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Turkish on 20 April 2014
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TheJimbo1234 said:
Turkish said:

Sorry for being a decade too early, this is what I think will be the specs of the PS5:

Specs:
+10TFlops console
12-16 cores
56-64GB RAM 16x4 GiB GDDR6 memory chips (set to be introduced within 2-3 years, GDDR5 was introduced in 2008)

4K gaming will be possible, but QHD (2560x1440)/WQXGA+ (3200x1800) 16:9 resolutions will also be common in individual cases depending on the Virtual Reality support and if 4K proves too taxing. VR games will be 1440 or 1800p, 90-120fps.

~12GB RAM will be reserved for the OS, the footprint will decrease gradually over time.

Release: November 2019, 6 years after the launch of PS4. It might come out 2 years after Nintendo's next and 1 year after Xbone successor if MS wants to release a year earlier again if they're beaten badly this gen.

Motivation behind my estimates:

+10-12TFLOP: PS3 was ~300-400, PS4 is 1.95TFLOP so 5x increase, ofcourse AMD is bringing out 295X2 which is 11.5TFLOP, the card costs 1.5k dollars, but it will take more than 5 years before we see such a beast of a card become the mainstream standard (200-250 bucks) which is the tier of cards next gen consoles will feature. But the 295X2 will be ancient in terms of technology and features by 2019, by then the cards will be on newer memory and GCN version etc.

RAM: basically an increase of ~8x, this is half of what RAM increases of previous generations: PS2 32MB, PS3 512, PS4 8GB, I think a 16x increase(128GB) is a bit too much this time around.

12-16CPU cores: cpu's will have more cores to handle more tasks, AMD and Intel already provide cpu's with that many cores for server solutions.

 

 

Firsts for many in the industry:

-First time real ray tracing in games

-VR becoming mainstream, bundles with PS5, 4K OLED VR headset affordable

-4K gaming becoming mainstream

-CGI like graphics feasible by mid gen thanks to enormous amount of horse power and memory

 

 

What do you think?

That's pretty terrible and I think you need to do your homework before guessing like this.

The chance is that it will actually never be launched and it will go to cloud gaming. Also the huge change coming in 2016-17 with gpus and the increase in power needed for these cards will most likely kill the console. It would be better for everyone to pay $15 a month to access sme monolithic server Microsoft or Sony run.

That RAM volume is absurd, especially with 12GB for the OS. Why?! Where did you pull that random figure from? It will stay at 1GB as OS's are small.

4k will never become mainstream. Many houses in Europe and Japan are not big enough to have these 60 inch + TVs in. Also bluray is still 1080p and this won't change as the TVs are expected to upscale it.


I did my homework, but did you? Cloud gaming with next-next gen graphics is not gonna be a thing within the next decade, too many people that dont have the necessary connection, maybe most of Europe and America will have the necessary  connection sometime in 2020s but Playstation is a global brand that serves millions of people without the best connections, they will never introduce a PS5  that will be limited to only a handful of elites in the West.

Whats the huge change thats coming to gpus in 2016? And why would the tdp increase so significantly when the chips get smaller and more efficient. GPU TDP has been stagnant, it's been around ~250 watt for the last 5-6 years for high end cards.

The RAM volume seems fine to me, why would you need 3GB for the OS right now when 50MB was more than enough for last gen consoles? These kind of questions are silly to me, new technology, unforeseen  features and latest shit always get added no matter how hard you try to predict the future telling yourself that a fixed amount will be enough one day. It will not, never.

4K will become mainstream just like 480p, 720 and 1080p became mainstream. With enough time, the next technology will always become the standard. I can't believe there are actually people arguing that technology will stop evolving LOL.

You dont need 60" TV to enjoy 4K, 50" is more than enough to see the benefits, and the average TV screen size has been evolving to +50" the past decade despite our small homes. 4K has already started going mainstream, it is appearing on more monitors and tv's, not sure why you're arguing against technological advancement.