These forums will be hilarious if Next Xbox is more powerful than PS4

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JayWood2010 said:

Where did you guys think i was going with this?  I am just explaining what Shared Memory means, nothing else.

I don't know, it's just that you are downplaying the value/importance of the memory. Sure graphics cards and especially the one probably used in the PS4 are never going to fully use the RAM straight into graphics but that quanitity and at that quality is really important. The PS3 used 256mb/256mb for everything, OS, graphics, and otherwise. I think this is a big thing for game development and we will see what kind of effects it will have on if not the graphical performance, the development environment.

What GDDR5 means for the GPU is that it won't be limited by its bandwidth speed. So more of that 1.8 tflops is actually usable, resulting in much better games. Slower RAM would make it harder to access the power of the GPU or limit it entirely. Since the PS4 will be GPU heavy, this is great. A gaming PC would never crank out the power out of the PS4's GPU like a dedicated system will with minor customizations. So really we should be expecting the PS4 to run well above the established PC benchmarks for this hardware.