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Shaunaka on 19 April 2014

Very cool thread!



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globalisateur on 19 April 2014

OK, I will try:

GPU ~15Tflops (maybe at 1.2-1.5Ghz) with heavy focus on asynchronous Compute (16x increase of number of compute queues, plenty of new technologies to improve GPU Compute, better sync with CPU etc,)
CPU - 16 cores "cheap, very low consumption, low heat" at maybe ~3Ghz
128GB GDDR6 still unified memory (16x standard increase) at 1408GB/s (8x standard increase)



chapset on 19 April 2014
ganoncrotch said:
chapset said:
This is dumb, cloud computing as render any future hardware advancement irrelevant. There won't be any PS5 or Xbox 2 only Ps4 with the cloud and X1 with more clouds


I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you'll never see fighting games at EVO running on machines which will suffer from Local play Lag, it would mean mastering a game which would have timing altered by your internet connection.

This is why you go at best buy and buy your own personnal cloud



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.

Turkish on 19 April 2014
Mohasus said:
Turkish said:

4K gaming will be possible, but QHD (2560x1440)/WQXGA+ (3200x1800) 16:9 resolutions will also be common in individual cases depending on the Virtual Reality support and if 4K proves too taxing. VR games will be 1440 or 1800p, 90-120fps.

TVs seems to be skipping any resolution between 1080p and 4K, so it doesn't make sense to go 1440p or 1800p. Unless you aren't going for native resolution. Even then, I doubt 4K will be a standard and developers will prefer to push as much as they can @1080p.

Yeah TV's will be 4K but we'll have virtual reality games that are lower res(1440p, 1800p), they are in the exact same aspect ratio as 1080p and 4K. I also think most VR games on PS4 will not be 1080p, framerate is the most important, IQ and resolution will take a hit.



BenVTrigger on 19 April 2014

The wattage and heat dispersal on this thing alone would be insane.



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SvennoJ on 19 April 2014
Soleron said:
ganoncrotch said:

2005/2006 they would have probably said the same thing about the 8gb in those,

Not at all. Remember that's 8GB for both CPU and GPU; in 2006, gaming PCs had 2GB or even 4GB of RAM and 1GB of GPU memory. They could reasonably have forecasted that 4-8GB for the CPU and 1-2GB for the GPU would be needed.

My year old laptop has 16GB of ram, 25% of it in use too just browsing the internet on win 8.
64GB total is not that unreasonable. I think it's going to be 2020-2021 though.
Unless SSD drives get a lot cheaper and faster, loading most of the game into ram will be the only way to keep pop-in under control next gen.
Relatively slow huge hdd + cheap ram is likely still better than a big SSD drive.



Soleron on 19 April 2014
Turkish said:
Soleron said:
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Did people really have 4GB ram in their pc's 2006? It definetly wasnt mainstream then, 4GB RAM still makes up 21percent of Steam, its the 2nd most popular ram configuration. I remember buying a pc around that time with 512MB ram and 128MB vram and that it was a lot.

I have a pc from last year with 16GB system ram+2GB vram and sometimes I wish I had more.

The midrange recommended builds were 2GB. The high end of those same guides was typically 4GB.



Soleron on 19 April 2014
Shinobi-san said:
Soleron said:

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I think most people are completely unware of any of this.

All I'm saying is that technologically and financially, the pace of future hardware progress is in doubt.



GamechaserBE on 19 April 2014

Edit:  =p Forget it;.



ghost_of_fazz on 19 April 2014
Turkish said:
Soleron said:
ganoncrotch said:

2005/2006 they would have probably said the same thing about the 8gb in those,

Not at all. Remember that's 8GB for both CPU and GPU; in 2006, gaming PCs had 2GB or even 4GB of RAM and 1GB of GPU memory. They could reasonably have forecasted that 4-8GB for the CPU and 1-2GB for the GPU would be needed.

Did people really have 4GB ram in their pc's 2006? It definetly wasnt mainstream then, 4GB RAM still makes up 21percent of Steam, its the 2nd most popular ram configuration. I remember buying a pc around that time with 512MB ram and 128MB vram and that it was a lot.

I have a pc from last year with 16GB system ram+2GB vram and sometimes I wish I had more.

No it wasn't. 128 of VRAM was already low back then, considering we had the GeForce 7000's with 512 or even 1024MB of dedicated RAM. Also, gaming PC's of the day had 2048 MB of system RAM. Though you have a point in saying that was not mainstream.

My prediction for the PS4 would be 16GB of shared RAM. 32GB at most.