Two days ago I did an interview with my good friend Mr. Anonymous (he's a famous video game developer), about the not yet announced PS4! So sit back and enjoy the interview!
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TechnoHobbit: Hello, Mr. Anonymous, good to see you again! You said earlier today that you had a ton of PS4 info (including the specs, the price, and how it looks)?
Mr. Anonymous: Yep, so first of all I guess I'll tell you the specs:
CPU: An custom 8-core 4.25GHz POWER7 CPU with 4 threads per core, a total of 32 threads.
RAM: 128GB's of GDRR5 RAM for Games and 16GB's of GDDR5 RAM for the OS.
GPU: 8 custom AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition GPU's.
HDD: 20TB's
TechnoHobbit: What............? Oh you got the wrong specs right? Like last time when you gave me the specs for Watson instead of the Wii U's?!?!?!?!!!!
Mr. Anonymous: Nope that's the PS4 specs.
TechnoHobbit: AAAAAAAAAAaaahHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! The fanboys are right!!!! The Wii U will be last gen! In fact the Xbox 720 will be last GEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Anonymous: Good to see that you have seen the power! And that just the basics, here's more details:
The CPU has a theoretical performance of 326.45 GFLOPS, just so everyone knows the PS3's CPU has a theoretical performance of 214GFLOPS, while the Xbox 360 CPU has a theoretical peak performance of 115 GFLOPS, and the Wii U has a theoretical peak performance of 223 GFLOPS (< leaked info)
Mr. Anonymous: It's Sony. Here's the specs of the GPU's
As you see customization made the specs are a bit better than the most powerful GPU on the market! To put this difference in to perspective lets look at the 3DMark Vantage scores (bigger is better):
TechnoHobbit: So how many times more powerful is the PS4 compared to the Wii U?
Mr. Anonymous: If you use my very complex mathematical formula....... The PS4 is approximately 70x more powerful than the Wii U in terms of raw power, so that's like 70 Wii U tied together!
TechnoHobbit: There is no way these specs could be true, do you realize how much power this thing would use!?!? And how much it would cost Sony?
Mr. Anonymous: This is Sony where talking about dude, not Nintendo. Sony cares about using the latest and greatest technology, and they aren't afraid to sale the PS4 at a lost.
TechnoHobbit: I still don't believe it. For one why does it need 128GB of RAM? The Blu-ray disc can only hold 128 GB max, so unless they want no loading times what so ever, what's the point?
Mr. Anonymous: Oh it doesn't use Blu-ray, like every PlayStation before it, it is using a new format of disc, this time it's uses HVD, these disc can hold up to 6TB!
TechnoHobbit: And how in the world could they use all this space? And GPU/CPU power?
Mr. Anonymous: One word to answer both qstons: 4K. Or if you want a more complex answer: the PS4 can run graphically intensive UE4 games at native 3D4K 120FPS, while streaming 3D1080p+ to this!
Behold the PS4 Controller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TechnoHobbit: AGHHHHHH!!! That looks unconformable..
Mr. Anonymous: Yep, so first of all I guess I'll tell you the specs:
CPU: An custom 8-core 4.25GHz POWER7 CPU with 4 threads per core, a total of 32 threads.
RAM: 128GB's of GDRR5 RAM for Games and 16GB's of GDDR5 RAM for the OS.
GPU: 8 custom AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition GPU's.
HDD: 20TB's
TechnoHobbit: What............? Oh you got the wrong specs right? Like last time when you gave me the specs for Watson instead of the Wii U's?!?!?!?!!!!
Mr. Anonymous: Nope that's the PS4 specs.
TechnoHobbit: AAAAAAAAAAaaahHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! The fanboys are right!!!! The Wii U will be last gen! In fact the Xbox 720 will be last GEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Anonymous: Good to see that you have seen the power! And that just the basics, here's more details:
The CPU has a theoretical performance of 326.45 GFLOPS, just so everyone knows the PS3's CPU has a theoretical performance of 214GFLOPS, while the Xbox 360 CPU has a theoretical peak performance of 115 GFLOPS, and the Wii U has a theoretical peak performance of 223 GFLOPS (< leaked info)
Mr. Anonymous: It's Sony. Here's the specs of the GPU's
Feature
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Radeon 7970 GHz Edition
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PS4 GPU (remember there are 8 of these)
|
Graphics Cores
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2048
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2156
|
Texture Units
|
128
|
130
|
ROPs
|
32
|
35
|
Clock Frequency
|
1006 MHz
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1035 MHz
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Transistor Count
|
4.3 billion
|
4.38 billion
|
As you see customization made the specs are a bit better than the most powerful GPU on the market! To put this difference in to perspective lets look at the 3DMark Vantage scores (bigger is better):
| Radeon 7970 GHz Edition |
Wii U GPU
|
PS4 GPU (remember there are 8 of these)
|
34,216
|
7012
|
35,013 Or if you count all 8 of them working together: 280,104
|
TechnoHobbit: So how many times more powerful is the PS4 compared to the Wii U?
Mr. Anonymous: If you use my very complex mathematical formula....... The PS4 is approximately 70x more powerful than the Wii U in terms of raw power, so that's like 70 Wii U tied together!
TechnoHobbit: There is no way these specs could be true, do you realize how much power this thing would use!?!? And how much it would cost Sony?
Mr. Anonymous: This is Sony where talking about dude, not Nintendo. Sony cares about using the latest and greatest technology, and they aren't afraid to sale the PS4 at a lost.
TechnoHobbit: I still don't believe it. For one why does it need 128GB of RAM? The Blu-ray disc can only hold 128 GB max, so unless they want no loading times what so ever, what's the point?
Mr. Anonymous: Oh it doesn't use Blu-ray, like every PlayStation before it, it is using a new format of disc, this time it's uses HVD, these disc can hold up to 6TB!
TechnoHobbit: And how in the world could they use all this space? And GPU/CPU power?
Mr. Anonymous: One word to answer both qstons: 4K. Or if you want a more complex answer: the PS4 can run graphically intensive UE4 games at native 3D4K 120FPS, while streaming 3D1080p+ to this!
Behold the PS4 Controller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TechnoHobbit: AGHHHHHH!!! That looks unconformable..
Mr. Anonymous: Well it's not, way better then the Wii U GamePad........ and the GamePad is conformable!!! Some details of the controller:
TechnoHobbit: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Once again I must say all this is technically impossible, this thing (the PS4) must use 6000 Watts!!!!! And cost $5000!
Mr. Anonymous: Nope it uses 2000 Watts max, and Sony is aiming for a $1999 piece, and a late 2013 lunch!
TechnoHobbit: Well the console must be huge in order to hold all this tech!
Mr. Anonymous:
Yes, it is huge, about the size of a mini refrigerator. Here is a pic of the prototype:
- Weighs 380 Grams
- The screen is 6 inchs.
- Has Multi-touch
- The screen has a rez over 1080p, but since the screen doesn't have an aspect ratio of 16:9, I like to call it 1080p+
- The screen is 3D like the 3DS's
TechnoHobbit: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Once again I must say all this is technically impossible, this thing (the PS4) must use 6000 Watts!!!!! And cost $5000!
Mr. Anonymous: Nope it uses 2000 Watts max, and Sony is aiming for a $1999 piece, and a late 2013 lunch!
TechnoHobbit: Well the console must be huge in order to hold all this tech!
Mr. Anonymous:
Yes, it is huge, about the size of a mini refrigerator. Here is a pic of the prototype:
TechnoHobbit: AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Anonymous: Bye, now I've got to go and hide from Sony!
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