| Chrkeller said: I do think people are misunderstanding vram. The size is how much can be stored and bandwidth is how fast data can be loaded and unloaded from the vram. The ps4 was 176 gb/s and the ps5 is 448 gb/s. That was a massive jump. Don't get me wrong the switch to S2 is an absurd jump. But I think people are focused way, way, way too much on size of the ram and are ignoring bandwidth. One of the reasons the Ally and Deck are limited in resolution and fps is because both of those require high memory bandwidths. |
Switch's current bandwidth is 25.6GB/s. Whereas this rumor is suggesting 120GB/s based on the spec.
That's a larger leap than 176GB/s to 448GB/s. Add that to it being a jump from 4GB to 12 GB (where PS4 was 8GB to 16GB) and I think you see the idea. Switch to Switch 2, based on this rumor, would be a larger leap than PS4 to PS5 in percentage increase. As, bandwidth wise, PS5 is a 254% increase over PS4 whereas Switch 2 would be (according to this rumor) a 468% increase. In capacity, RAM doubled from PS4 to PS5 and tripled from Switch to Switch 2 (according to the rumor)
Which is fantastic. Switch 2 may be closer to the PS5 than the Switch was to the PS4. Which is just going to make porting things easier.
