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Intrinsic on 27 January 2019
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Trumpstyle said:
Intrinsic said:

 

 

As fr your storage thing...... You d realize that an Nvme drive cost about 120% more than a standard SATA SSD drive right?

e.g Right now on amazon 1TB M.2 Sata SSD cost $135 meanwhile a 1TB M.2 NVme cost $330.

Its possible that sony and ms can et 1TB Sata SSDs for around $45 - $55 in 2020. It however is impossible that they will et NVME SSDs for that price in 2020. 

No NVMe SSDs? No HBCC. Then again there is another way all this can be solved but hat is not what you are talking about.

Yes my TF number is based on Vega, I don't expect Navi to improve the TF number but to improve perf/TF.

 

Well you shouldn't do that.

The two things Navi is expected to improve is scalability (so no more 64CU limit) and efficiency (less power required to hit higher frequencies).   

zorg1000 said:

I could be wrong but that honestly doesnt sound like that big of a jump. 6x CPU/GPU and 2x RAM when compared to base models (less when compared to Pro/X).

Its actually a lot.

On the CPU side a 6 times improvement means the major thing devs complained about the current gen consoles is no more. And the CPU pretty much defines what is possible in game design as opposed t how a game looks which is the GPU. It shapes game design industry wide because n matter how powerful CPUs are n the PC side of thins devs still make their games around the constraints of the consoles.

As for the GPU, we are talking abut going from 1.8TF to 10TF+. And nothing everything in a graphic pipeline scales with resolution. A good way to look at it is this, look at say GOW/Horizon/Spiderman. Now picture those "made" exclusively for hardware that is 6-8 times more powerful.

As for RAM..... lets just say RAM is one of those thins that doesn't need to scale up as much as it used to before. 16GB f RAM is a lot if used exclusively for the games. Of the 8GB available in the PS4/XB1 only 5GB of that RAM is used for games. The rest is for the OS. So having 16GB dedicated to games is a 3 time increase and thats a lot. And I expect them t also have 8GB of LPDDR4 ram just for the OS. If anything what is more important (and as sony already hinted ) when it comes to Ram is bandwidth. There are those that even feel having 16GB of RAM is excessive.