NX Gamer: PS5 Full Spec Analysis | A new generation is Born
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Yeah that intro lol
Also does a great job breaking things down for people that might not understand all the technical stuff.
Also does a great job breaking things down for people that might not understand all the technical stuff.
Almost done watching and yeah, there is definitely a slant here. So much that he has to catch himself multiple times because of his praise of the PS5's SSD capabilities.
This is actually the best breakdown of the hardware and how the variable clockspeeds work yet. It also covers some of the concerns many have voiced over the last day or so.
On top of that he offers a fairly detailed explanation in to why the absolute peak theoretical performance will rarely be reached on either next gen console (in reality the clocks and usage of the CPU and GPU constantly fluctuate during frames whilst running a game), and why the PS5's GPU would only need to drop a couple of percent (or around 50 MHz, eg down to 2.18 GHz) to claw back a pretty significant amount of power in the rare absolute worst case scenario it does hit its power limit.
In other words, it really is 10.3 Tflops vs 12.1 Tflops, unlike what others were trying to infer by clinging to the Github leaks (9.2 Tflops). Add to that, the higher clockspeeds do have their own set of advantages too.
He also talks about potential bottlenecks or limitations in both systems in relation to one another, and the advantages of the PS5 vs the XSX and vice versa.
On top of that he offers a fairly detailed explanation in to why the absolute peak theoretical performance will rarely be reached on either next gen console (in reality the clocks and usage of the CPU and GPU constantly fluctuate during frames whilst running a game), and why the PS5's GPU would only need to drop a couple of percent (or around 50 MHz, eg down to 2.18 GHz) to claw back a pretty significant amount of power in the rare absolute worst case scenario it does hit its power limit.
In other words, it really is 10.3 Tflops vs 12.1 Tflops, unlike what others were trying to infer by clinging to the Github leaks (9.2 Tflops). Add to that, the higher clockspeeds do have their own set of advantages too.
He also talks about potential bottlenecks or limitations in both systems in relation to one another, and the advantages of the PS5 vs the XSX and vice versa.
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No the claims he was making about bottlenecks has no basis in facts. Plus the other statements he was making. This is why DF didnt go this route. You need to back up your claim with evidence unless dont make them.
The PS5 potentially completely offloading the OS from memory (caching it aside!) due to the extreme SSD speed giving it 2.5GB more for games (15.5GB total) is an interesting theory.
This video was actually really elightening, I feel less stupid thinking about these things. Can't wait to see their games.
There are no bottlenecks in any of the systems. It's completely fabricated.
Is that even possible? To have no bottlenecks at all in the console?
Every system has a bottleneck or even multiple bottlenecks. Doesn't have to be a large one but I doubt a system so balanced that there are no bottlenecks even exists.
Agreed, he seems pretty even handed with his analysis throughout.
I think they might simply have ended up with a weird number due to the chips they are using or something. Most likely has to do with cost aswell.
It's physically 825GB (there's no more physical storage hidden away, the OS will take a chunk of the 825GB) because it was the optimal amount for their 12 bus connections (hitting their extreme speed requirements). They are not buying an off-shelf product that needs round numbers for sales purposes.
NX knows his stuff, I'll believe him over fan boys trying to doubt anything good about the PS5 any day of the week.
I concur. I really hope to see the death of the stupid low effort trolling bullshit of an argument that PS5 is a "9.2TF machine which can boost to 10.28TF like 5% of the time" or some such variation of it. It makes going through PS5 threads needlessly exhausting as I have glean over those useless shit posts.
Tangentially, I remember DF mentioning that MS wanted to ensure locked frequencies for CPU & GPU. So does that mean that the frequency of those components never fluctuate depending on the processing load? If so, isn't that efficient usage of wattage? And on that note, don't current gen GPU & CPU core clocks vary their frequencies while in games?
Perhaps one of his more interesting takes in the video. I am really curious to know whether the SSD is fast enough for the majority portion of the OS to be cached there.
I think we really need to see games running and some metrics on if it is actually running a real game at those clock speeds. That is a really fast clock speed and I am really curious if it can actually run at that speed sustained in a game. We won't really know for sure until games are out and tested. It is 10.3 when you do the math at that speed. What we don't know will it 100% run at that speed when gaming?
Agree. I think we are going to see some pretty amazing games on the PS5. Regardless of the TF count and other things, we are still going to get some amazing games. I think some are just too hung up that one has a higher TF number than the other and somehow that diminishes what Sony's World wide Studios can do. Even if the system was a 8tf machine, the games would still be amazing. I personally can't wait to have both of these beasts connected my audio/video set up.
This is a really great well-made video. It's sad that some here choose to attack him cause he seems to be pointing out things about the PS5 that could give t an edge. Even after starting the video with a disclaimer that the XSX would win on rez every single time. He even went on to show a lot of examples to back up his claims even putting a 6TF system against a 5TF system running at the same rez.
That theory of thePS5 preserving less RAMfor the OS is something I have been thinking o since PS5 using an SSD was first mentioned. It should make things really interesting.
That theory of thePS5 preserving less RAMfor the OS is something I have been thinking o since PS5 using an SSD was first mentioned. It should make things really interesting.
Every system has bottlenecks or limitations. It's just about minimising them or prioritising different things
NX gamer is criminally underrated. I wish he had the same following as digital foundry. He totally deserves more recognition for his work and I love his technical breakdowns. It's complex enough without being overbearing.
Yeah, this is the big thing for me. I'll play all the third party stuff on it and i'm sure there will be great stuff there but sony's first party is what i'm most excited about.
And states more than once the clear advantages the Series X will have.
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