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darkknightkryta on 06 June 2013
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ethomaz said:

darkknightkryta said:

It's that eSram. I have no idea which engineer thought it would be a good idea, but he should have been fired.  They should have stuck with tried and true eDram.  It wouldn't have been as fast, but it would solve a lot of issues.

It is a really smart choice... MS planed to have 8GB RAM but with the GDDR5 released at the time they will need 32 chips... the cost of the project will be way expensive, the memory controller and PCB a lot complex.

So they have the smart ideia to use DRR3 and compensate the slow speed with cache... eSRAM... the eDRAM is slow to what they wanted.

Now they are just having the issues that every chip maker have with big and complex chips... I can remember the monster GT200 created by nVidia, aka GTX 280, the chip was big and complex and nVidia have a lot of trouble to fix production issues.

Now it is time to MS face these issues.

Everything will end fine... maybe only a low supply at the first months.

 

But how much more damange will that cost them?  Delayed production, possibly a weaker console, low demand can be a loss sale.  What if the console's power gets knocked down below a teraflop which is what this rumour suggests?  The PS4 is going to be noticeably more powerful then.  Sure the eDram would be slower, but it wouldn't be causing these problems and the performance hit would be negligible.  Especially considering the performance hit the console might have now.