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The newest entry in Nvidia’s GTX 700 series has been revealed – the GTX 760. Priced at just 209, the GTX 760 is available now from partners such as ASUS, EVGA, Gainward, KFA2, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit, PNY, Point of View and Zotac. It’s powered by Nvidia’s Kepler architecture and …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox One’s AMD Jaguar CPU examined
The AMD Jaguar CPU that lies at the heart of both PS4 and Xbox One may not be the gaming beast we had expected. Rock Paper Shotgun got its hands on an 4-core 1.5Ghz variant of the 8-core 1.6Ghz chip found in both consoles. It speculates that once the multitasking …
Read More »Mark Rein "calls bullshit" on EA’s PC vs next-gen consoles claim
Epic boss Mark Rein has shouted down recent comments from EA regarding the technological merit of next-gen consoles. Last week EA’s executive VP and CTO Rajat Taneja stated that: Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have adopted electronics and an integrated systems-on-a-chip architecture that unleashes magnitudes more compute and …
Read More »Microsoft: Each Xbox One will contain the power of four machines thanks to the cloud
The Xbox One will technically outstrip the PS4 thanks to the power of the cloud, Microsoft has claimed. The platform holder made lots of noise about its 300,000 server network during last week’s Xbox One reveal, but the claims it has since made are staggering. The headline here is that …
Read More »Xbox One "does not target high-end graphics"
A Microsoft developer has effectively admitted the Xbox’s retreat from the console graphics war. "We purposefully did not target the highest-end graphics,” GM of silicon development Greg Williams told Engadget, as spotted by CVG. We targeted more as a broad entertainment play and did it in an intelligent way. "The …
Read More »Iwata refutes "misconception" that Wii U lacks graphical oomph
The Wii U is not underpowered, the president of Nintendo has argued. That’s despite the fact that it about matches current gen machines Xbox 360 and PS3 but will trail far behind PS4 (and Xbox 720) upon their release later this year. "It is a fact that some software development …
Read More »Next-generation of mobile devices will beat Xbox 360 and PS3 in power race
Nvidia’s senior VP of content and technology has said that mobile devices will very shortly overtake the PS3 and Xbox 360 in terms of technological clout. Speaking to Bit-Tech, Tony Tamasi said that the milestone will be achieved when Nvidia releases its next generation of mobile chips after it retires …
Read More »Wii U "can rule out any next-gen pretentions"
A detailed look at the until now mysterious innards of the Wii U suggests that Nintendo’s machine will be eclipsed by the upcoming PS4 and Xbox 720. The tech heads at Digital Foundry have examined the results of a detailed teardown of the Wii U hardware. The result is a …
Read More »UPDATED: PS4 is 50% more powerful than Xbox 720 – INTERNET EXPLODES
My dad could beat up your dad. Except neither of them exist beyond the confines of our imagination. It’s a bit like that. But we’re unofficially in the run-up to the next-gen now. Imagine the last few days in the office before Christmas. You’re technically at work but everyone expects …
Read More »Iwata dismisses the importance of being first to market
Wii U will be the first next-console to market, but Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata has dismissed the idea that it gives the machine a competitive advantage. "Being first in the next generation race is not important at all," he told Gamasutra. "One of the reasons we believe this is the …
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