Microsoft's Project Scorpio will certainly move 4K games, such as Minecraft or Rocket League and perhaps one more that is well optimized, but we'll see what happens with real games like Gears of War or The Witcher.
Yesterday, a heated debate erupted regarding my comparison between the leaked specifications of Microsoft's Project Scorpio and the hardware currently available on the market. Many either refused to understand or only grasped a fragment of the text, which in some cases they twisted to suit their own purposes. Today, I'm returning to the topic of " toaster consoles" because we've reviewed the issue in depth and realized that Microsoft has indeed not guaranteed 4K @ 60fps; that depends on the game.
Indeed Digital Foundry was able to test the game Forza 6, a car game, where the textures and particles that the graphics card has to load are from another galaxy, even above games like The Witcher, Gears of War, Crysis 3 or DOOM. Where it will stop. If the example of a game to be moved to 4K in a fps rate is that, I think that on PC we should leave Tomb Raider, Ashes of the Singularity or Bioshock Infinity, from this moment on the games that really establish if a graphics is good or It is bad are Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Minecraft, two games loaded with textures and that to move them to 1080p @ 60fps, you need a GTX 1080 Ti or a CrossFireX of RX 580, at least.
Leaving aside this humorous parenthesis, which the XBOX worshipers will not have made the slightest grace (while writing I am breaking the box), I must say that I use the term 'TOASTER', because I remember the red lights of the mythical XBOX 360 and The mod, which I leave you on video, where we can see the chef Ferrán Adrià cooking a good piece of meat at low temperature, using a PlayStation 3. So that the friends of XBOX do not say that we do not give Sony.
Rereading all the information from Global Foundry about Project Scorpio we have noticed the detail in which they comment that the start menu works at 4K. It is quite an achievement, or well, not so much, but it is already something, since we can watch YouTube videos in 4K using our console instead of our SmartTV. I will tell you one thing at this point, the last console I had was the PlayStation, the good one, the original and after that I already went to real gaming platforms, computers, where you do not have to wait forty centuries to install a pirate game , since two days later they are all in Torrent to download and enjoy (I refuse to spend € 60 plus € 10-15 for DLC for two weapons and a map).
I'm going to try to get serious about it, although at this point, I doubt that many will continue reading after reading toaster in capital letters. Consoles once had their space, but today with the solutions that exist, that space is reduced, indeed, more and more users are who stop buying consoles and opt for the computer as a gaming platform, which allows you , as in my case, to write this satire with shades of black novel and homeopathy. The only thing that wins is in 4K, since the monitors and graphics for that resolution are worth a lot of money, but hey, we'll see the 4K of the Project Scorpio.
Microsoft might surprise us on Sunday; they could leave us all high and dry and announce a console that allows 8K @ 60fps or 4K @ 120fps gaming—if they're going to make promises, I'll make them. We say this because it will likely have an HDMI 2.1 connector, which supports these resolutions. In the end, most games will probably just upscale to 4K, especially those with particle effects and textures, with Minecraft History Mode and maybe two others running natively in 4K. There aren't any affordable TVs that support 8K either, so 8K is pointless for now.
It's very funny, because it's not the first time I've been accused of speaking without knowing. A few months ago I said 'the AMD RX Vega does not exist, it is in the development phase' and before Computex 2017 I said that 'the AMD RX Vega will not be presented at Computex and will arrive at the end of September at the earliest', they are two quite successful important and hope to add this to my collection. I'm sure Project Scorpio will move games to 4K, I don't doubt that, but Indie games, games like Forza 6, games where the textures and part of the backgrounds are static images. For heavy games like Gears of Wars or The Witcher, it will shoot 1080p / 2K with 4K upscaling and on. I had to say this to close: TOASTER.
I don't think I get to 4k at more than 25 fps mostly because of the cpu and the architecture of the polaris 10 graphics
They might move the games to 4k if they apply the technology to worsen the parts that the player doesn't see, there was a demo out there with Halo explaining the process if I remember correctly. On the other hand, optimization can help a lot what is a closed platform which is an additional point. Finally, and this is in my own opinion, is that not even Amd itself knows how to get 100% of the potential of its product via drivers, perhaps under the M$oft team they will give them some extra improvement.
PD1 - I would like to see where the Amd graphics would go if the Nvidia Drivers team made the drivers for them.
PD2- This is for the Editor SG is not the best science fiction series although it comes close.