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1.媒體來源:
Tom's Hardware

2.完整新聞標題/內文:
Nvidia: Consoles Can No Longer Surpass PC Graphics

Nvidia's Senior Vice President of Content and Technology, Tony Tamasi,
recently talked with PC PowerPlay about the typical comparison between the PC
platform and consoles. He revealed that, unlike generations in the past that
were on par if not better than many performance PCs at launch, console makers
no longer have the resources to jump ahead of the PC gaming hardware market.
This became obvious during E3 back in June, as many demos showcased on the
Xbox One and PlayStation 4 just didn't look as good as the earlier PC
versions.

Nvidia 資深副總裁 Tony Tamasi 最近與 PC PowerPlay 提及PC與遊戲主機的經常性比較
。他表示，不比前幾個世代，如果不是在發表時超過許多效能PC，現在遊戲主機業者不可
能在有資源讓遊戲主機領先電腦硬體。這在六月的 E3 很明顯，許多在 Xbox One 和
 PS4 DEMO 不如之前的 PC 版本。

Tamasi explained that at the time of the first PlayStation console, there
really weren't good graphics on the PC. It wasn't until the PlayStation 2
that 3D really started to shine on the mainstream PC platform. By then, the
likes of Sony, Nintendo and Sega could dump tons of money into hardware to
support (then) high-quality 3D graphics. Tamasi even admitted that the
PlayStation 2 was faster than a PC at the time of its launch.



Once the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 arrived, their hardware was on par with
the PC at launch. Look inside those boxes and you'll find hardware by AMD and
Nvidia because, at the time, they were leading the innovation in PC graphics.
He said that Nvidia alone spends $1.5 billion USD per year on research and
development, and over $10 billion in graphics research during a single
console's typical lifespan. Microsoft and Sony simply don't have that kind of
pocket change to dump into research, whereas AMD and Nvidia sell millions of
chips year after year.


Nvidia每年就投入15億美金在研發上，而在一個遊戲主機的生命週期中，Nvidia所投入的

資金超過100億美金。

"The second factor is that everything is limited by power these days. If you
want to go faster, you need a more efficient design or a bigger power
supply," he explains. "The laws of physics dictate that the amount of
performance you're going to get from graphics is a function of the efficiency
of the architecture, and how much power budget you're willing to give it. The
most efficient architectures are from Nvidia and AMD, and you're not going to
get anything that is significantly more power efficient in a console, as it's
using the same core technology."



Consoles will always be less capable than a PC because they have power
budgets of only 200 watts or 300 watts – they're designed to run quietly and
cool in the living room. On a PC, 250 watts can be used solely on the GPU,
thus consoles will never beat a 1000 watt PC. In a chart provided by Nvidia,
the trajectory shows that consoles will never equal or succeed the PC
platform again, that the tiny window between 2005 and 2006 will likely be the
last time these two industries will ever be on the same page.

因為電源有200W或300W的限制，遊戲主機的效能永遠不如PC，。他們是被設計成在客


"At that time, the PC graphics industry wasn't operating at the limits of
device physics and power," he said, referring to why the X360 and PS3 were on
par with the PC despite their power limitations. "If you wind back the clock,
a high-end graphics card at that time was maybe 75W or 100W max. We weren't
building chips that were on the most advanced semiconductor process and were
billions of transistors. Now we're building GPUs at the limits of what's
possible with fabrication techniques. Nobody can build anything bigger or
more powerful than what is in the PC at the moment."



3.新聞連結:
Tom's Hardare: http://tinyurl.com/mvvaxsu

4.備註:

PSU大一點，風扇強一點，聲音就算比較大，比起玩遊戲時電視發出來的聲音，
應該不算什麼吧？為什麼不乾脆都配個 600W 然後放些怪物效能晶片就好了

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◆ From: 67.194.232.103
一台30k桌機其實已經非常非常強了
其實我比較關切的是PS4和 XboxOne的硬體規格，
畢竟以一個目標能夠撐6年的主機來說，這規格好像太弱了。
圖形效能會關係到遊戲體驗啊。
手機從以前到現在效能都低落，但遊戲主機曾經一度凌駕推出時的PC硬體。
如果能解決盜版問題，我想PC真的是個不錯的遊戲平台。
不用1000W，其實600W就可以裝非常神猛的硬體了
※ 編輯: arrenwu         來自: 67.194.232.103       (09/28 14:26)

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