| CuCabeludo said: Sony big shots are saying it. A heavily customized SSD with higher bandwidths you can see on PC. They are straight up lying then. |
Yes they are certainly being disingenuous.
In saying that, they are trying to amp-up/promote their console, so there is always dubious claims everytime we enter a new console generation... The frustrating part is that everyone tends to take it as gospel and thus believe it.
PCI-E 4.0 NVMe drives will theoretically top out at around 8GB/s of sequential reads, which is likely what the Playstation 5 will have, taking advantage of AMD's latest technology. - That is stupidly fast whichever way you cut the cake considering most SSD setups today top out at around 4GB/s thanks to PCI-E 3.0 bandwidth limitations.
But the PC can do PCI-E 4.0 x16, and it can do RAID. - Epyc comes with 128x PCI-E 4.0 lanes, which is a theoretical max of 256GB/s of aggregate PCI-E bandwidth available for an SSD setup. - Which is simply an impossible number for a console to cost effectively have for next-gen.
PCI-E 5.0 will likely be available in 2022, Intel will support it with LGA 4677 sockets... And that could theoretically take it to 512GB/s or half a Terabyte per second.
PCI-E 6.0 is being ratified right now with system implementations after that, which will likely double things again.
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