Anybody think 8 gb of GDDR5 is a mistake for PS4

[GamersAreTrash]

JoeTheBro said:

GamersAreTrash said:

JoeTheBro said:

GamersAreTrash said:

JoeTheBro said:
At launch it is overkill. Even after the second wave of games it will be overkill. In 7 years though it could be the bottleneck. Sony doesn't want a repeat of this gen. I expect EVERY social feature in the 720 to be ported to PS4 now that it has so much extra ram.

The GPU doesn't even have enough power to utilize 8 GB.

This is shared memory... I thought you knew that?

Yes. 1 GB is going to be used for the OS.

What will you do with the other 7?

Shared memory means it's shared between the CPU and GPU. Sure 1 GB or so will go to the OS but the CPU needs more then that. Pretty much everything in a game that isn't pixels is handled by the CPU. That takes a lot of ram. On the PS3 50% of the ram was for CPU operations and 50% was for GPU operations. If that same ratio carried over (unlikely), the GPU would only be using 4 GB.

The GPU is too weak to use up 4 GB. The max it'll be able to handle would be around 1.5 GB. That leaves us with a whopping 5.5 GB for CPU operations.