PS4 Overheating & The Red Line Of Warning

[selnor1983]

drkohler said:

selnor1983 said:

But the one of the reasons Microsoft chose not to use GDDR5 was because of excessive power consumption and heat. Especially during playing of a game.

Nonsense. PS4 uses low power gddr5 chips. Coupled with address and data bus inversion, the memory in the PS4 actually uses LESS power than the memory in the XBox One. Read the data sheets.

Microsofts design architect on why they chose not to use GDDR5.

"Yeah, I think that's right. In terms of getting the best possible combination of performance, memory size, power, the GDDR5 takes you into a little bit of an uncomfortable place," says Nick Baker. "Having ESRAM costs very little power and has the opportunity to give you very high bandwidth. You can reduce the bandwidth on external memory - that saves a lot of power consumption and the commodity memory is cheaper as well so you can afford more."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-the-xbox-one-architects