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"Most powerful console in the world",
so that means its on par with a 2014 PC?
Without overclocking, not quite: The Titan X launched March 2015 at 6.14 TFLOPS.
Aggressively OC a 980 and a good CPU, and you could have indeed broken 6 TFLOPS in Sept. 2014 though.
Now you can get a 12 TFLOP 1080 ti, but it'll cost you $200 more than an x1x. Vega 64 air cooled is 12.66 tflops at the same price as an x1x, but in most gaming cases it'll perform worse than a 1080 ti. ( AMD does really good in compute though, such as crypto-currency mining. Hence why until very recently the Vega cards have been substantially more expensive than their MSRP. )
With all the hoops you apparently have to jump through, and settings to mess with to get that "best output", I feel like this kinda defeats the purpose of a console these days (as if constant patches and updates weren't already doing that). If I wanted to put a bunch of effort into playing with all the bells and wistles, isn't that what the PC's for?
Anyways, I'm still just waiting for them to inevitably make a game that plays like absolute garbage on the regular Xbones, necessitating the XboneX, so that they'll get called out on their "genless console" scheme. I just hope that game isn't Halo 6...
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