| DonFerrari said: As Pema said raid SSD drives (althought there is already commercial drives over 7Gb/s) and RAM Drives. But the main problem as put by some dev (like Epic boss) is that the computer itself isn't programmed to take advantage of the fast I/O yet. |
In the case of a Ram drive, it completely bypasses the I/O that SSD's connect with, removing any of those technical limitations.
But a Ram drive is volatile unlike NAND which is non-volatile.
padib said:
Right. That's why I asked for an example, because from what I understood from the Linus video is that the limited I/O pipe in a PC (even Linux) the actual throughput of the AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor is not 15.5GBps but perhaps half of that. |
We need to keep in mind also that there is different types of "tasks". - It is all well and good to proclaim you are the "speed king" in sequential reads... But if your performance tanks doing a random write and your application requires lots of random writes, then sequential reads are actually a useless metric.
The messaging I am trying to build however across the forums is that...
People need to stop grabbing one number or terminology and ignoring the rest of the system... A console or PC is functionally a heap of different parts cohesively working together... And only using terms like "8GB GDDR5" or "Teraflops" or "SSD" without understanding their fundamental implications to rendering a game is doing a disservice to the amount of engineering that gets put into a console.
The Playstation 5 has so much more hardware behind the SSD and so much more to offer that we need to move past the SSD advertised feature and start asking the question of what those other components are going to mean for gaming? Because honestly that's not really happening... It honestly just feels like a pissing match to see who has the bigger wang.
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