Analyst: PS5 In 2H 2018 > 10TFLOPS

[KBG29]

Barkley said:

KBG29 said:

This may end up happening, but I just don't think doing a half generational update and calling it PS5 is a wise decision. People have been conditioned to expect a certain level of performance increase from numbered PlayStations, and I think doing a PS5  that is only half the leap we have seen in the past could do major damage to the PlayStation brand. To me, it would be much wiser to call it a PS4 Premium, and not try to build hype around something that can not live up to that hype.

Keeping the ps4 name means the other PS4 models would need to still be supported. If you dubbed the new device "PS4 Premium" when it has a different CPU and GPU... 

Pro uses the same GPU (just has the chipset mirrored and runs at a higher clock), it uses the same CPU just overclocked, and it still has 8gb GDDR5 (just with higher memory bandwidth and an extra gig of DDR3 for the OS). Pro IS a PS4.

Changes beyond what the Pro does makes for an entirely new machine, not a ps4, which would just make things a massive pain in the ass.

That is the thing. It should still be the PS4 CPU and GPU, just like the Pro still uses the same CPU/GPU, with minor new features. At 7nm they should be able to get the PS4 CPU running at 3GHz and the GPU should be able to do 10 - 12TFLOPs by having 4 identical GPUs as opposed to 2, and running at around 1.2GHz. Give devs 16GB GDDR to play with and keep the 1GB for Multitasking, or maybe bump it up to 2GB with additional multi-tasking feautres for Premium users. This would be a $399.99 console in 2020. 

This would be extreamly easy for devs to build to, and give us full 4K/30fps and 4K/60fps versions of PS4 games with no frame rate and pacing issues. It is as good as we are going to get from a device in 2019 - 2020 at the $399.99 to $499.99 console pricing, whether it is a fully new architecture or a modified PS4 APU. 

For games that are not possible on PS4, we need a true generational leap. 8 Core CPU with Multi-threading or Two 8 core CPU's side by side like the PS4 and XBOs Two 4 cores side by side. Either way it needs to be much more powerful per core than the current PS4 CPU. We need 20+ TFLOP GPUs, and a Minumum of 64GB of RAM dedicated to games, with at least 8GB for the OS, but 128GB would be optimal and that would be total system RAM. Finally it has to have m.2 NVMe SSD storage.