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Orbituary, rok temu do games w PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060?

ASICs.

There are processors that are optimized specifically for the task of running code correctly written for the platform.

Okalaydokalay, rok temu (edited rok temu) do games w PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060?

It’s a little easier when the machine is dedicated to that and only that. The OS doesn’t have all this extra crap running in the background that takes resources from the game because it was designed for that in mind.

That and devs have just one machine to design their game for versus trying to make their game run on hundreds of machines with very different specs.

Some devs, especially first party devs who work closely with or directly for the manufacturer also have insider knowledge of the system they’re developing the game for. The Crash developers did this in the PlayStation 1 era by tapping into resources that other games weren’t using to push out even more performance from the hardware.

Ado, rok temu

Would be amazing if windows did what steam deck does in shutting off the OS during gaming mode.

astropenguin5, rok temu

I doubt windows either has or wants to have that functionality, given their more business/general purpose oriented focus, also the steam deck runs on Linux.

A part of me wonders if it would be possible to put the Linux distro/is of a steam deck onto a dedicated gaming computer to get some of the optimisations from it like that.

Quentintum, rok temu

That’s the Holo ISO project. It looks pretty experimental and only supports certain hardware (nvidia graphics cards not recommended).

DoomBot5, rok temu

It’s a little easier when the machine is dedicated to that and only that. The OS doesn’t have all this extra crap running in the background that takes resources from the game because it was designed for that in mind.

At best you’re looking at a 10% performance penalty, closer to the 1-3% range without known bad background software.

norske, rok temu (edited rok temu) do games w PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060?

I not a dev or anything. But my understanding is that it all comes down to leveraging all the capabilities of 1 single hardware configuration. You can tune and optimize your code to extract every bit of performance out of the consoles hardware because the hardware (and software too I guess) doesn’t change. PC games are much MUCH harder to optimize. Users can have a near limitless variety of hardware, driver, and OS combinations that prevent such a high level of optimization.

Bitrot, rok temu

I think this is the main bit of it. Just look at the Baldur’s Gate drama on the Xbox because there are two configurations and one of them is less capable.

InverseParallax, rok temu do games w PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060?

Optimization, son.

Callie, rok temu

Fr, you can optimize really well when you know exactly what hardware someone will be running.

Swedneck, rok temu

Or if you just actually take the time to have your programmers optimize the game, knowing the hardware is nice but sooooo much of modern games are just generally unoptimized.

wizenheimer, rok temu do games w PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060?

A 2060 is still a really good graphics card overall.

anti_antidote, rok temu

Yeah, it’s not like Sony’s pumping out $500 consoles with GT1030s in em

full_on_rapist, rok temu do edc w My EDC as a father and frequent corporate traveler

Surely you’re using the sewing kit for torn clothes and not your childs wounds, right?

rubbs, rok temu

You would be correct.