Well, here we are. 6 years after my prediction. I was going for 12-14 teraflops of the old architecture. Well, It´s 10, but performance wise, a 8 TF 5700 is faster than a near 13 Teraflops VEGA 64. In that sense, even though the Xbox is faster, the PS5 achieved a little more than what I thought with a 10 TF RDNA2 GPU
kind of sad that we have only 16 GB of RAM, but understanding memory as a hole, That 16 GB can be filled much much faster than before with that amazing I/O subsistem. So those 16 will behave like we have more RAM.
3D sound is a nice upgrade too.
And jumping from a jaguar core to a Zen 2 3.5 Ghz core, well, it´s almost the same as the xbox CPU.
So Sony established a base from which it can grow.
They have the CPU, The sound, and the I/O for the future. Replacing only the GPU side, with a wider one, they can make a PS5 pro easily. And they can sell the PS5 now for less than the xbox if they want to.
So despite the xbox is 15-20% faster gpu wise, I think the ps5 is good enough to compete being the games what´s more important. Microsoft is still showing minecraft and they always have the same halo, gears, forza thing. They need to get more creative. The senua game looks awesome but the gameplay of the 1st is not that great despite great art and design. They designed a better machine than I thought they would in 2014.
I recognize that I would have prefered a faster GPU than what Microsoft has, but it´s not bad at all for 4k console gaming.
Edit: Oh I forgot. what I don´t like is an SSD with only 825 GB of storage. I mean, how many 150 GB games can we put there? 5 and the machine is full. Hate that.
