Conina on 04 May 2020
| vivster said: But I'm a bit stumped on this one. https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9144445 The problem is I'm not too familiar with the exact data flow between storage, RAM and VRAM while playing a game. Using an SSD as RAM or VRAM sounds a bit silly to me. That thing about decompression in the GPU sounds plausible but it feels like something that would be done in hardware and as such wouldn't have much of a performance impact. Does the VRAM even stream data directly from the storage? Seems like something I would load in RAM first based on predicting what I will need for the game. |
Maybe a 5,5GB/s SSD could replace ancient DDR2-RAM. But is that speed good enough for them?
Even my old dual channel DDR3 RAM can handle 5x of that:
And then we still have the latency: https://superuser.com/questions/1253125/ssd-vs-ram-whats-the-cost-durability-difference-and-limitation-to-using-ssd-as
