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masschamber on 04 December 2011
PhalanxCO said:
Everyone please back away from any bridges you may be about to jump off of.

A) This rumor is complete BS
B) 768MBytes of eDRAM would destroy any processor on the planet, but the chip would be almost 15 square centimeters (yes centimeters, not millimeters).
C) Even if this rumor had a grain of truth to it, it's far more likely that the amount of eDRAM should be 768 Mbits, not bytes. This equals 96MB, which is a much more reasonable amount. Also, this is just the embedded memory (i.e. L3 cache) and not the system memory.

But, all in all, this rumor is laughable at best.

not to mention the heat generated on that much ram on die  would probably melt the plastic case

even 96 MB would be crazy amounts of l3 cache, unless they mean total embedded between the cpu and gpu, 32 MB l3 and 64MB on the gpu would be absolutely phonemenal,

plus this rumor is just silly

one other thing, I bet sony doesn't reveal the full ps4 specs, much like sony unvieled only some of the psvita's specs, we'll probably know the processor families and the amount of ram and nothing else.  From the viewpoint of the manufacuterer's their is little insentive to release spces as on paper to a layman they are not going to look like a similar leap to last generation, HERP TEH 360 haz tHe 3.2 JigaHURTS processor deh 720 is duh same LAME



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bigjon on 04 December 2011
UltimateUnknown said:
768MB ram is just unbelievable, there's being economic and then there's not even trying. My craptop has 4 GB DDR2 RAM, what the heck. Perhaps the architecture of it will be significantly better than the current consoles, but still I am sceptical about this. And I don't have much knowledge about computer language either, so perhaps they are doing something right.

I mean they said they were going for the hardcore guys, not just nintendo fans. We all know Nintendo fans will buy it regardless of what specs the console has (what I did with Wii), but when the 720/PS4 comes out, it could be very hard for them pull over the hardcore crowd. One more year though, still have time to improve.



lol, not all ram is created equal. The 768 MB is edram. The stuff is blazing fast. The 360 only had 10mb of it. I highly doupt this to be true, 768 edram would be too expensive and would be about 20x more power than the 360s. I think the 768 like someone said in the comments is Mb which would be like 96MB. That would make sense. Also

 

 



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Millenium on 04 December 2011

768 eDRAM, that'd be damn expensive for a console :P

Proccessor and video card definitely need to be above 360 standards though, it's 2011, I love the machine, but the Xbox 360 is outdated hardware fair and square.



UltimateUnknown on 04 December 2011
bigjon said:
UltimateUnknown said:



lol, not all ram is created equal. The 768 MB is edram. The stuff is blazing fast. The 360 only had 10mb of it. I highly doupt this to be true, 768 edram would be too expensive and would be about 20x more power than the 360s. I think the 768 like someone said in the comments is Mb which would be like 96MB. That would make sense. Also

 

 

Wow thanks for clearing that up, seems like we could have a pretty powerful machine.



 

Wappy on 04 December 2011

Rumours are rumours. Enough said.



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Shinobi-san on 04 December 2011

So much misinformation in this thread



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dark_gh0st_b0y on 04 December 2011
VGKing said:
oni-link said:
yeah...I believe it...the same way they said that the 3DS is technically equivalent to the PSP!!! (sarcasm to those who can't tell) I'll wait until the system gets released before believing these said rumours!!!


Technically the 3DS isn't more more powerful than a PSP. With 3D turned on the resolution is cut in half. So the 3DS and PSP are very similar in terms of power.

well, just from Monster Hunter and RE, and many other games, 3DS seems to have clearly better graphics, and 3D makes them even better

I didn't know the 3D outputs half the resoution, everything seems much clearer to me with the 3D turn on, why is that?

 

about the topic, I'm completely confused, is this rumor good or bad!?



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Roma on 04 December 2011
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
VGKing said:
oni-link said:
yeah...I believe it...the same way they said that the 3DS is technically equivalent to the PSP!!! (sarcasm to those who can't tell) I'll wait until the system gets released before believing these said rumours!!!


Technically the 3DS isn't more more powerful than a PSP. With 3D turned on the resolution is cut in half. So the 3DS and PSP are very similar in terms of power.

well, just from Monster Hunter and RE, and many other games, 3DS seems to have clearly better graphics, and 3D makes them even better

I didn't know the 3D outputs half the resoution, everything seems much clearer to me with the 3D turn on, why is that?

 

about the topic, I'm completely confused, is this rumor good or bad!?

Dude Nintendo has tricked us in to believing that those games look far better than those on PSP. Technically its just a PSP with an extra screen and 3D as an extra!



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gumby_trucker on 05 December 2011

how about the RAM the 3DS has?
it's called FCRAM. Don't remember the exact specs, but it's said to be blazing fast, plus not as unbelievable as having such an insane amount of eDRAM. IIRC the 3DS has 128 MB of the stuff. It's similar to DDR 3 memory but offers some unique features that aren't found in any other kind of RAM currently on the market, which have the potential to give huge performance boosts if used correctly. I seem to recall a developer mentioning something about the Wii U having a unique memory architecture that once figured out was fantastic.

I'm may be completely off, but one of the things I love about Nintendo is their clever use of unconventional hardware. I wouldn't rule out 768MB of RAM until we know more about the architecture.

just my $ 0.02



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dark_gh0st_b0y on 05 December 2011
Roma said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
VGKing said:
oni-link said:
yeah...I believe it...the same way they said that the 3DS is technically equivalent to the PSP!!! (sarcasm to those who can't tell) I'll wait until the system gets released before believing these said rumours!!!


Technically the 3DS isn't more more powerful than a PSP. With 3D turned on the resolution is cut in half. So the 3DS and PSP are very similar in terms of power.

well, just from Monster Hunter and RE, and many other games, 3DS seems to have clearly better graphics, and 3D makes them even better

I didn't know the 3D outputs half the resoution, everything seems much clearer to me with the 3D turn on, why is that?

 

about the topic, I'm completely confused, is this rumor good or bad!?

Dude Nintendo has tricked us in to believing that those games look far better than those on PSP. Technically its just a PSP with an extra screen and 3D as an extra!

I cannot tell if you are sarcastic or not  : P



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