PS5 Confirmed Backward Compatibility

[Pemalite]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Pemalite said:

To be fair... The Xbox One was doing multi-tasking via snap (Now gone), Kinect and running multiple Operating Systems all at once via Virtualization, so Microsoft actually got allot of usability out of only 3GB, it's still more memory than Windows 7 will use though.

Sony tends to be a little less efficient on the OS front, it's Microsoft's expertise after-all...
But the Playstation 4 still needed a separate 256MB/1024MB DDR3 memory pool and separate ARM processor for background tasks and even still necessitated the need for 3.5GB of GDDR5 Ram for front-end stuff. - Not sure if they have given back that extra .5GB of Ram yet though?

The issue is... Microsoft and Sony need to make forward projections on Ram requirements for 10~ years, 3GB was a massive amount in 2013 for an OS, background tasks, apps... Today? Not so much. My Phone has more Ram.

Your phone doesn't need nearly as much for the OS. That's for the Apps, especially games, to use.

Also, 3GB wasn't even massive in 2013, Win 8.1 already used about as much, and that came out first.

The thing with Android/iOS/Windows is that allot of their Ram consumption is due to caching and background tasks.
Thus my phone can and does use more than 3GB for just the OS.

Windows 8.1, heck even Windows 10 will happily run on 2GB of Ram if it's backed by an SSD.