| Straffaren666 said: Though, I agree with you that the leak most likely is a hoax. For instance, I find it very unlikely with a 22Gbps GDDR6 memory speed, a 320bit memory bus and 20-24GB memory. AFAIK, the GDDR6 specifications only support up to 16Gbps. Sure, the specifications has some leeway and I believe Micron already is selling 18Gbps versions, but Sony has been quite conservative when it comes to memory speeds before and I find it very unlikely they would take the risk of overclocking the memory so high on a mass market product like the PS5. |
There are even 20Gbs versions.... but yh thats not what we will see in these consoles. However there are some things to consider..
Right now 1GB of GDDR5 from 6Gbs -8Gbs all have a bulk pricing (2000 units) of around $6/chip. For 1GB GDDR6 that range from 12Gbs to 14Gbs is between $9 - $11/chip.
Now even if soy and MS aredoing "super bulk" orders (literally in the millons) that will only further bring the prices down by say about 20 - 30%. But then there is also the fact that sony/ms won't be using 1GB modules but will be using 2GB modules, which cost more than a single 1GB module but less than two 1GB modules.
Basically, if we assume that doing million scale type ordes for 14Gbs 2GB GDDR6 ram means they spend around $12/chip, then 16GB/20GB/24GB will cost them $96/$120/$144 respectively........ just for RAM alone. To put this in context the PS4 RAM budget back in 2013 was around $88. At around $12/2GB chip, this is why it would make more sense adding 4GB of DDR4 ram to 16GB of GDDR6 to have a total of 20GB of RAM.
