| sales2099 said: Bold: Two seemingly contradictory points that show you definitely looking at this from a negative view. Almost like you have a pre determined narrative... I can imagine LOU maxes out benchmarks because PS4 can handle it. LOU 2 is what it is because the PS4 Pro is not a well designed console. It struggles to hit benchmarks like Xbox X easily can. I imagine it’s the same scenario with PS5 and Series X where Sony didn’t think to give it enough power to make way for a fast SSD. Series X has more of a shot to do both. |
Whut? SSDs are a huge benefit in low powered laptops with integrated graphics. What the heck does power have to do with I/O speed. The PS3 would have benefited from SSD. Skyrim for example wouldn't have run into trouble, using the SSD as cache for the changes made to the world.
If anything Series X has less of a shot since it has the same memory but a slower SSD and no direct to GPU pathway, thus can't save as much on RAM by utilizing the SSD as much to lower the amount that has to stay present in memory.
RAM use is linked to storage I/O speed. PC compensates for slow storage speeds by using lots of RAM. My laptop has 22 GB of ram even though it has an SSD. 16GB of system ram, 53% in use just for browsing. Cache, cache and more cache. When ram was still an issue on PC swap files were used. But oh boy, when system RAM ran low and the swap file (on HDD) got used the system crawled to a halt.
More power means you need more RAM for bigger screen buffers and bigger textures. Thus by any means, MS didn't think to give it enough RAM or I/O speed to lessen the burden on RAM to make full use of the power.
A useless comparison
7th Gen, avg 100 MB/s HDD speed, 22.4 GB/s RAM speed (360) RAM is 230 times faster
8th Gen, avg 100 MB/s HDD speed, 176 GB/s RAM speed (ps4) RAM is 1800 times faster
9th Gen, PS5 upto 9 GB/s SSD speed, 448 GB/s RAM is 50 times faster
9th Gen, SX upto 5 GB/s SSD speed, up to 560 GB/s RAM is 112 times faster
Looks like PS5 is in a great position to augment RAM (the biggest bottleneck in any game design) with SSD but Series X still has a better ratio than 7th gen.
