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Next-Gen PS5 & XSX |OT| Console tEch threaD

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MrLove

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Ok, again. The IO performance of the series x is not even touched. That shows the video of the ~500Mb/s external SSD above.
Old games load compressed packets into memory. PS5 won't change that for old games. Those packets than must get decompressed by various decompression algorithms on the CPU (not the fixed function hardware the new consoles have). And now here is the bottleneck. The new CPUs are much faster than those from the current gen, but not that much faster. So for loading the old packets, the CPU is no the bottleneck instead of the IO. You could also see that by using an SSD with the xbox one (x) or PS4. The way faster IO of the external/internal SSD was not even touched even there the CPU were the limiting factor.
I really expect the loading speed for BC games on the PS4 to be more or less the same. The CPU should be on full speed (at least in boost mode) and the IO of the even faster SSD won't do much more. You can already see that in that video. Internal SSD of the xbox series x 10.11s, external (that is at least limited by the USB connection to around 500MB/s) 10.77s. So at best, PS5 BC loading times get 0.5s better.
Stop dreaming. U dont need touch the I/O, its always auto available. XSX I/O is slow as fuck. Velocity architecture is just a name for 4,8 GB/s Raw , not new feature. MS has just fucked up
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
I’m new here, but are lol’s so offensive? I’m watching now, no one better tag me with a lol or it’s on.
i tolerated them for years. Doncabesa can attest to that. Harmless mocking but it got too much recently because both Sony and Microsoft fanboys were giving it to every other post of mine and the passive aggressiveness of it just started to get old.

Oh shit, thanks for the Gold, Zadom Zadom

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Now i understand all the xbox shills



Look at this self entitled goofy bitch. Even the dudes face is "like What are you saying".Talking about freebies. How are you gaming journalist & you don't play generational games on PS. How can anyone take your journalism serious. When you are like this? I said it many times these journos don't play games. Many a bunch of frauds.That bitch is a hit & run skeet job. She's like that with games which is her "job" got damn she'll fuck up your life. Skeet,skeet & run.
 
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kyliethicc

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PS4 games are not loading in 1 second. Expect similar halving or slightly faster load times. During loading, there are other processes that also happen that take more than 5 seconds to initialize. These games were built for PS4 and as such come with software coded to how games are built now. Next Gen games use different api made for next Gen.

You are literally setting up yourself for disappointment.
Nah. And I literally said it will not load in 1 second. No one expects that.

But If you think the PS5 SSD will not load a PS4 game any faster than a PS4 HDD ... then thats sad.

And if game is coded only for a HDD, than the game wouldn't even be able to run from a SSD, unless it was patched.

Cerny said how long PS4 HDD loads take, and by my test, he's correct in his figure.

He then said the goal for PS5 is up to 100 times faster. That 5 seconds or so I'm expecting is only 22x faster than the 90 seconds on my PS4. I'm being generous to his claimed figure of the raw SSD read speed of the PS5. (This would be for comparing the same game with the same load test, like for like.)

Thats perfectly reasonable to expect. Anything less and the hardware will have failed to deliver on its promise.

Also we know nothing about what APIs or lack of APIs the PS4 and PS5 uses, or how they differ. Unless you can source your claims?
 
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kyliethicc

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Just catching up on all of this, and those load times are hideous.

All this time we’ve been touted this SSD like it’s going to be lightning fast, and these are the load times on last gen games??

Any way you cut it, it’s awful.

You can make all the counter arguments you want to, but there’s no way in hell anyone was expecting loading times of that length.

If the Ps5 is similar, all of us deserve to be both disappointed and angry to have been fed such bullshit for months.

Edit... and come the fuck on... no new games? Nothing on the XSX that isn’t last gen?

Six weeks until the console is out. Still No gameplay footage of any games. WTH?
Agreed 100%.
 
The acct suicides today.


Are people really surprised that Bo was banned? I'm only surprised it only happened now
He was acting like a complete and utter cunt so not surprised he got booted. That thread he created was embarrassing and the lock was imminent. This coming from a fellow Sony fan.
The thread was mildly entertaining though as there was one user who went nuclear. Something about the mods being whores lol. Fucking crazy.
 

