| Tsaki said: And even the 4GB could be accurate. I heard somewhere that Mark Cerny convinced Sony to put 8GB GDDR5 at the last minute. |
I could be mistaken, but the rumors were that sony was set on going with GDDR5. But a the time the biggest memory package GDDR5 were 256MB chips. Do the most tjey couls get was 4GB on their PCB. Also, aware of this unavailibility of GDDR5 ram at higher capacities MS built their hardware around DDR3 and that way had it locked down for 8GB. Luckily for sony though, somewhere around the tail end of 2012 512MB GDDR5 chips became available.
| KBG29 said: I am talking 7nm vs 7nm+. If they launch in 2019 it will be extremely earlier 7nm parts that will have to make sacrifices to make sure the first units are sustainable, meaning they won't get the full benefits on 7nm. A 2020 release would have more stable fabrication, and allow them to up the clocks, and get more chips that are clean enough to handle the task. By late 2021 or early 2022 7nm+ or 5nm if they decide to call it that will be available, and it will allow for some significant gains, and it will launch AMD's next gen GPU tech, which will be the foundation of AMD based graphics for years and years to come. This is absolutely the best time to launch, because they will be able to pair Ryzen, Next Gen, 64GB of RAM, and SSD, all techs that offer a next gen improvement over the PS4 tech. That will set them up very nicely for a PS5 Pro on 3nm. |
No... AMDs next gen GPU will be based on 7nm/7nm+ or any other itwration of 7nm that comes up. Snd its called Navi. Because its been announced already in a roadmap doesnt make it any less of a next gen GPU architecture.
Thats how it usually goes. Every node shrink sees a new generatiom of CPU amd GPU.
