PlayStation 4 gives up to 5.5GB of RAM to game developers

[Xenostar]

ethomaz said:

Xenostar said:
So ps4 has 5gig for games at all time plus another 512mb swap file on the hdd, so 5.5gb, but that last 512mb is slow.

If you add swap in HHD you have 8.5GB total memory and not 8GB.

5.0GB Games
.5 Swap

So... 3GB for OS?

yeah 3gb for OS, which i find as no surprise at all, id be even less surprised if they made it 3gb after they found out MS were using that much, but Sony would never admit that. 

this 1gb of flexible ram is actuallly extremley developer friendly, id also be surprised if MS dont have something similar. Just no one has felt the need to do an in depth analysis of  there ram set up. All windows operating systems have had this swap file setup so its not a new invention, but it is new to Sony consoles.