LucidFlux

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Look at this self entitled goofy bitch. Even the dudes face is "like What are you saying".Talking about freebies. How are you gaming journalist & you don't play generational games on PS. How can anyone take your journalism serious. When you are like this? I said it many times these journos don't play games. Many a bunch of frauds.That bitch is a hit & run skeet job. She's like that with games which is her "job" got damn she'll fuck up your life. Skeet,skeet & run.

FWIW Felicia Day is not a gaming journalist, but an actress and a writer. Entitled and spoiled sure, but not a journalist :messenger_winking_tongue:
 
FWIW Felicia Day is not a gaming journalist, but an actress and a writer. Entitled and spoiled sure, but not a journalist :messenger_winking_tongue:

AHHHHH man this bitch acting. It's all fake lads. She don't play games its all fake. Xbox are hiring Actress & Actors to fake pretend they play Xbox games. AWWW man hard times at xbox. Bringing in frauds gamers to sell boxes. SMH. Xbox scooping all kinds of lowness. I thought it was just these twitter guys & trolls. But actress too damn it man. Xbox out here desperate. SMH.
 
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Tripolygon

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Nah. And I literally said it will not load in 1 second. No one expects that.

But If you think the PS5 SSD will not load a PS4 game any faster than a PS4 HDD ... then thats sad.
That's not what i said. I said expect halving or slightly faster load time. Similarish to what we see with Xbox Series X. These are software developed for a different platform using different api and loading mechanisms.

And if game is coded only for a HDD, than the game wouldn't even be able to run from a SSD, unless it was patched.
That is incorrect as you know, you can insert a SATA SSD into PS4 or use an external SATA SSD and it will work and load faster. Expect the same with PS5.

Cerny said how long PS4 HDD loads take, and by my test, he's correct in his figure.
Your test is not conclusive, some games load faster and some load slower. DO the same calculation with say drive club or Ghost of Tsushima which load in less than 10 seconds.


He then said the goal for PS5 is up to 100 times faster. That 5 seconds or so I'm expecting is only 22x faster than the 90 seconds on my PS4. I'm being generous to his claimed figure of the raw SSD read speed of the PS5. (This would be for comparing the same game with the same load test, like for like.)
The goal is to address every bottleneck between the SSD and the entire IO pipeline ensuring the speed from the SSD is maintained throughout the entire file transfer process to RAM.

This hower says nothing about how each particular software and game engine loads. Remember that Epic had to rearchitect their streaming system to take advantage of PS5 SSD. So must other game studios must do the same and they must use the new PS5 file API to exploit those extreme speed.

Thats perfectly reasonable to expect. Anything less and the hardware will have failed to deliver on its promise.
It is not perfectly reasonable to expect a game made for PS4 to work the same way a game for PS5 would when they are developed against different API and paradigms.

Also we know nothing about what APIs or lack of APIs the PS4 and PS5 uses, or how they differ. Unless you can source your claims?
We do. PS4 uses filenames and paths and PS5 uses ID based system.

There's low level and high level access and game-makers can choose whichever flavour they want - but it's the new I/O API that allows developers to tap into the extreme speed of the new hardware. The concept of filenames and paths is gone in favour of an ID-based system which tells the system exactly where to find the data they need as quickly as possible. Developers simply need to specify the ID, the start location and end location and a few milliseconds later, the data is delivered. Two command lists are sent to the hardware - one with the list of IDs, the other centring on memory allocation and deallocation - i.e. making sure that the memory is freed up for the new data.

Recalibrate your expectations. Yes PS4 games will load faster but you need the new API to take advantage of the extreme speeds.
 
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Three Jackdaws

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Looking at some of these vids....the games are not even patched to run and they look and run amazing

cant wait to see ms or the devs release patches
I really want to see how Red Dead Redemption 2 runs on both the Series X and PS5, it's very likely it'll get a next-gen patch.

