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Hardstuck-Platinum on 22 August 2025
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Chrkeller said:
curl-6 said:

There are things other than bandwidth can limit framerate, from CPU load to pixel/polygon fillrate.

It will depend on the game of course; in the right circumstances (say, a game that pushes a ton of alpha transparencies at a high resolution) bandwidth could become the limiting factor, but I expect that in most ports of PS/Xbox games, it'll be more the CPU that necessitates 30fps.

Sure, but we are talking Elden, 7 Remake, Cyber, Madden, etc.  All 30 fps, I can't fathom the CPU being why.....  wait for it....  memory bandwidth is.  

Something like Snake Eater 3, yeah, the CPU is going to take hit.  But until stuff like Snake Eater, Wilds or Outlaws are out, it is hard to determine CPU clock speed impact. 

But we do have a spread of ps4 games....    you think the S2's CPU is a bottleneck with ps4 games?  I don't.  It is the memory bandwidth.  

I think your right. It's the only thing that can explain Elden ring running especially badly in handheld mode, but apparently much better in docked mode. The PS4 has 178GB's memory bandwidth and that's really good for a 2013 console. The Switch 2 bandwidth in handheld is only 68GB's, and docked is 102GB's. Big difference to PS4 in handheld but the CPU difference to PS4 in handheld isn't that big. It's the only explanation there is.