Intrinsic on 07 November 2014
| phaedruss said: I think 16 GB of ram will be overkill for a console next gen. As others have said what we need are faster gpus and faster ram. |
In a console set up I don't think having faster RAM wil be to much of an issue. Right now but the PS4/XB1 uses a 256bit memory Bus. The WiiU however uses a 1024bit bus. Though it uses much slower RAM. If the PS4/XB1 had a 1024but RAM bus then overall memory bandwidth would literaly quadriple. Its not that simple but thats the general Idea.
I think where some of the most radical changes would be made next gen will be in the feild of storage and transfer speeds between storage and system ram. The things on CPU/GPU and RAM are pretty much a lock now with some very basic forward thinking and if you just look at what is already out there.
