JRPGfan on 18 March 2020
| BraLoD said: I still can't believe both stuck with those RAMs. MS got fast and slow mixed, Sony got unified average. Both only 16Gb. This seriously sucks. |
ram was used to "store" data you needed quick access too, you couldnt affoard to wait on your slow mechanical hard drive to get.
Thats no longer a issue, with how quick (esp sony's) SSD is.
This drastically reduces the amount of actual ram needed, when you run games.
It might even effect sizes of games, where they might have duplicates of data,
thats mixed in with differnt parts, so they "could" be loaded like this into ram.
Stuff like that will be gone with next gen.
These SSD are almost like virtual ram in themselves, you just go directly to the SSD to load stuff, isntead of first loading it into your ram.
^ atleast I think thats what cerny was saying.
