Kasz216 said:
Michelasso said:
Kasz216 said:
That's because using GDDR5 for CPU use would be stupid since it's less effective then DDR3 for CPU use and more expensive.
Had Sony been planning 8 Gigs of Ram from the start they likely would of went with 4GB of GDDR5 and 4 of DDR3.
The upgrade is likely just going to inclde bigger sticks of GDDR5 in the slots the original 4GB were going to be.
Also, the insults would be over the top even if you knew what you were talking about.
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I know very much what I am talking about, thank you. GDDR5 has a much higher bandwidth which is beneficial for graphics, and higher latency, which is not good for general purposes computing. Still the PS4 is more or less a single purpose device. It's main job is to run video games, it doesn't have to run crap like MS Office.
In other terms it means that the few general purposes PS4 jobs, like access to the PS Store, sharing, web browsing, etc will be slower than in a PC, but not that much either, since the huge bottleneck is the network banwidth. Few specific tasks in the video games code may have a slowdown as well, but pretty much irrelevant compared to the benefit of moving large chuncks of high res textures and similar from a place to another and computing them. Also because the CPU makes good use of its L1 to L3 caches. In other words, for a video game console (and maybe only for it) to use an unified GDDR5 RAM as system memory as well is pretty much beneficial.
Last but not least Sony planned a GDDR5 only system since the beginning. The only thing that changed compared to the previous development consoles has been that such RAM doubled in size. To add DDR3 RAM would have meant to redesign the whole thing. Which is the reason why MS is too late to catch up (if the rumors about the next box having 8GB of DDR3 RAM and 32MB of ESRAM are correct like they were for the PS4 architecture).
Also, since when offending trolls is unpolite? Are you one of them to take offence? :p
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That's exactly what I said... had you bothered to read. Hence why they don't have any DDR3, when the PS4 would work better with 6 GDDR and 2 DDR3.
As for the above... you wouldn't need any more GDDR5 then you would on the graphics card to get any benefit out of it. That's why you don't see ANY computer architecture out there for it. It has no use... even if you wanted your PC to be purely dedicated for it. Otherwise you'd see at least some computer designs that would.
Since the PS3 is essentially the same as a computer with an integrated graphics card. (Though a much better one then currently offered integrated graphics cards.)
Having no DDR3 won't hurt a gaming machine much,(but does some) it doesn't help it however.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=515109
Is pretty informative on the whole thing... since our resident tech expert mod has more or less said "Fuck me, personally explaining stuff since it will just frustrate me because nobody is going to listen and continue to talk nonsense anyway. "
and Flaming people have been against forum rules, for like... forever. Calling people trolls as well. You may want to review forum rules if you want to stick around the website for a while.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/forum-rules.php#content
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