XtremeAero426 :
Pinhedd :
XtremeAero426 :
Pinhedd :
XBox One: somewhere between a 7770 and 7790
PS4: somewhere between a 7850 and 7870
Neither one is particularly impressive
Um, for PS4, you said a 7870 but this website says a 7870 is more powerful than a GTX 760. Does that mean that PS4 players are getting better graphics than me and paying less money?
Source: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7870-vs-GeForce-GTX-760
I said that it's somewhere between the HD 7850 and HD 7870. That was an educated guess based on the information available at the time. It turns out that I was right, but it's much closer to the HD 7850 in performance.
So PS4 players are getting a GTX 660 in their system?
They're getting approximately an HD 7850 in their system. If you wish to draw a comparison to NVidia, well then I suppose that's a good enough equivalence.
This is really not surprising.
Consumer video cards are sold at a markup. A Gigabyte video card needs to pad Gigabyte's pockets, and NVidia's pockets.
Game consoles on the other hand are often sold at or below cost. The original fat PS3 (the fat awesome one that came with tons of bells and whistles) had a bill of materials in the range of $800 yet retailed for $600. Sony took up to a $200 loss on each console sold, yet made quite a bit of cash on each game licence, controller, and peripheral sold. The XBox 360 wasn't designed to hit Microsoft in the pocket book quite as much but that backfired when the RRoD fiasco hit.
Most analysts predict that the XBox 360 and PS3 both generated net losses for their respective producers over their lifespans.