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EricHiggin on 17 October 2019
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Pemalite said:
EricHiggin said:

I thought it was that it would have the fastest SSD, compared to a PC equivalent in price to the PS5. So how fast is the SSD in a $500 PC generally? The PS5 will be faster than that, but won't make it the fastest SSD on the market by late 2020. It may however be faster than anticipated, due to it's customization and integration into the console.

Sony made no mention of price.

But a Ryzen 3000 chip on x570 has 24x PCI-E 4.0 lanes... So you could theoretically do 48GB/s. - But a chunk of those lanes will be for the GPU if you have a discreet card so around 32GB/s is the more realistic number... Which is still insanely fast and much faster than a PCI-E 4.0 NVMe drive.

At the end of the day, there is no "special customization". - Sony will be limited by the PCI-E Specification, SSD (Likely Phison) controller and AMD's chipset/IO  technology.

No they didn't, but do we really expect it to be anymore than $500? Would it be highly likely that $600 would be the absolute max they would dare to go? So a $600 PC then? How much faster would the SSD be in a $600 PC vs a $500 PC?

Well what's the difference between customization vs "special customization"?



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