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I think it's the curvature of the world that's making it run so well on mobile. There's never to much models on-screen to draw.

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Don’t neglect that 2020+ mobile chips are better at graphics than PlayStation 4.

Fun quip but doesn't seem to be true in practice (if we're talking strictly smartphones, not tablets).

PS4 specs: ~1.84 TFLOPS FP32, 18 GCN CUs @ 800 MHz, 8 GB GDDR5 @ 176 GB/s.

I think maybe some released-yesterday phone might get close on spikes/bursts, but not on any sustained loads, like gaming, nor would the beat the PS4 on image quality either.

The CPU on the iPhone 13 mini (apple’s last phone, in my opinion) wins:

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-sony_playstation_5...

Shader throughput (shader count times base clock) is similar too: https://gadgetversus.com/processor/apple-a15-bionic-vs-amd-l...

The iPhone wins on boost shader throughput by a lot, but that’ll throttle. The ps4 has more, slower gpu cores. Not sure how gpu memory bandwidth compares.

Even if it is only true in theory, it is still amazing to know.

I did not know that.

The curvature makes the world seem big and gives quite beautiful scenic view when you are on the rooftop of a building in the town.

It also gives an eerie, otherworldly feelings when there's only sky ahead, taking more than 2/3 of the screen, and looking more like water flowing vertically. I had few moments when I suddenly felt like I'm inside a bubble, staring at its wall curving upwards.

This game is beautiful in every way.

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