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All right, everyone. Sit down and buckle up because we're about to go on one hell

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of a high definition ride at 792p.

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With its power loss protection, affordability, and performance, the

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SP920 from A Data makes upgrading to an SSD remarkably safe and simple. We're

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going to try and quantify just how not nextG the nextG consoles are. And we're

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going to do this by taking our test bench and figuring out exactly how much

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graphics horsepower is needed to deliver the console grade experience in Watchd

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Dogs versus how much raw power it would need to deliver a PCRA experience.

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Basically, high resolutions and much higher frame rates. We know that our

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test bench is overkill and not really comparable to a console, but we chose

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these parts in our experiment to remove potential bottlenecks and focus on our

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funky thought experiment in terms of GPU clock speeds, an extremely important

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factor for gaming. Bear in mind that by removing these bottlenecks, we're

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keeping the test as fair as possible. And if anything, our lower graphics

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configuration gets an advantage from the OP CPU and RAM. But how do you remove as

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many variables as possible and bring everything down to GPU clock speed?

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well, by strapping a GTX 480 to it. I chose a GTX 480 because of its ability

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to underclock and overclock quite well, giving it a wide range of possible

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performance levels. Things to note are that the Xbox One and PS4, while closer

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to typical PC architecture than any console generation before, are still

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actually quite different. We're also not covering power consumption, and we're

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running everything on high settings all the time. We expect the devs want that

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experience on any given platform as a baseline. So changing it between runs,

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which is add more variables. And again, we're just focusing on GPU clock speed.

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The lowest clock speed I could get on my GTX 480 was 405. And this allowed me to

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run the game at 792p and about 32 to 33

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FPS. Yeah, I actually couldn't underclock my 5-year-old GPU to be as

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slow as a nextG console. PC master race

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problems. If we don't nerf our 5-year-old GPU quite so hard, we can get

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pretty easily to 1080p 30 FPS, but 60

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FPS is a completely different ballgame. 1080p 60 FPS wasn't going to happen on

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our poor old 480. But good old awkward 792p was able to run at 60 FPS if I

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cranked this GPU clock speed up to 875 MHz. So yeah, Ubisoft FPS and resolution

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are numbers and so is clock speed. And those so-called nextG consoles should

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have had a lot more of all three. Again, guys, I can't stress enough, these are

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very different architectures, and we're only interested in seeing how much more

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raw power the GPU of a platform that can run at 792p 30fps would need to run at

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1080p 30 FPS and 792p 60 FPS. And it was

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interesting to see how borderline these nextG consoles actually are, because

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going from 792p to 1080p only required about 40% more raw power, while doubling

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the FPS required more than double that raw power. Uh, this is bad news for

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gamers who think they're going to get 60 FPS beautifully rendered games this gen

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because they're not even close. But this was just a quick and dirty thought

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experiment. And while it does show a representation of the power needed to

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get these consoles up to speed, calling it a perfect representation of the

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competitive landscape may be a bit of a stretch. Also, for the console guys,

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there are things coming down the line like MS Cloud for Xbox One and DirectX12

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for nextG consoles in general that may help them, but after looking at the

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performance needed for them to catch up, I think it's possible they're going to

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need a little bit more than just that. All right, guys. That was just kind of

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some food for thought. I hope you guys liked it. If you want to see more like this, let me know in the comments below.

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