makingmusic476 on 22 February 2013
| Spazzy_D said: This news make me pretty certain the the Next Box has 8 gigs, Sony had to make a last minute change to match it. |
It's pretty much confirmed at this point that the next Xbox has 8gb of ram. However, it's DDR3 ram as opposed to ps4's GDDR5, which has a much higher bandwidth, and all reports say that 3.5gbs of the next Xbox's 8gbs of ram are reserved for the OS. Even when the ps4 was speculated to have only 4gbs of ram, with 512mb said to be reserved for the OS, it was presumed it would still outperform the next Xbox because of that crucial difference in bandwidth.
There's actually a whole thread dedicated to this discussion on neogaf right now:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=48069515#post48069515
