Beastly. I bet this is all Mark Cerny's doing.
He convinced them with that soothing voice of his.
PS4 has 8 GB OF GDDR5 RAM
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He convinced them with that soothing voice of his.
grimshawish
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That doesn't fill me with confidence at all :/
Sickboy007
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No wonder Mark Rein sounds like he's in love with it.
Holy overkill.
Holy overkill.
Xplatformer
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I'm curious what games he's playing that are making use of that 16GB GDDR5. I'm sure they are glorious.
JohnnySasaki86
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I really want Thuway and everyone else who told us that their sources told them 8GB was impossible, why?? what happened? Why is this possible? why were the sources wrong? I WANT ANSWERS!
Hot Coldman
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The Yerlis won.
Eat up
Oh gah. Good times.
I got to say I'm impressed with them getting 8gigs of GDDR5.
Wasnt totally blown away with anything tonight, but solid show no doubt. I expect to be amazed at E3. Show me some UC4.
This thing may push $499 now, which will have me waiting a bit, but with MS using slow ram they will really have to amaze otherwise.
Its a lot of very expensive, super fast memory that normally is found directly on video cards.
Kung Fu Grip
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I want that motherfucker to read me a bedtime story.
Dreams-Visions
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most multiplats will cater to the lowest common denominator, bro. A lot (maybe a majority) of multiplats won't take advantage of the added RAM on the PS3, I wouldn't suspect. Much as they did not this gen. As such, I'd expect most games big games to sit in the range of 1-2GB of VRAM range. No more. Maybe they'll include some high-res textures for the PS3...but probably not too much more. Or, I won't expect too much more.
Zombie James
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Zoe
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Is it poor taste to post the last row in the Wii U thread?
Wishmaster92
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It was probably 4gb to begin with, i'm betting they increased the ram at the last minute.
Best part about all this info being out there.
All this silly "my sources tell me" nonsense is pretty much over.
clutch.as.it.gets.
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Mark Reihn just said on gametrailers that Sony really stepped it up and answered their love letter (demo; it appeared he dissed MS with that statement (how he said it)). He also said that the 8 GB means that they need now way less resources to get the job done and that the ps4 is the perfect fit for their engine because they answered their love letter.
Which means that they could be also wrong about Durango specs.
I love the people saying Durango can suddenly just one-up this by announcing an increase in memory as well. Console development isn't that easy. If MS wants to increase their memory, they'll be affecting their whole architecture as well and they can say goodbye to that holiday 2013 release if they were planning on it.
polyh3dron
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yup, 8GB unified GDDR5.
Willy Wanka
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I think this is great for the future of the console but that £300 figure from the Times is absolute bullshit now. I wouldn't be surprised if this costs even more than a launch PS3 did here (£425).
The RAM is not sub-divided in sections. Its a large shared pool that can be used for ANYTHING the developer wants. There is no hard limit on what can be used for textures or geometry data or AI etc. A dev could use say, 5 GB for textures if they wanted without hassle.
Or you can stop taking rumors that you read on GAF as gospel and wait for official specs.
The ram isn't that much of that $200.
I seem to recall soeone in the large memory thread saying that 1GB was bout $15 about 12 months ago but I could be wrong.
While DDR3 is cheaper , the Durango is rumored to be using ESRAM to offset the slow DDR3 speed which will not be cheap.
polyh3dron
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misprint? they said it verbally at the PS Meeting multiple times and it was on the slides.
that limb just broke and you're free falling.
FairXchange
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GT Live post show, Watch Dogs dev confirmed that was running on a PC scaled to what they think PS4 will look like. They have the game running on PS4 hardware but aren't ready to show that yet.
Raitosaito
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Where is sony making the moneyz?
lol People wanted high end and we get this kind of response. I'm excited to see what first partys can do with this amount of RAM.
Next gen Uncharted will be looking out of this world.
I guess we wont be running into Skyrim problems again, thank god.
But 8GB of GDDR5, after all those discussions on how expensive it was and the heat it would generate, how are they going to do it. It is supposedly running slower from reported specs than typical GDDR5 isn't it? have they found a cheaper GDDR5 solution some how and can pack more in at less cost and heat?
I'm fully expecting something alone the lines of a subscription based payment like MS is doing in the USA for the 360 at the moment, easier on customers and Sony can make more money out of it.
But 8GB of GDDR5, after all those discussions on how expensive it was and the heat it would generate, how are they going to do it. It is supposedly running slower from reported specs than typical GDDR5 isn't it? have they found a cheaper GDDR5 solution some how and can pack more in at less cost and heat?
I'm fully expecting something alone the lines of a subscription based payment like MS is doing in the USA for the 360 at the moment, easier on customers and Sony can make more money out of it.
and remember the footprint of the OS/UI gets smaller as the the system gets better optimized with updates and so on, a lot more memory will be available for developers as time passes
Haha I never thought of it like that for some reason.
Would such a thing actually be possible? Could something play fully off of RAM? I don't see why it couldn't as it is just faster memory. I had just never thought of that
It's a single RAM pool usable by both the CPU and GPU.
People have spent weeks arguing that 8gb of ram would be useless; you'll have to give them some time to reconfigure their talking points
It's basically one block of memory that can be used for anything, CPU and GPU can access it.
Unlike the PS3 which had Video memory and general memory pools.
KojiKnight
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Unified just means that the graphics and general purpose ram are all the same. There is no split pools between the different hardware and that it's all the same speed. Compare this to the PS3 which has 512MB split ram, 256 for each graphics and general computing.