sales2099 said:
In this breakdown apparently the velocity architecture handily beats out the kraken. And the ssd will mostly be leveraged on 1st party exclusives, because other consoles and low end PCs must be taken into account. |
No. This is the kinda misinformation that people are pushing.
Velocity architecture and Kraken are not the same things. PS5 will use Kraken for all its compression natively. MS would've both BCpack for textures and whatever else it's using for everything else. BCpack is the only thing there that beats Krakenbut specifically when it comes to texture compression.
However, this doesn't matter, and its thanks to this that the XSX can have a theoretical throughput o up to 4.8GB/s equivalent of bandwidth through its RAW 2.4GB/s SSD line to the APU. It doesn't matter because thePS5 has a RAW 5.5GB/s line to the APU, and with compression, it can be moving the equivalent of 9GB/s worth of data through that line.
And this is only considering SSD throughput and compression. There is a lot of things sony built into their APU that accelerates the entre processor getting data through these pipes that isn't in the XSX.
| KratosLives said: Will the ssd advantage be offset by the memory speed advantage of the series x? Will be interesting to see how kraken compression compares to the one on x. |
Neither would impact the other in that sense. Firstly, the SSD doesn't affect memory bandwidth, it just ties to memory utilization and elective availability. In both those areas, the PS5 would be better than the XSX.
The XSX memory advantage isn't what I would call an advantage, but rather what I would refer to as necessary. It does have 18% more GPU compute after all. It would need more memory bandwidth to feed all the extra compute units with work and assets. Also, there is a major issue with the RAM in XSX that isn't being discussed by MS (obviously). That issue means that you aren't going to be getting that 560GB/s bandwidth as advertised. But what you do end up getting though is still going to be at least 50GB/s more than what you would have on the PS5.
But that's another story.
