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[partyphone]

Ok people who know about tech, (attempt at a) serious question from my behalf now.

How important is PS4 united architecture?

It's very important. It'll be easier to develop for and port to. And AMD's APU is designed to transfer well to cheaper manufacturing processes which means lower costs and high scalability.

 

[TheRagnCajun]

This

I don't see the comparison. If sony wanted a marketing ploy to convince consumers they would have put a better processor in and neglected the RAM, like every other hardware manufacturer, since forever. RAM has never sold a piece of hardware.

Furthermore, I don't recall Sony droning on about the RAM, only GAF is doing that.

 

[Dennis]

It's really hard to say as most PC need to give windows 30-40% of their RAM allocation and even top of the range halo cards like the Titan don't have 8gb DDR5.

PS4 having 8GB DDR5 Is a major blow to PC and XBOX gamers as they've previously had the upper hand in western developed games.

PS4 has 8gb of which probably 7.5 is available for games while the average PC has 30-40% of 4-8GB.

Sony may have stolen microsofts playback next gen but they've done it in a bold and brave way.

 

[Cipherr]

All this thread needs is some guy to come in trying to link to GIFs from his fucking PC and we could pretty much wrap this shit up.

[/img]C:\windows\ThisIsMYSTUFFMOM\Allmypics\Killz0ne4_PS4_WOW.GIF[/img]

 

[kpjolee]

It's really hard to say as most PC need to give windows 30-40% of their RAM allocation and even top of the range halo cards like the Titan don't have 8gb DDR5.

PS4 having 8GB DDR5 Is a major blow to PC and XBOX gamers as they've previously had the upper hand in western developed games.

PS4 has 8gb of which probably 7.5 is available for games while the average PC has 30-40% of 4-8GB.

Sony may have stolen microsofts playback next gen but they've done it in a bold and brave way.

I LOL'ed hard...

 

[PeterVenkman]

All this thread needs is some guy to come in trying to link to GIFs from his fucking PC and we could pretty much wrap this shit up.

[/img]C:\windows\ThisIsMYSTUFFMOM\Allmypics\Killz0ne4_PS4_WOW.GIF[/img]

Hold on, I can't load that image - do I need to download more RAM on my end?

 

[Paradicia]

It's really hard to say as most PC need to give windows 30-40% of their RAM allocation and even top of the range halo cards like the Titan don't have 8gb DDR5.

PS4 having 8GB DDR5 Is a major blow to PC and XBOX gamers as they've previously had the upper hand in western developed games.

PS4 has 8gb of which probably 7.5 is available for games while the average PC has 30-40% of 4-8GB.

Sony may have stolen microsofts playback next gen but they've done it in a bold and brave way.

 

[LightofRohan]

Ill probably double my mobo first and then add some more teraflops to my floppy drive

 

[ShellyDeKiller]

It's really hard to say as most PC need to give windows 30-40% of their RAM allocation and even top of the range halo cards like the Titan don't have 8gb DDR5.

PS4 having 8GB DDR5 Is a major blow to PC and XBOX gamers as they've previously had the upper hand in western developed games.

PS4 has 8gb of which probably 7.5 is available for games while the average PC has 30-40% of 4-8GB.

Sony may have stolen microsofts playback next gen but they've done it in a bold and brave way.

wow... I said wow

 

[wsippel]

Have a look at this:

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/arbeitsspeicher/2012/test-welchen-ram-fuer-intel-ivy-bridge/3/

As you can see in the final performance ranking (upper chart), getting more CPU bandwidth increases performance by 1% on average. That's why you don't need GDDR5 as your system memory.

I did a few benchmarks a couple of years ago, and latency had a much bigger impact than bandwidth in almost all cases.