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SvennoJ on 09 March 2020
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Pemalite said:

ESRAM, GDDR5, Flops, ACE Units were the big talking points at the start of the 8th gen, especially on these forums.

Lockhart will do fine, if you don't think it will be a suitable console... Then as a consumer the solution is simple.
Do. Not. Buy. It. Buy the Xbox Series X or Playstation 5 instead.

Ah yeah the memory speed war. Adding ESRAM speeds to DDR3 speed at the start of last gen to make it look closer to PS4.

However if everything else is the same it is a use-able measure. If rumors are true

PS5 will be 76.6% of Series X (smaller difference than ps4 and XBox One, which was 71%)
Lockhart 33% of Series X, 43% of PS5

Or

Series X is 3x Lockhart and 1.3x PS5
PS5 is 2.3x Lockhart (about the same difference as ps4 pro to base ps4)

Of course XBox One had other benefits compared to ps4, as well as the ps4 pro had to ps4.
It will be a weird start of a new gen if all these rumors are true.

XBox One X was 4.2x XBox One with other improvements as well. And that had games running in native 4K (or very close) on XBox One X while the XBox One was struggling below 1080p with other things turned down as well. So maybe 3x difference is enough for 1080p vs 4K. PS4 pro couldn't get past 1440p vs 1080p ps4 with 2.3x increase (plus boosted cpu)

It's a shame no matter how you look at it. The pro machines were just used for higher resolution, which Lockhart seems to pass on to the new generation with its existence.