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But Can It Run Crysis 3?
MojoKid writes with Hot Hardware's summary of what it takes to run the newest Crysis: "We've been tracking Crysis 3 for a while, from the trailer a few months ago to the recent alpha multiplayer preview. The game is available for preorder and it will launch in February. Crytek has now listed the minimum system requirements for Crysis 3 and they're as follows: Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8, DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM, Dual core CPU, 2GB Memory (3GB on Vista). Those aren't particularly stringent parameters by any means, but as we all know, 'minimum requirements' rarely are. Crytek suggests upgrading to a quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, with examples of CPU/GPU combinations that include Intel Core i5-750/NVIDIA GTX 560 and AMD Phenom II X4 805/AMD Radeon HD5870."
Are you joking? Do you know how badly ray tracing would godlag the computer and murder your performance? Modern GPUs are not made to handle actual graphical rendering technology like ray-tracing - anyone who regularly uses Maya/3DSMax/Lux/Firefly/3Delight/Carrara is painfully aware of this when it takes 1.5 hours to render 1 frame of 2 raytrace bounces. Video games will literally never use ray-tracing, not without severe limitations - which negates the point of using it. No game uses raytracing. I'm not sure what you're basing this on, honestly. And no, no console gives remotely close graphics to a computer. I think you're missing a massive flaw in your argument - the reason any PC Game does look similar in graphical quality to its console counterpart is entirely irrelevant to the power/ability of the computer. It looks that way because all games are developed for console, and then ported (horribly) to PC. There aren't customized ports like there were in the 90s when an entirely different studio handled porting the game to PC. Games are either made for PC - Age of Empires, Total War, Black and White - or they are made for console; every other game.