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Hynad on 12 March 2013
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GamersAreTrash said:
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.

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.

Considering you were confused about shared memory, I'd need a source for that stat.

Quote me where I was confused about shared memory.

Well, just the way that you emphasize the fact that the GPU won't use the whole of those 8GB of RAM is a good enough indication that you're a bit lost about what RAM can be used for.

I mean, seriously. No shit, Sherlock.