torok on 19 June 2014
| Intrinsic said: Game DVR is not the reason the PS4/XB1 reserves cpu cores or reserve 3GB of the 8GB of on board ram. And some of that 3GB reserved ram will be given back to developers at some point. All that aside, the reserved resources for the OS wouldn't result in any respectable performance benefits. |
Exactly that. Both consoles use separate processors and H264 hardware encoders to allow it. It wouldn't be possible without that, if you record and encode your screen on a PC you actually get a punch in performance. Using dedicated hardware to do it was the smart way to do it.
