| Intrinsic said: You ssy the Neo was never intended to anything 4k? Yet it's original leak and even then supporting documents thus far has indicated that 4k is well in its sights. The PS4k was even one of the leaded code names. And you say a ram bump requires a redesign of the SOC? what kimda nonsense is that?????? You do realize that the channels for the memory are already there in the SOC. And there were 16 of them of which only 8 are being used today. And what about the fact that the initial design prototypes for the PS4 had only 4GB or ram? |
Ok, I see you do not have the slightest idea about hardware design.
Maybe you look on the internet and find a dieshot picture of the PS4 SoC. You print it out and go to somebody who understands what he sees. S/he will be able to explain to you what those four blocks (2 on top, 2 on bottom) are and what they can do (particularly the Clamshell mode will sound like a miracle to you). Now my worst-case bit of redesigning the cache line interface is a bit highest-level so I'm not going into that, way too complex at this stage.
As for the Neo being a 4k console, no it isn't. There is a difference between upscaling 1080p pictures to 4k and actually generating native 4k pictures. The former one is the task of an upscaler (which the Neo has in hardware, thanks to AMD), the latter is a question of brute TF power -which the Neo simply doesn't have enough of it. Sure you could play Pong and Minecraft in 4k native. For anything else: Native 1080p upscaled by good hardware scaler >> fumbled 4k native. I'm sure there will be initial 4k games on the Neo - they will look as shitty then as those sub 720p games look on the X1 now. The next step will be 4k games that do unimaginable software tricks to "look good" but that still won't make the Neo a 4k console.
We don't even know the specs of the Neo's TMUs and ROPs (which are usually tied to memory bandwidth).
The Neo is clearly designed to aid PSVR and get the best 1080p picture for the money. And that is what was originally said. All this 4k talk is just wishful thinking.
