Need Help From The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race

[oxymoron]

Which GPU is similar to what the PS4 uses?

[isiolia]

Which GPU is similar to what the PS4 uses?

It basically has an underclocked Radeon HD 7870 with two compute units disabled (usually a way to increase production yield). In turn, for the current market, the R9 270 is essentially a rebranded 7870 with a slower clock and faster memory. A 7850/R9 265 has 16 CUs active...so...the PS4 would have something that falls between an R9 265 and 270.

'course, consoles tend to get more optimized software, and may utilize hardware more directly/efficiently to boot. The PS4's version of that GPU has a direct route to system memory, and some other additions that a PC card won't have.

Chances are, the "exact" hardware in a PC will fall behind over time.

[oxymoron]

I was looking at used GPU's and I kept seeing that people said they were still under warranty. How does that work? Do they pass it on to me?

[Cronozilla]

Yes, you have to account for the massive foot print on PC, in addition the OS itself not being incredibly efficient, you have hardware drivers which are quite unoptimized, and on top of all that you have the game software which isn't remotely optimized. It's the largest issue with PC gaming, you need magnitudes more power to do something the consoles can do with the less powerful components they have, just because of this nonsense. It's a real problem.

Personally, I don't know of many manufacturers that let you transfer warranties. I think I remember hearing something about EVGA doing something like that, but it limits the coverage. I'm not sure, the best idea would be to look at the manufacturer's website of the specific card and see what they say about second hand warranty.