{"id":100587,"date":"2016-08-10T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100587"},"modified":"2016-08-10T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T11:00:19","slug":"how-powerful-is-the-hardware-inside-the-playstation-neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100587-how-powerful-is-the-hardware-inside-the-playstation-neo","title":{"rendered":"How powerful is the hardware inside the PlayStation Neo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony has announced its next-generation\u00a0gaming console, PlayStation Neo, which will be more powerful and more efficient than the current PlayStation 4.<\/p>\n

The company has remained relatively quiet regarding the device’s potential performance capabilities, although we have some idea of the hardware present inside the system thanks to an early specification leak<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Digital Foundry<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has used the leaked specifications of the PlayStation 4 Neo in order to simulate its performance using a PC gaming rig.<\/p>\n

This concept is quite reasonable, as PlayStation Neo hardware will use AMD Radeon Polaris hardware and is closer to a PC platform than previous console iterations.<\/p>\n

Because this test aims to measure graphics processing power, it focusses purely on graphics performance.<\/p>\n

Below is a specification comparison of the Radeon RX 480 and the PlayStation Neo’s leaked specifications.<\/p>\n

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PlayStation Neo\u00a0and Radeon RX 480 Specifications<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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PlayStation 4 Neo<\/div>\n<\/th>\n
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Radeon RX 480<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
GPU<\/strong><\/td>\n36 GCN compute units at 911MHz<\/td>\n36 GCN compute units at max 1,266MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Bandwidth<\/strong><\/td>\n8GB GDDR5 at 218GB\/s<\/td>\n4GB GDDR5 at 224GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Compute Power<\/strong><\/td>\n4.2TFLOP\/s<\/td>\nReduced clock to 911MHz for 4.2TFLOP\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The graphics capabilities of the Radeon RX 480 and PlayStation Neo are similar enough to reasonably simulate the GPU performance of a PlayStation Neo by under-clocking\u00a0the Polaris graphics card.<\/p>\n

Because graphics performance is the sole focus of the simulation, Digital Foundry used a Core i7 6700K<\/strong> processor in order to avoid bottlenecks.<\/p>\n

Below is the framerate of the PlayStation Neo simulation machine running Star Wars Battlefront at various resolutions:<\/p>\n

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  • 1,600 x 900<\/strong> – 70FPS<\/li>\n
  • 2,560 x 1,440<\/strong> – 58FPS<\/li>\n
  • 3,200 x 1,800<\/strong> – 39FPS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The results of the simulation benchmark determined that the PlayStation Neo would simply be unable to deliver 4K gaming with its current specs, and instead aims at a sweet spot of 1,440p\u00a0gaming at 60FPS.<\/p>\n

    This remains a large improvement from the current iteration of PlayStation 4, which features less than half the performance power and is based on older graphics architecture.<\/p>\n

    Check out the full benchmarks of the RX 480\/PlayStation Neo simulation below:<\/p>\n