Xbox One X Shadow of War shows profound improvements over PS4 Pro

[ironmanDX]

DonFerrari said:

ironmanDX said:

PS4 Pro uses just 5.5gb for gaming.

Cerny himself said in an interview:

On the standard [PS4], if you’re swapping between an application like Netflix and a game, Netflix is still resident in system memory, even when you’re playing the game. We use that architecture because it allows for very quick swapping between applications. It’s all already in memory.

On PS4 Pro, we do things a bit differently. When you stop using Netflix, we move it to the gigabyte of slow, conventional DRAM. Using that sort of strategy frees up almost a gigabyte of our 8GB of GDDR5. We use 512 megabytes [of that] for games, which is to say that the games can use 5.5GB rather than 5 GB. And we use most of the rest to make the PS4 Pro interface 4K, rather than the 1080p it’s been to date. So when you hit the PS4 button, that’s a 4K interface.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2016/10/20/theres-1gb-of-extra-ps4-pro-ram-mark-cerny-explains-why/

It's 9gb VS 5.5 which explains quite a bit, really.

Matches what I said/remembered about half being for the game and the other for UI and seems like presentation.

I wonder if the upcoming revision of the PS4 pro hardware will change that. They've had the pro out in the wild for a while now.