Force too. But I’d settle on some collections as that’s probably the best we will get