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VGKing on 05 April 2013
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Pemalite said:
VGKing said:

8GB GDDR5 UNIFIED memory. This is the only RAM that is available to PS4 and is shared by eveything.(This is a positive thing in case you don't understand)

Not entirely. - There is Pro's and Con's to unified memory, one of those cons is that bandwidth is shared between everything communicating with Ram, in the end the PS4 will get much less than 176GB/s of bandwidth for graphics operations. - Don't get me started on memory contention and such...

The bonus to unified memory is ease of development and that each processor, be it GPU or CPU can talk to each other with one less trip in the middle, reducing latency, which is impacted anyway as GDDR5 is high latency.

But for the love of god, stop praising GDDR5 memory, I have more GDDR5 memory in my PC than the PS4 will have in it's entirety, it's amazing how people will grab a high number (Cell/GDDR5) and run with it, praising it till the cows come home, when in the end it's still inferior to other platforms.

You have higher than 8GB of GDDR5 in your PC? No, you don't lmfao. 

There aren't really any cons to having a unified pool of memory. PS4 has both the quantity and quality it needs.(8GB + high bandwidth). The main thing we should be comparing this to is the next Xbox and based on current spec rumors, PS4 has the best design.