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32 gigz of ram in the PS5, you heard it here first folks.



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Darwinianevolution said:
I clicked here thinking it was Dance Dance Revolution 5. Now I'm dissapointed. :(

HAHAHAHAHA I laughed so much.



Darwinianevolution said:
I clicked here thinking it was Dance Dance Revolution 5. Now I'm dissapointed. :(

I clicked here hoping someone would post this, thanks for the morning laugh.



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CGI-Quality said:

I know some may not realize the significance of this, but it's a big deal. It pushes consumer RAM development up a year, while also! So that's GDDR6 in 2018 (thank you, Volta), with DDR5 in 2019!

Console fans - pay attention!

 

 

Turkish said:
32 gigz of ram in the PS5, you heard it here first folks.

Not of DDR5, however (at least, I hope not). Probably 16-32GB of G5X or G6.

Whats your dream scenario? :P I think they'll surprise us with the amount of ram, kinda like the PS4 announcement. When it is announced early 2020 16-24GB gpu cards should be commonplace.

Also, DDR5 is too soon, I just got 16GB of DDR4 last year! Only 2400, wish I got higher but it was when people still mistakenly said higher frequency didn't matter.



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It makes me wonder how quickly the laptop I purchased this year will become obsolete!! It's interesting thinking of how laptops will change in power in only 5 years.



Until may Aorus laptops DDR3 becomes redundant, who cares.



CGI-Quality said:

I know some may not realize the significance of this, but it's a big deal. It pushes consumer RAM development up a year, while also! So that's GDDR6 in 2018 (thank you, Volta), with DDR5 in 2019!

Console fans - pay attention!

Do you think RAM technologies for CPU and GPU will ever converge or at least be on the same chip? Or are they just too different? Would be cool if we had completely unified RAM some day with a universal interface. Imagine just taking 2GB RAM from your CPU and plug it into your graphics card because you need more RAM for that now.



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vivster said:
CGI-Quality said:

I know some may not realize the significance of this, but it's a big deal. It pushes consumer RAM development up a year, while also! So that's GDDR6 in 2018 (thank you, Volta), with DDR5 in 2019!

Console fans - pay attention!

Do you think RAM technologies for CPU and GPU will ever converge or at least be on the same chip? Or are they just too different? Would be cool if we had completely unified RAM some day with a universal interface. Imagine just taking 2GB RAM from your CPU and plug it into your graphics card because you need more RAM for that now.

Playstation 4 uses the same memory for both, its cpu & gpu.

It runs with GDDR5.

My secrete hope is they eventually do the same on pc.

Id love to see a APU equal to a PS4 or better, for cheaper than a "intel cpu + nvidia gpu" is.

With Ryzen AMD are close enough, that the differnce in cpu tech is a meh, between the two.

If your cpu comes with a gpu equal to a ps4 as well? alot of people wouldnt buy intel anymore.

 

Theres also some advantages to haveing both cpu+gpu on the same memory.

It allows for "heterogeneous computing".

Think of it this way, right now all your x32 bit programs you run, do so mostly via the cpu.

But the cpu isnt always the most effecient way to do certain tasks, some your gpu can do better.

Nvidia/amd have programs that run more effective on the gpu, than a cpu (like encodeing movies and such).

However  these programs then dont use the cpu, they are a "either-or" situation.

With Hetrogeneous computing, you can split up any task (if you program for it) and you can use both the gpu+cpu together to work on the task,  with each part doing what their best at, and leaveing the the stuff their bad at to the other. This increases the programs run speed, and effeciency by a huge factor.

its one of the reasons AMD started makeing APUs.

They hoped they could make the world at large see the reasoning in this, and get programs that work like this out to consumers.