| Trumpstyle said: Hmm my math gives 13.3 Teraflops for 80CU clocked at 1300mhz, you need more Mhz. About the CPU I believe an 8 core zen2 makes most sense with no hyper-threading. It's easier for backwards compatibility and with threading disable it will allow for higher clocks and better yields which will save a lot of money for Sony and microsoft. My first choice for storage is a 2TB mechanical drive with 128gb super fast soldered flash storage. This gives both the big storage they will need for next-gen and with super fast flash storage it will make up for the lack of Ram increase. My second choice is 1TB ssd drive, the cheapest 1TB ssd drive on newegg.com is 130$ and flash storage prices is expected to drop 50% next year making 1TB ssd easily affordable. |
You are right. Need a little more Mhz. But we are in the ball park and I am already grossly understating what can be possible.
As for CPU, I don't think BC would be a design consideration to that extent. Reason being that even if they went with 6 cores a 12 threads clocked at 2.5 - 3Ghz, Ryzen 2 architecture is still so much more powerful than the jaguar architecture in the PS4 that they would run circles around the jaguar CPU. And the next CPU being x64 is more important than any number of cores i has as far as BC is concerned.
With regards to storage thats my thinking too. I don't think there will be any kinda hybrid mix and match splution though as that just complicates things. I think they would either solder the storage onto the board or use an M.2 drive. Especially when you consider that as you pointed out nnd flash prices are dropping. By around july 2020 (which is when i expect the PS5 to go into mass production) i wouldnt be surprised if sony can throw in a 1TB sata based M.2 drive for under $30. The real question is if they want to build in future proofing and give their users the option to upgrade their ssd and even put in a nvme drive if they want or if they opt to just save as much money as possible and solder the storage directly onto the PCB.
