fillet said:
VGKing said:
fillet said:
VGKing said:
fillet said:
RAM doesn't make graphics, limitation of RAM makes it harder to make games with free flowing open play without constant loading screens.
You could put 100GB of RAM in a calculator, it's still a calculator.
It's great news about the 8GB of RAM in the PS4 but some members here don't seem to grasp what that actually means. |
More RAM allows for higher-res textures. So yes, it does in a way make graphics. I'm sure there's dozens of other ways that RAM can affect graphics.
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True but you're using 1 point to show another is true where the 1st point is irrelevent, if the RAM was limited to something like 1GB or possibly 1.5GB, but since we already know the CPU is fairly slow and the GPU is fairly fast (but in no way able to make use of more than 2GB of video RAM), you are wrong.
We will not be seeing high res textures that saturate more than 2GB video RAM for PS4 gen, likely much much less circa 1-1.5GB video RAM being used.
It really annoys me having to make a post like this because if people read yours it will look like you are "correct" - you aren't.
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If the GPU wasn't able to make use of more than 2GB of RAM, they wouldn't have included so much to begin with. RAM is what developers wanted to improve the most next-gen since pretty much everything depends on it.
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I'm talking about video RAM here, which is obviously shared with the system.
So 2GB max for video use and 2GB max for game use would be plenty = 4GB total.
PC games may well use 3GB+ but at least 2GB of that is used for the OS.
Obviously having 8GB is a good thing, and it leaves headroom for developers to not spend as long optimizing and for additional features in the OS and I'm very happy about it. Don't kid yourself that this is going to make graphics any better though.
RAM quanity is about allowing a platform to be used as intended = not about speeding it up.
RAM speed can make things faster though of course and GDDR5 is top speed stuff.
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Let me just ask you this, don't you think that 8GB of GDDR5 can affect design choices in video games?(At least, in terms of exclusives)
