drkohler said:
selnor1983 said:
drkohler said:
selnor1983 said:
But the one of the reasons Microsoft chose not to use GDDR5 was because of excessive power consumption and heat. Especially during playing of a game.
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Nonsense. PS4 uses low power gddr5 chips. Coupled with address and data bus inversion, the memory in the PS4 actually uses LESS power than the memory in the XBox One. Read the data sheets.
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Microsofts design architect on why they chose not to use GDDR5.
"Yeah, I think that's right. In terms of getting the best possible combination of performance, memory size, power, the GDDR5 takes you into a little bit of an uncomfortable place," says Nick Baker.....
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Why that quote? It says absolutely nothing about actual power consumption. This quote is ridiculed wildly because of the "uncomfortable place" bit. This was after Sony announced 8G of unified gddr5 ram, so by now everone should have realised just how "uncomfortable" the situation is - for Microsoft, not for Sony.
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Its not ridiculed everywhere at all. Its ridiculed by certain people. It makes total sense.
I hope that Sony arent going to have issues. I really do. It was annoying as hell with the Xbox 360. You seem to have decided to cut the part that follows.
"Having ESRAM costs very little power and has the opportunity to give you very high bandwidth. You can reduce the bandwidth on external memory - that saves a lot of power consumption"
Why did you cut that?
Anyway look, Obviously the PS4 shutdown and couldnt be used for awhile due to heat. Xbox Ones have been in glass cases to and havent had the problem.
Average joe will just stick his PS4 in his entertainment unit or cupboard. Thats where these devices go. So I hope Sony designed it to withstand use in an entertainment unit.
I really hope none of you go through PS4's or have to have periods where you wait for it to cool.
