Anybody think 8 gb of GDDR5 is a mistake for PS4

[GamersAreTrash]

Hynad said:

GamersAreTrash said:
It was a big mistake. The GPU isn't strong enough to take advantage of 8 GB of GDDR5 RAM. Hell, even the most graphically-advanced games use 1.5-2 GB.

Could you please elaborate on what you just said?

Lots of VRAM is useful if the GPU you're running the game on is strong enough to render whatever it is you're trying to render. Most of the graphically-intense PC games only use up 1.5-2 GB of VRAM. I understand that approximately 1 GB of PS4's memory will be dedicated to the OS, so that leaves us with 7 GB of GDDR5 RAM specifically for gaming, which is still much more than a 1.84 TFlop GPU can handle. At max, PS4's GPU can probably handle up to 1.5 GB of RAM before it gets pushed to its limit. The question is, where will the other 5.5 GB of RAM go to?

A 4 GB GDDR5 unified RAM architecture with a 2.5-3.0 TFlop GPU would have been a much more powerful console.