| shikamaru317 said: We have a top of the line m.2 SSD (Sony said it was one of the fastest SSD's on the market as I recall), probably 1 TB, that's going to cost Sony at least $70. |
That is because Sony is taking advantage of PCI-E 4.0. Otherwise it would be no faster than the fastest current SSD... It is essentially a baked in feature with Ryzen 3000 and Sony is taking full advantage of that... And good on them. - I am interested to know if the SSD will be the primary storage or if it will act like a cache drive.
In saying that.... You can get SSD setups faster than what the Playstation 5 will have on PC even 5 years ago, so it's not the "fastest SSD" setup possible even before the consoles release.
And once PCI-E 4.0 is out in the wild, PC will have m.2 slots that are just as fast... Which should happen this year actually.
| shikamaru317 said: We'll most likely have at least 16 GB of GDDR6, possibly as much as 24 GB, though a middle ground of 20 GB is the safest bet I'd say. That's going to cost Sony at least $80. |
From what I saw of Scarlett, it seems Microsoft will be using a mix of 2GB and 1GB chips, so we can assume 24GB is in for Scarlett... However, 8GB of that will only operate at half the bandwidth, so if Scarlett employs 14Gbps GDDR6 on a 256bit bus, then that last 8GB will be 224GB/s of bandwidth whilst the rest of the 16GB is 448GB/s.
It does mean we are probably looking at 8GB for the OS/Background duties.
Sony could be taking a similar approach. Or they may opt for only 16GB of GDDR6... Or 16GB GDDR6+8GB DDR4.
The memory front is probably the most interesting thing that can happen with the next gen hardware.... Heck. All the above may also be wrong, I am just going by the imagery I saw from E3 with the Scarlett reveal and building my hypothesis from that.
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