Pseudo PS4 Gets Built Based On RUMORED SPECS, Subsequent Results Worthless.

It must be fun to rock out at a gaming magazine. You can just do things to…do them. The crew at  Official PlayStation Magazine UK built a “PS4” based off of the rumored specs, ran a few games on it, and then dismissed the results as meaningless. Wait — what?

Joystiq:

The fine people at  Official PlayStation Magazine UK  trust the PlayStation 4 spec rumors enough to build the entire next-gen console with the assumed parts, which are all off-the-shelf PC pieces. Rumors have the PS4 using an AMD A8 3850 processor and AMD Radeon HD 7670 graphics card, the latter of which is identical to a mid-range, year-old AMD graphics card, the HD 6670. The processor is a “cheap” CPU solution, OPM writes.

With that  stellar  introduction, OPM tested its fake PS4 against an Intel i7 2700K with  Just Cause 2, and against the PS3 with  Bulletstorm  and  Skyrim. OPM tracked rendering and frame-rate benchmarks for each system, and was underwhelmed with the results.  Just Cause 2  was clocked at 21 frames per second, and the other two stuck around 30, but with barely noticeable graphics improvements from the PS3 version.

Again, these are only the rumored PS4 specs, and simply duct-taping them all together and popping in a game doesn’t equate a true, finished console. Techradar’s components editor Dave James offered some insight into OPM’s test: “Sadly just benchmarking the relevant PC components in the current crop of Windows-compatible games wont give you much of an idea how a PS4 utilising those components would actually perform.

“Coding on closed-platform devices, like consoles, means you can squeeze every last drop of performance out of the hardware because you know that every one of those devices will be exactly the same.”

Well shit, at least they seem to be having fun.