mutantsushi on 01 February 2014
| OdinHades said: All that talk about RAM... Seriously, memory is the smallest issue. The biggest problem of the Xbox is just the way slower GPU. Developers will find ways to get by with esRAM just fine. But the GPU will stay slow. Devs use it better, sure, graphics will improve somewhat. But that is also true for the PS4 so in comparison, X1 will always look weak and have inferior Multiplats. |
Yes, the point being that ESRAM takes up room on the die that would otherwise be used for GPU cores.
It's a direct trade off when cost is fixed.
Conversely, had PS4 ended up with only 4GB total RAM (GDDR), that would have directly constrained games as well.
See the linked article quoting Thuway re: original Sony devkits with 4GB GDDR.
