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thismeintiel on 16 April 2018
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AlfredoTurkey said:
KBG29 said:

Five years used to be a long time in tech, it is going slower, and slower now. If PS4 does launch with the specs shown, in 2020, PS4 to PS5 will be by far the smallest gap between PlayStations preformancewise in the history of the brand. Then say you want a PS6 in 2025, the will be an even smaller gap between platforms.

Unless some new form of fabrication becomes viable for mass market, new generations should be taking longer and long. There is no reason to split up userbases, and force consumers to go to new platforms if their is no justifiable performance improvement. Your average Joe consumer, already questioned why they had to buy a PS4/XBO, when they can't hardly tell the difference between PS4 and PS5, what makes you think they are going to upgrade in droves.

It doesn't matter, none of this matters. Five years is forever... period. As I said, a Jr high school student should not get a console at launch and then be forced into using that same console when he's in his freshman year in college. That's just fucking ridiculous anyway you cut it.

I'm with you, man.  And this whole tech is moving slower is a ridiculous point.  We already have a GPU, the Vega 64 (something that they are aiming to make a 7nm version of later this year), that is ~6.8x more powerful than the one found in the OG PS4.  And that's just using Tflop numbers, alone, without considering the improvements in architecture.  It's probably closer to 7x-7.5x more powerful.  Then, you add in the fact that Sony is rumored to be making something more of a hybrid GPU, with improvements from Navi being thrown in.  Even with a couple CUs deactivated and/or underclocked, it probably will remain ~7x the power.

Now, that's a little under what the jump from last gen to this one was, but not by much.  It's also important to know what is within that jump.  Where the jump from PS3 just gave us an extra ~1.6 Tflops, this would give an extra ~10.2 Tflops.  The same goes for RAM.  Someone was saying that 16GB would be too little because how large the jump in RAM has been in previous gens.  But, if you actually look at what he was expecting, it's nuts.  From PS1 to PS2, we had a RAM increase of 12x.  That would mean 96 GB of RAM in the PS5!  From the PS2 to PS3, there was an increase of ~14x.  That would mean 112 GB of RAM in the PS5!!  Now, this gen we saw a jump of ~15.5x.  That would mean 124 GB of RAM in the PS5!!!  Max we are seeing in the PS5 is 32GB, which is only a 4x jump.  However, that extra 24GB of RAM would truly be bigger than the extra 7.5GB we got this gen.