For me it was really one of the most jaw-dropping games in terms of visuals, I would love to play it in native 4K on the PS5/Series X with enhanced graphics and improved loading times.
 
This optimised crap is getting out of hand!! Do you really think all the publishers/studios/indies will come back & patch their old games just to please console fanboy wars. There's over 1000 games this gen. Devs have better things to do!!

Are you guys alright?? Alot of Devs are not coming back to optimise all these old games. They got other stuff to do.You know make new games. We told you worry about next gen games ,you wont have these problems. But no, no you want BC back to OG. Now you want them to update old BC games to fit you fanboy narrative and give you hope & comfort.

You boys are crazy bunch. No optimisation will save the slowness of this XSX system. Why do you have to go through the 7 stages every time.The speeds are what they are. This the best xbox got. Its cool.
 
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He was acting like a complete and utter cunt so not surprised he got booted. That thread he created was embarrassing and the lock was imminent. This coming from a fellow Sony fan.
The thread was mildly entertaining though as there was one user who went nuclear. Something about the mods being whores lol. Fucking crazy.
To be honest I have no idea what happened... got a link please? That sounds... entertaining
 

Sinthor

Gold Member
Holy fucking shit!!.
They play games for a living, for professional reasons and cant spend 400 or 500 for a gaming console in merica, while in Brazil, a poor motherfucker like me are spending around 900 dolars and not complainning or demanding anything for free, and I wouldnt do it even If I had a famous YouTube Channel for games.

A poor professionalism musician spend a Ton to get the best instrument their money can own and theses mother fuckers gainning a good amount of money to just play games are complainning to spend a few bucks on a videogame

Must be part of First world problems. Cringy as fuck!

See, that's part of the thing that can give people a bad image of people living in America, etc. That chick is entitled as fuuuuuck and bitchy about it as well. She's just pissed she doesn't rate getting all that stuff handed to her for free. Thing is...she's probably pulling a six figure plus salary a year for whatever she does plus talking about FREAKING GAMES! It's cool and all, but people like that who act all stuck up about things ARE one of the problems we have in this world. Doesn't matter where you live, NOBODY should have that kind of attitude.

Hell, I do ok, but you know what? I KNOW all I have could be gone in almost an instant. I know that what I have I've worked for and that I have to KEEP working my ass off if I want to keep it. And I also know I'm not owed ANY of it. I'm lucky, that's cool...but it's not like I've earned some place in the universe that I was owed. I hate it when people have this kind of attitude that this chick was spouting. Almost as much as I hate those people with personalities that like to hurt others and bully. It's a related mindset, if you ask me.
 
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So we had a reveal showing cold boot, BC, a dash of UI, quick resume...nothing next gen shown. Just BC..

But only X amount of games will work across the generations.

I don't..next-gen..next...stuff like Demon's Souls????


I'm convinced now it's just Game Pass. Nothing else. Their focus is that and that alone.

More power to them then. I'm not really interested until they show me WHY that 12TF high end spec matters.

I haven't seen it *YET* 6 weeks from launch and I'm not certain I will now..
 

kyliethicc

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It is not perfectly reasonable to expect a game made for PS4 to work the same way a game for PS5 would when they are developed against different API and paradigms.
If you think this is what I was saying, then you are misunderstanding.

But thanks for the link/source.

I'm not gonna pretend like I'm impressed if PS4 games load 5-10x faster from the PS5 SSD than the PS4 HDD.

Thats a massive waste of a SSD with such high speed potential.

Expecting 100x is unrealistic, but if Sony underdeliver by such a high degree, I'm not gonna pretend to be impressed.

I'll still enjoy the console, lets not pretend otherwise. It'll be good enough, at worst I'm sure it'll be a nice jump in speed.

But still, Sony need to back up their claims with proof if I'm gonna be like "wow so fast."
 
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Cerny said a PS4 hard drive can load 1 GB of data in around 20 seconds, roughly.

I just loaded up my save in The Last of Us Part II from the in game main menu on my PS4 Pro. ("Continue")
It took 90 seconds. The PS4 Pro uses 5.5 GB of RAM, I think. Maybe 5 or 6.

