PS5 vs XSeX: Understanding the Gap

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drkohler said:

zero129 said:

Here is post from another dev Remedy explaining how the PS5 SSD might not be as fast at loading as some people think.
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Sigh. (This will at least temporarily avoid your posting crap links). Take a pen and write this down at least 1000 times on every wall in your flat:

It is NOT about load times. It is about seamlessly streaming assets without the cpu taking any part of it.

Do you really think Cerny designed the entire chain of hardware (worth several Zen2 cores) just to load a game half a second faster than the competition (of which he had no knowledge at all when he figured out the hardware)?

On the storage front the Xbox Series X can do everything the Playstation 5 can do, just twice as slow, it's still stupidly fast however.
It still has hardware compression/decompression blocks to expedite memory transactions and free the CPU up.

In saying that, there is discussion that Microsoft's compression/decompression has the edge over Kraken.

Intrinsic said:

Have all the opinions you want. that's not my problem. Don't question my character or my motives though. That's taking it somewhere else.

And yes. The PS5 SSD would wipe the floor with the XSX SSD If we were talking about the console that had upwards of 24GB/32GB of RAM. That would mean like 28GB of data feeds to be sent. PS5 would do that in about 6 seconds, XSX would do that in about 12 seconds. That's a lot more obvious than what it is with them feeding 13.5GB of RAM.

You know what though...lets just agree to disagree.

The SSD isn't a replacement for RAM, including the SSD doesn't mean you have 24GB-32GB of "equivalent Ram".

The SSD just allows for more efficient use of RAM, it's the exact same situation the Nintendo 64 found itself in with it's inclusion of a super fast Cartridge... Which meant Developers didn't have to dump everything into RAM like the PS1, they could stream directly from the cart.

The Playstation 5 certainly has the advantage in this regard... But just like flops, it's really down to the developer on whether it will actually result in anything tangible.

What I find frustrating is that users are only focusing on the SSD which ultimately... Who gives a shit? What about 99% of the hardware that makes up the rest of the console?