| Intrinsic said: GDDR6 is good enough. The benefits of HBM2 compared to GDDR6 doesn't offset the much higher costs of HBM2. best HBM2 is around 901GB/s of bandwidth while the best GDDR6 is around 864GB/s. And we will not see those consoles come with an M.2 nvme SSD. But my money is on the interface being there. So we will use an m.2 slot that supports nvme drives but will come shipped with a sata based drive. Probably 1TB of it. But the option will always be there for the users to throw in an nvme drive. |
GDDR6 is good enough, but it does not fit the console design nicely. HBM is like a perfect marriage for an APU and a console. It is the ultimate in effeciency in current tech.
I think even if they launched with GDDR6, they would eventually switch to HBM in a revision. The way I work, I wouldn't even waste the time with GDDR6, and just do things right the first time with HBM. There is no rush, so no reason to do a short term work around.
As far as Storage goes, I think that has to be the absolute minimum. If NVMe is not at least supported, I am going to be very, very disappointed. I look at it the same way as the RAM though. There is no hurry for a next gen device, so don't force something if you don't have to. A new platform splits the userbase, and even with full B/C, you are starting a zero again. Best not make that commiment until you have something well worth the it.
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