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Dark_Feanor on 05 April 2018
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JRPGfan said:

Semiaccurate has never said how fast things will be (afaik), thats always others that are speculating.
Semiaccurate basically said something like 8 custum Zen cores + Navi GPU architecture where confirmed by them.

[1]"There is no reason Sony would bet on new architecture at this point of the generation."

I dont know what to say..... why wouldnt you make use of better technology?
If AMD keeps makeing new CPU & GPUs, and they get better (stronger & more effecient), why would you not want to use that?

Also I doubt even with 8 Zen cores + Navi GPU that it ll be more than 450$.

 

"Third, even if the PS5 GPU is bigger, how the hell will it leverage bandwidth speed? GDDR5X?  That would be a minuscule increase for an extra price"

[2]You know that GDDR5X allow potentially double the data moved at same time, as GDDR5 right?
Right now they dont run at same clock speeds, but this allows them to overall still be much faster.

Nvidia 1080's use this and have Memory Bandwidth of 480+ GB/s.

GDDR5X or GDDR6 should be more than plenty for a home console.

[1]: Have you heard about the CELL BE, SPC unities and Blu Ray, or the 3RLOD?

I´m not saying Sony wouldn´t bet on better/newer technologies. I was saying that the big 3 won´t gamble on unproven technologies. They won´t use the most recent micro-architecture nor the smallest transistors.

[2]: GDDR5X is a stop gap until GDDR6 and it has been used in only top-tier graphics cards, it has nowhere near the 2x performance of GDDR5. It does not have the mass production volume of GDDR5 and might never have, it could still be expensive for years until it is phased out.

Also, the Xbox One X has proven it is possible to achieve 4K with buffed up GDDR5. 

As I said, Sony could have a killing machine this year at $500 or $450, without going for new architectures.