What do yo think will be the hardware specifications of PS5 if it arrives arround 2019-2020?

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Intrinsic said:

You couldn't be more wrong on that. GDDR6 fits perfectly with how consoles are made. HBM is always going to be more expensive and complicated than just soldering chips onto a MB. And with HBM you introduce the issue of lower yields per package. More things can go wrong. And that doesn't sit well with how consoles are to be designed. Further more, the benefits doesn't justify it adoption for consoles. 

As i adhered to previous and this time i would be more detailed. 16GB GDDR6 with 256-bit bus will give you 576GB/s. 24GB of GDDR6 with a 384-bit bus will allow for around 860GB/s of bandwidth. All options would cost less than going with HBM. They can one day transition to HBM, but only when the tech and its implementation is cheaper than GDDR6.

You also seem to be of the impression that by 2020 there wouldn't be enough in the tech space that can be implemented in a $400/$500 price point that would justify the jump to next gen. I think you are wrong and would be pleasantly surprised.

My theory, is that the PS5 will come in at $499. I believe that GDDR6 would be well developed tech by then and as such cheaper than it obviously would be today. I also believe that we will see a return to a split CPU and GPU in the consoles even tho they are both from AMD. This would drive the cost of the CPU+GPU up by around 50% but would result in a significantly more powerful console at launch. So rather than seeing a 12TF GPU we could be looking at an 20 to 24TF one instead. If and only if they go with a split architecture. 

If they do go for a 2019 - 2020 release then I hope you are right about splitting up the CPU and GPU. They could definitely hit next gen levels if they go that direction. It would be quite the departure from the direction they went with PS4, but perhaps it makes since this time around.

I honestly didn't even consider splitting things up. If they split things up and give us 32GB of GDDR6 and a NVMe slot, then I would be very happy with that device. Even if they ship with a SATA M.2 chip, it would still be about 5 times faster than the current HDD. With a smaller than normal increase in RAM, that would make load times even shorter than this gen, and vastly improve streaming.

Looking at things this way, I can get excited for a 2019 - 2020 PS5!