vivster said:
If they'd actually need any amount of RAM beyond 16GB they would have to come with SSDs which I highly doubt. 16GB for a console in 2021 is absolutely fine and will certainly not be a bottleneck. 16GB or 32GB is not going to make a difference. |
I'm sure people said the same about 8GB in 2009. It's still 4 years until 2021 and GPUs are already at 8GB which still seems cramped. 32GB will likely mean 8GB reserved for OS, 8GB for game logic and 16GB for textures and rendering. More memory will be very much needed if the consoles don't come with ssds. Caching ahead will be essential to keep speeds up. Procedural generation is gaining popularity which avoids a lot of loading from disk, yet needs plenty of memory to store it all temporarily.
One of the high end cards in 2009 was the Radeon HD 4870 X2, 2GB ram, 2.4Tf. PS4 came out with 8GB ram, 1.84tf. Although that was basically a sli configuration, single card was 1.2tf. I don't what speed the ps5 will come down too, yet I'm pretty confident it will have 32GB ram at least.
