PS2 : 4 MB Embedded DRAM video memory bandwidth at 48 GB/s PS3 : 256 MB video ram 20 GB/s read to the Cell and XDR memory 15 GB/s write to the Cell and XDR memory PS4 : 4-8 GB ddr5 at ~48 GB/s
I was going off wikipedia on what it said DDR5's bandwidth is, I just checked and if the new xbox is just using DDR3, the fastest speeds I see are around ~24 GB/s. And from what I've been reading about graphics cards, if your memory bandwidth is low you can't advantage of the extra ram as much.
The people who got stiffed the most were Iceland and Turkey, whose launch Ps3's were over $1200 - literally three times the price of the US. It's pretty horrific.
Cmon folks, you don't really think that with the vast amount of PS3's and Xbox360s in the world that aren't connected to the internet that either company would make their next systems require an online connection?
Mark Scerny. A non-Japanese was placed in charge of the Playstation 4's architecture. A bold move that is not typical of Sony. The US market is the area where Sony could see the most growth. Courting US developers is more important for them now than ever.
http://www.vgleaks.com/world-exclusive-orbis-unveiled/ Pretty powerful from the specs. Can't wait to see more of this. It looks like they are staying away from Cell, so i hope this means developing for it will be a lot easier, and there won't be a dip when developing several SKUs at the same time. Who knows.. maybe this…
"Sonys new console will feature graphics chips developed by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and processors capable of rendering games at 240 frames a second, Pachter said. Current-generation games typically render at 30 or 60 frames per second. " Nice! So 240 fps for nextgen then? In Pacther we trust.
Microsoft's diagram shows how it works, and both have the same effective bandwidth (~170GB/s). Given the identical processor and likely motherboard, the reports given by VGLeaks would suggest it is pretty much the same memory setup (but in differing quantities). Even if I'm making a wrong assumption and it is different,…