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

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fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

GDDR7 would be amazing. But I doubt JEDEC would have gotten off their ass and ratified the standard by 2020 considering how long we were sitting around with GDDR5.

That may have used to be true in the past but now I'm not so sure anymore since there's nothing stopping their recent momentum. (industry on the verge of transitioning to EUV, Rambus reuniting with JEDEC(!) and higher demand than ever for higher performance DRAM) Before memory standards used to have a much lower turnover rate but currently their bringing out new memory standards faster than they did in the past. GDDR3 standard wasn't developed by JEDEC since they adopted it from ATi Technologies at the time, the specifications for the GDDR4 standard was released in 2006 by JEDEC, GDDR5 standard was released in 2007, GDDR5X standard was released in 2016 and the GDDR6 standard released a year after that. Consequently the original HBM standard was adopted in 2013, HBM 2 standard was finalized in 2016 but HBM 3 standard could get finalized by as early as the end of this year ... 

The final DDR5 standard is about to be published this year too ... 

While the DDR5 standard is supposed to be published this year, don't count on it for the next console. DDR5 is late, it was supposed to get finalised in 2016 already, with market release in 2020. In other words, they are 2 years late on that plan already, and from final specs to the released product there are always a couple of years ( due to how lithography works, that can't be shortened by more than a few months if they're lucky). Plus, any new standard is much more expensive than the established one, making them more unsuitable for consoles.

Finally, GDDR gets developed from DDR, and a GDDR standard deriving from DRR5 will not come before DDR5 is released because GDDR is basically DDR modified for high bandwith. Just have a look how long it took for GDDR6 to be developed from DDR4. While there can be an improved GDDR7 in the next years, that one would still be derived from DDR4, not 5 (just as GDDR2 and 3 are derived from DDR2 and GDDR4 and 5 are derived from DDR3)

In short, don't count on DDR5 before 2021 earliest and any GDDR derived from it for about 2023, and pricely viable for a console not before 2025.