drkohler said:
Your small rant is so wrong I don't even know where to start so I just leave it at that. For the rest of the readers, the problem of what is faster - ddr3 or gddr5 - is a very complex question, and depends on many things but basically boils down to severely following programming models and how the memory transactions are wired into the system.. It has absolutely, but really absolutely nothing to do with harddisks. You can be 100.000% certain that both Sony and MS ran thousands of hours of code simulations to get to their preferred method. Both systems, PS4 and XBox720, have additional (bus-transactional) hardware that makes it essentially impossible to discuss the matter since we don't now what is going on on the busses when games are running on either system. |
Im not wrong.. Go install faster ram in your home pc and see if it runs faster... It wont because its still waiting on the hardrive! ( The slowest memory in any system ) ...Yes memory benchmarks will be faster.. But REAL world improvements will be minor .. In x86 the games are built around the gpu.. The gpu will affect fill rates and whether the system studders during gaming much more then GDDR memory speed.. If Ms was using 10 year old DDR - then yes you'd be right! But they arent... Sony is using GDDR5 and for what reason? The game will be loading while playing- from the hard drive and possibly the 6x bluray player.. Data will be going across the system bus much slower then the faster pieces will process it.. The point is until Sony and Ms put Solid State Hardrives ( that cost too much right now ) in their consoles.. Some components can be overkill.. Computer makers have done it for YEARS: Mated faster memory with a high end cpu and the system was still dependent on the slower bus and hardrive!
My point is GDDR5 is overkill with a midrange graphics card! And as long as data is streaming from a hard drive or even worse - an optical drive such as bluray then the system is bogged down.. The faster components help to an extent but they have to wait on data to come in from the slower pieces even though those faster pieces are capable of going much quicker
