Adinnieken said:
JerCotter7 said:
He seems full of crap. First he has no idea what Sony did with the audio chip. It may be a piece of crap or it could be better than the bones chip. He also talks about what he thinks the extra processors might do. When they may do nothing worth mentioning beyond small tasks. The ESRAM being in banks of 8mb means nothing. The developers will only see the final 32mb. Same as the DDR3 ram. So no it is not being used in a unique way. PC games wont make use of it for years unless the CPU becomes the bottlekneck. PC's already have GDDR5.
His post just seems like a lot of what ifs with some bullshit thrown in.
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Actually, 32MB divided up into 4 - 8MB blocks means you can have two processes reading and two writing to the memory at once. If they're smart, no, they won't think of it as a single 32MB block. More importantly, I think the API will make using it approrpiately easy.
A patent was awarded yesterday on how Microsoft is doing coherent memory, the patent dealt with the API or at least the images I looked at did, and it's clear that they are working to ensure developers have to do as little work as possible to take advantage of hardware features.
Sony didn't do anything with an audio chip, they don't have one. They have a video encoder and that is for the DVR function.
Taking small tasks away from the CPU and GPU frees up processing cycles for the CPU and GPU. The very reason you use separate processors.
And thank you for posting such intelligent remarks as "He seems full of crap." Your assutute, educated observations not with standing, he actually makes some reasonable, rational points.
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Devs only see 32mb. It doesn't matter how it's split up. The API will only show it as being the full 32mb.
Sony have a low level and high level API so they also want developers to have an easy way to get the power of the system but they can go deeper if they choose.
The PS4 does have an audio chip.
Yeah I didn't say it wouldn't free up any cycles. I'm saying we don't know how much it will free up. It may not even be worth the extra programming time.
Yeah he does. No problem. He doesn't make any rational points. I skipped his whole crap about the DX11.2 feature set as that is his worst point of all. No need to take it personally but his post is full of crap.
EDIT: I have no problem with the main article itself. Of course the bone is more powerful than people think. But then so is the PS4. There is a lot we still don't know about either system. It's just replies like his are annoying.