So with Cerny's figure of 1 GB in 20 seconds, that 5.5 GB would take around 110 seconds. My PS4 Pro took 90 seconds, roughly the same as Cerny claimed it takes. (My PS4 Pro has the stock 1 TB HDD fyi.)

If the PS5 SSD is 5.5 GB/s raw, then that game should be able to load in 1 second, not 90 seconds.
But I don't expect it to be that fast. A reasonable expectation for a PS4 game on the SSD would be what? 5 seconds?

Unoptimized regular back compat PS4 games should be able to load in around 5 seconds from the SSD on PS5, and thats only assuming it can hit 1/5 of the raw SSD speed. Some could and should load even faster.

I fail to see how the figure Cerny quoted for PS4 HDD load times are accurate, and confirmed when I test a game load on my PS4, but then somehow the PS5 SSD load times he claims are not to be expected, even with some tempering?

Theres no reason to expect 10+ second load times of PS4 games on PS5 from the SSD. Unless the network is require. I'm of course talking about local singleplayer games.

If it takes even 10 seconds to do the same loading of TLOU2 on PS5 from the SSD that took 90 seconds on my PS4 Pro, then I will be disappointed. It defies basic logic.

I don't expect the exact raw mathematical figure of loading in 1 second, but 5 seconds is reasonable. That's quite a margin I'm giving them.

The stock drive in the PS4 Pro should average more than 50mbs. 50mbs is the most that could be consistently expected with a game running (for asset streaming), I'm sure the hdd averages at least 110 - 120mbs sequential read.

There is some compute that happens on these loads as well as just the loading. The new systems have around a 4x advantage in processing, so even 20 seconds of CPU processing on the Pro will still be 5 seconds on the PS5 etc. If you looked at CPU utilization during the loading process of RDR2, you'd probably reevaluate some of your positions.
 

Zadom

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This was a pretty wtf clip and i looked up the original source to see the full context as i was curious so here it is if anyone else was wondering. As others have pointed out shes not a journalist but still a pretty wtf thing to say as a content creator/Influencer :messenger_dizzy:



Timestamp 7:08

Microsoft gives away Xboxes to content creators? Aren’t there a lot of content creators? They must give away a ton.
 
How DARE Sony not do payolas? They think I can afford to buy it? Don't they know they are supposed to send me a bribe? What do they think I have? Integrity?
They're dead to me!

I wish Xbox was aware that I have absolutely no integrity whatsoever when it comes to these issues. I would gladly shill for a free unit. I should have created a pointless YT channel and used some of those fake services to get some cheap subscribers. The best laid plans...
 
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Three Jackdaws

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This was a pretty wtf clip and i looked up the original source to see the full context as i was curious so here it is if anyone else was wondering. As others have pointed out shes not a journalist but still a pretty wtf thing to say as a content creator/Influencer :messenger_dizzy:



Timestamp 7:08

Wow, I really enjoy KindaFunny's content but this video was bit of a letdown, it seems a lot of other people agree as well judging by the likes/dislikes and comments.
 
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Three Jackdaws

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Its fill in the blank time.

Neo___.com/threads/digital-foundry-are-lying-about-demons-souls-not-being-4k-and-hiding-halo-being-1440p.1568829/
Link doesn't work but never mind, I wanted to see it but now I don't, I just have this image of a complete bloodbath and shitshow in my head haha Good Lord what did Bo get him self into! Lol
 

kyliethicc

Member
The stock drive in the PS4 Pro should average more than 50mbs. 50mbs is the most that could be consistently expected with a game running (for asset streaming), I'm sure the hdd averages at least 110 - 120mbs sequential read.

There is some compute that happens on these loads as well as just the loading. The new systems have around a 4x advantage in processing, so even 20 seconds of CPU processing on the Pro will still be 5 seconds on the PS5 etc. If you looked at CPU utilization during the loading process of RDR2, you'd probably reevaluate some of your positions.
Its funny because all I've been saying today about the Series X load times is they don't impress me. They are fine. Just not impressive. Purely a subjective opinion.

