Dark Meadow shows how far gaming has come on mobile devices

3. kshell1 posted on 26 Apr 2012, 13:58 3

They are getting there though, years ago we couldn't even imagine playing grand theft auto 3 on our phones, especially in 720p

6. remixfa posted on 26 Apr 2012, 14:16 3

chips are not up to console level yet. that's coming with the exynos 5250, t4, omap5, and krait pro... so like late 2012 and they will officially break the 360\ps3 polygon pushing barrier.. that is nothing short of impressive

consoles are about 6 years behind PC's at this point especially seeing what the new nvidia geforce 6xx is throwing.

regardless of what people think about the t3 vs the krait there are some things that 4 cores can do better than 2.

11. bolaG posted on 26 Apr 2012, 14:58 1

How are consoles 6 years behind PCs? IMHO TVs are 6 years behind chips.

Once UDTV become the norm things will be equal.

13. remixfa posted on 26 Apr 2012, 15:23 0

research what is in an Xbox compared to what is in the current gforce 6xx chips aand how many chip generations PC cards have gone through since then. there is your answer

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18. bolaG posted on 26 Apr 2012, 17:13 0

I get that PCs graphics cards are newer and all, but consoles handle all graphics coming out right now with out any problems (lag, fragmentation, etc). I dont see a 6 year diffrence from graphics on a PC compared to graphics on an XBOX360 what so ever.

What I do see is that 1080p resolution is starting to lag behind what the new graphics cards output are capable of. Once UDTVs (a.k.a. 4k2k TVs a.k.a 3840 x 2160 resolution TVs) can be mass produced then we'll see the chips true capabilities

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14. kshell1 posted on 26 Apr 2012, 15:24 2

Consoles are 6 years behind PC's because none of them have been updated since 2006, with the wii in all technicality hardware wise being ages old.

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17. ph00ny posted on 26 Apr 2012, 17:00 0

Because consoles aren't following the 6month product cycle

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19. cepcamba posted on 26 Apr 2012, 18:01 0

Currently, PCs are still steps ahead of consoles. Though that is soon to change, probably in the next 5-10 years.

PCs had a long steady improvement since it's conception. But now consoles improvement are being fueled by money from eager consumers and thus increasing the improvement rate exponentially.

People were divided when the first 1GHZ phone came out and thought there'd be no use for such power on a mobile phone. However people found ways to use it and now people can actually do productive tasks on their mobiles that they use to do on their PCs (word, powerpoint, excel, etc). Though the mobile world still needs to catch up to the PC standards we sure are going there.

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20. kshell1 posted on 26 Apr 2012, 18:07 0

Exactly, over the last couple years we went from the OG snapdragon at 1ghz 65nm to now 32nm HKMG quad cores lol

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21. cepcamba posted on 26 Apr 2012, 18:30 0

And as we can see 20nm is on the horizon already.

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22. kshell1 posted on 26 Apr 2012, 18:38 0

The way tech is evolving is just insane, Its only a matter of time to where we have to find out new ways to make the die even smaller once we reach 8-9nm

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23. cepcamba posted on 26 Apr 2012, 20:29 0

Once we reach that theoretical limit the next goal will be to search/create a longer lasting material. yeah, technology is crazily insane. :p In the future, you'll literally be able to control everything with a device the size of the palm of your hand (possibly even smaller).

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8. remixfa posted on 26 Apr 2012, 14:21 1

it doesnt matter. the cell processor has a huge bottleneck with its memory pipeline which is why many Xbox games look better in the end. they both have advantages over the other but the 360 wins IMHO. I have them both. if you want to play games,integrate your PC to it, and be online u can't beat the 360. if you want theater media like bluray and DVD upconverting, and optical outputs with a side of gaming... the ps3 is better.

10. PackMan posted on 26 Apr 2012, 14:42 0

OK you're right about the XBOX360 GPU being more powerful but cell processor has many advantages over XENON. Still it is nowhere near PC level even though consoles are heavily optimized.
About mobiles devices we will see what happens when Mali t658, POWERVR 6 series and Nvidia kepler for mobile phones come out.

15. jcoberg10 posted on 26 Apr 2012, 15:25 1

well i guess it helps if you read Nvidia only! damn it