PS4 Overheating & The Red Line Of Warning

[drkohler]

selnor1983 said:

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.....

Why that quote? It says absolutely nothing about actual power consumption. This quote is ridiculed wildly because of the "uncomfortable place" bit. This was after Sony announced 8G of unified gddr5 ram, so by now everone should have realised just how "uncomfortable" the situation is - for Microsoft, not for Sony.