theprof00 said:
I thought your point of that thread was that their setup was perfectly in sync with their output, and they didn't need the high speed of gddr5. If I'm wrong about that, my bad. That's how I interpreted it, although I do see that a large part of it was about gddr5, I thought it was more about the speed |
If anything, it proves that the term "gddr5" is somewhat overplayed. Yes, gddr5, by nature, has a much higher bandwidth than DDR3. But that doesn't mean that gddr5 is the only means by wich to achieve or obtain high bandwidth. At the end, Microsoft went with low latency DDR3 (for their own W8 app ambitions) while simultaneously having a boost in bandwidth with the esRAM.
There will always be a debate as to wich solution is better/worse but by judging this DF article they seem to believe that any performance advantage that the PS4 has over the X1, will not be evident until perhaps a few years down the line. And even then, it'll probably just be relatively minor (ie slightly higher resolutions). The thing I got the most is that these systems will be much closer in performance than we were initially let to believe.
