Zkuq said:
I'm not thinking on PC terms, I'm thinking on future terms. Sony is probably aiming for a long generation again and if that's the case, 4 GB will be too little by the end. 512 MB is just barely enough for now but 256 MB (what PS3 has; the other 256 MB is for the GPU only) is not enough. Sure, talented devs will be able to put it to good use but it'll take a big effort and then you get stuff like Bethesda's games anyway. Also, as I understand it, you say that 4 GB isn't shared with the GPU but then I have a couple of questions: 1) Does it say somewhere how much memory the GPU has? 2) It says 'unified system memory' for RAM so, pardon my ignorance, what might it mean then? |
Oops sorry, I mean for the whole system. Unified RAM would mean it is sharred with GPU and CPU but speculation has 512MB or 1GB reserved for the OS. There isn't a firm knowledge about how much RAM will be needed for games in the future, but if you look at a system like the Wii U which has 2GB, utilizing 1GB for games. Something like 3-3.5GB of GDDR5, which is faster, is quite the step up.
You might want to take the Durango rumors with some salt. They say 8GB of GDDR3 RAM, but dev kits typically have more RAM than the final product and it very well could get chopped down. They also suggest 3GB of that is part of the OS anyway. It really is anyone's guess what the final RAM specs will be, but we had plenty of people just last year speculating that 2GB to 4GB of RAM for Games is the target with anything else overkill because consoles optimize RAM. GDDR5, wasn't even part of the discussion then so it is really interesting to hear some of these rumors on PS4.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
