| thismeintiel said: I definitely agree with 2 and 3. The PS5 is more than likely to get 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, with possibly 1-2 GB of DDR3/4 dedicated to the OS. And I'm thinking Sony will go with a 8 core Ryzen APU. That's going to be a big leap over the Jaguar, and probably help them achieve B/C with the PS4 much easier. Where I disagree is 1. While I believe 12-12.5 Tflops is more likely, 15 isn't out of the question. I think the purpose of the Pro was twofold. One was to take advantage of a budding 4K market. But, the 2nd one was to allow their engineers to experiment in making a console that needed better cooling and had a larger power draw. I think they are more than capable of putting a 12 Tflops, and even a 15Tflops, GPU in something the size of the Pro. |
For every node shrink, its safe to expect in doubling in processing power. This is assuming that the general architecture remains the same.
PS4 shrinking from 28nm to 14/16nm... basically reesulted in 2 times the GPU and the ability to run the CPU and GPU at a slightly higher clock.
Now if we take the PS4pro as a base and shrink from 14nm to 7nm, we basically will be going from 36 GPU cores to 72 cores. Coupled with running that at a higher clock than what we have in the PS4pro currently, we realistically will have anywhere between 10TF-12TF. But thats a straight swap.... without doubt there will be various optimizations or improvements in the chip design so that could very well be as much as 12.5 to 13.5TF when its all said and done.
But as I said earlier, there is a lot more to a generational jump than just having a beefier CPU and GPU.
Memory is very important. Particularly HBM. 16GB of HBM with a with bandwiths as high as 512GB/s would be a very big deal in a console. And I also believe that the next gen consoles will come with two seperate memory pools. 16GB of HBM for the games and 4GB of LPDDR4 for the OS (yes the same kinda ram used in smartphones today).
Then we have the the hard drive, having the consoles natively support and ship with m.2 SSDs will totally change how gme engines are designed.
Next gen isn't gong to be about resolution as this gen has been..... its going to be about everything else.
