Ashadian said:
walsufnir said:
Ashadian said:
It isn't perfect for consoles as theirs only 32MB of it. It then becomes a puzzle to solve and a bottleneck. GDDR5 Ram is the better overall solution!
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PS2 had embedded ram, 360 has embedded ram, gamecube, wii, wiiu, even psp according to wikipedia. Seems the puzzle has been solved by devs long ago.
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Why would you want or need a tiny amount of embedded ram when you can use one unified pool of GDDR5 ram? This is exactly what Mark Cerny is saying. The extra die that MS lost by adding the 32mb ESRam Sony have benefitted from having a far more powerful GPU and a much easier platform to develop for.
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The 360 had unified ram *and* embedded ram and I really think those engineers know a lot better on how to build performant systems than you. Sony had luck with their approach that the prices turned out well for them. If you have two individual teams with a certain goal in mind and let them design a system it is no surprise that they have different designs. For MS this was the best solution, for Sony it was another one.
And if anything is easier to program for depends on way more than just hardware.