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my view on the 8.4tf.
Sony has not and are not claiming the 4pro is 8.4tf.
he was doing a relatively technical interview with a relatively technical site, and during that he explained about some new aspects of the chip which wasn't in the old one, and parts of amd newer designs, and what it can do.
Which in this regards is 8.4tf @16f.
everyone else picks up on that and reports it, usually out of context.
if you want to claim they knew this would happen, fair enough I guess.
apart from that one technical breakdown, I've never seen them mention anything other than 4.2tf.
Sony has not and are not claiming the 4pro is 8.4tf.
he was doing a relatively technical interview with a relatively technical site, and during that he explained about some new aspects of the chip which wasn't in the old one, and parts of amd newer designs, and what it can do.
Which in this regards is 8.4tf @16f.
everyone else picks up on that and reports it, usually out of context.
if you want to claim they knew this would happen, fair enough I guess.
apart from that one technical breakdown, I've never seen them mention anything other than 4.2tf.
Hopefully that means it should be silent during media playback too.
Can we get a comparison to normal household items?
Examples:
Ostrich Egg
Aston Martin Vantage
Ice cube tray
Pet jaguar
Life size Shaquille O'Neal Fathead
Well, lets assume, AMD build in a 8bit FP with 4x the speed, would the marketing machine not communicate it is 24TF?
The problem here is cerny mentioned the 8.4 TF@16bit and that is as good as the marketing department. Now everyone is thinking... damn, that's a big number. Still problem is, everyone can do this, except MS.
btw, with the uncharted PS4Pro patch and the HDR for normal PS4s, is there any site that makes a review about the HDR-feature on normal PS4s?
That was a technical detail. Cerny specifically said 4.2 TF fp32 in the previous sentence. He made no claims about 8.4 TF in generic case. Technical people understand difference between fp16 and fp32. Developers have wanted double rate fp16 for some time already. Sony is the first to deliver and we developers are happy. Simple as that. They are marketing the hardware for both developers and consumers. This is an important feature for the developers. There was no chance that anybody misunderstood him.
Similarly. AMD gives technical details about their GPUs all the time. For example this article (http://gpuopen.com/amd-gcn-assembly-cross-lane-operations/) tells us that LDS memory bandwidth is 8.6 TB/s. I don't see anybody suddenly claiming that AMD has memory bandwidth of 8.6 TB/s. It is important that hardware manufacturers can openly discuss about their hardware. Sometimes press deliberately quotes things incorrectly to get big headlines. They seem to be desperate to get clicks.
It would be great to have a thread with people's views on newly patched HDR games. It seems that's a far bigger deal than increased resolutions, and there's not much on the interweb in terms of real, techie views.
Agreed, also still very curious on how they pulled it off on the OG.
Not many people with HDR TV's to even test it..
That's why we should group up views from the few that do. I won't for a little while.
Apparently the earlier discussion was indeed wrong, the new article http://www.4gamer.net/games/990/G999024/20161103002/ with Mark Cerny hands on corrected that point (LDCC debuted in PS4 Pro).
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That would be my guess, because it looks as if you can set the PS4's output resolution to 4K in the actual PS4 display settings, which would make the PS4 scale all non-4K content to 4K if the resolution doesn't change when launching non-patched games (which could also be true).
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You mean for a Sony console? Because Xbox Scorpio hits next year and PCs can already do higher quality than both consoles.
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