The face I was making reading these specs when the landscape is clearly significantly changing, Microsoft is ready for it with Lockheart and the strongest console, and Sony is marketing with their peak, 5% of the time, frequencies.
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PlayStation 5 Specs Revealed by EuroGamer (See Threadmarks)
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I'd be very surprised if there's a noticeable difference in loading times just looking at raw numbers. I'm not actually watching this thing though so maybe Sony has some 'magic' that I'm not aware of.
Or they're giving actual size. You know, how a 500gb SSD is only ~420 or a 1tb SSD is only ~850. Let's hope. Everything else...
They are running at continuously boosted frequencies, no? They better have a good cooling solution!
On Backwards Compatibility for the PS5
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As a bit of a noob, what advantages do you think the PS5 can have over the XSX/PCs with such an advantage?
The biggest problem I see so far is that it's not full BC with PS4.
honestly XSX and PS5 seem super close to me overall
If this is the new dev standard we are in for some insane games
If this is the new dev standard we are in for some insane games
Seems accurate.
Tempted to keep ps4 pro for the time being, and buy an X instead since it's got singular BC
Bigger open worlds with less load times, less need for corridors also those are mainly used to hide load screens
Yes they have tested the 100 more played games on ps4 for ps5 and not all of them will be compatible at launch. This is a big miss sony compared to xbox damn
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Yes. The CU configuration is the same and the non-boosted clocks might be real close to the Github number. The Github data was accurate.
Ya 10.5 at best. Microsoft mentioned running into issues with the chip frequency, hence the split ram solution. Like digital foundry I'm curious what issue these amd chips have.
I wonder how loud that will be and variable frequencies is quite strange, wonder how that will work out for devs and user experience when it gets hot.
I guess they want to sell PS5 editions of their biggest PS4 games?
Thanks, this sounds pretty interesting, wonder how much it will be taken advantage of. Beyond exclusives, of course.
I have to wonder if third party devs will really take advantage of the insane SSD speeds on PS5, considering that both XSX and the vast vast majority of the PC market for the next few years will all be using slower drives
It's not for general consumers
Who knows if "most of the time" but yeah, they can go down sometimes (if temps get too high?).
i agree
there's no way this can sustain both clocks for long unless they have a really good cooling solution .
I think that is the advantage. Loads.
I do not think many developers will necessarily design their entire gameplay experience around something so much slower than main memory. But I imagine some PS5 exclusive could have some "you are instantly transported here" things in scenes. That is always fun.
Nvmes full on throughput with those large files is great, but it is still not main memory. Intel Optane helps bridge that gap a bit better, but still, is not main memory.
Sony's approach kind of reminds me of Apple's pc approach where they focus really heavily on the drives and load times because that's what the majority of users notice. A lot more people complain about load times than pixel count, etc. That being said, not very many PC gaming enthusiasts own a Mac. Just different (and very valid) approaches, seems like.
Also Jason I love you but please stop with the "most impressive" thing lol, both machines are very impressive
Also Jason I love you but please stop with the "most impressive" thing lol, both machines are very impressive
Yeah clearly but it won't work this time, this will blow on sony's face