The user Tripolygon Tripolygon did inform me about how the PS5 has a new file API and thats good to know. I appreciate that.

But if the PS5 load times are similar to what I've seen today from the Series X previews, I won't be impressed either. Thats all.

Its just my opinion of whats impressive versus adequate and I guess I have bit higher expectations than some others.

Its no issue either way, even if I'm disappointed by the load times, I'll just use the console anyways and deal.
 
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kyliethicc

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Wow, I really enjoy KindaFunny's content but this video was bit of a letdown, it seems a lot of other people agree as well judging by the likes/dislikes and comments.
Such a terrible guest to have on to discuss the PS5 event. Her entire contribution was to sit there and go "I don't know" about everything and really messed up with the whole "gimme free shit Sony like Xbox does."

Not a good look.

Link doesn't work but never mind, I wanted to see it but now I don't, I just have this image of a complete bloodbath and shitshow in my head haha Good Lord what did Bo get him self into! Lol

It works for me if you fill in the blank. Idk.
 
kyliethicc kyliethicc it has been rumored that the updated IO for PS5 is more drop-in replaceable for the PS4 code, that should definitely give PS5 an edge in BC scenarios.

With that said, I think some on the Sony side have set their expectations for the old software a bit high in some ways. We'll see what's what whenever Sony gives a demo.
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
They demoed spiderman.... Went from over 8 seconds to 0.83 seconds.
Spiderman PS4 was specifically optimized for the SSD demo though.

I mentioned this earlier, but the 4-6x loading time improvements seem to be tied to the CPU performance increase instead of SSD performance increase. the Zen 2 CPU is 4x more powerful than the x1x CPU and according to DF, up to 6.7x faster than the jaguar CPUs in the base consoles.

Whats even more interesting is that the RDR2 load times are literally identical to the loading times on an x1x ssd as shown in the youtube video linked here earlier today. That ssd was only 500 MBps but had the same 38 second load time.

Unless, Cerny has done some custom work for PS4 BC, i think they will hit the same bottleneck MS did with their BC.
 

Zadom

Member
Spiderman PS4 was specifically optimized for the SSD demo though.

I mentioned this earlier, but the 4-6x loading time improvements seem to be tied to the CPU performance increase instead of SSD performance increase. the Zen 2 CPU is 4x more powerful than the x1x CPU and according to DF, up to 6.7x faster than the jaguar CPUs in the base consoles.

Whats even more interesting is that the RDR2 load times are literally identical to the loading times on an x1x ssd as shown in the youtube video linked here earlier today. That ssd was only 500 MBps but had the same 38 second load time.

Unless, Cerny has done some custom work for PS4 BC, i think they will hit the same bottleneck MS did with their BC.
I am hoping for fast loading times for ps4 games. This is the first time I saved a few games to play on a new system (GOT and Last of Us II). Usually when I get a new system I never look back at past generation. I want these games to go fast!
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kyliethicc

Member
Makes no sense to demonstrate two different versions of the game... I personally don't believe that..

"FLEMING: In the case of 4K and HDR, in the same way that when they were working on the PS5 they did some collaborations with Insomniac using the Spider-Man codebase, we were that codebase on much of the PS4 Pro. We just provided them the compileable code and let them hack on it for a little while, which is useful for everybody."


It would make sense to optimize the code to maximize the resulting speed increase in order to make the demo as impressive as possible. It was a behind closed doors loading speed demo to show off the hardware's load speed, not a direct comparison of the user's daily experience of playing a PS4 game on PS5 via backwards compatibility.

 
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SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
I am hoping for fast loading times for ps4 games. This is the first time I saved a few games to play on a new system (GOT and Last of Us II). Usually when I get a new system I never look back at past generation. I want these games to go fast!
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GoT and TLOU2 already have insanely fast load times on deaths. GoT has like 5-6 seconds fast travel. It really threw me off for the first few hours because it would literally fade out, show a hint screen and then fade in the game. It felt like 1-2 seconds max.

I would love to see what happens to GoT fast travel hint screens on the PS5.
 
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