| Nate4Drake said: My 2 cents : PS5 will have at least 24GB of total system RAM, no way it can be 16GB, considering XBox One X has 12 ;) My guess, PS5 will have 24~32 GB of total system RAM. The GPU will be amazing, many of you will be surprised. |
Don't set yourself up for disappointment.
Yes, 16 GB may seem little since the XBox One X has 12 GB and the PS4 itself had 8 GB. However, the Xbox One X is a premium product which is paying a huge extra for all those memory nodes, which simply isn't doable for a $399 console. There won't be enough improvements on memory nodes to warrant more than 16 GB at reasonable prices until 2020.
Besides, the PS5 would still proportionally be as good as the PS4 was back in 2013, compared to gaming PCs. The average gaming PC RAM was 3 GB in 2010, 6 GB in 2014 and about 9 GB right now, according to Steam's stats. 16 GB is a huge plus over those numbers, and on all likehood will still be in 2020. More exotic numbers such as 18 or 20 GB would make little sense as well given the size of memory nodes and the number of ROPs of a GPU (with the possibility, of course, for separate nodes of cheaper memory for OS etc.).
