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9087 on 20 February 2013

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/02/20/game-informer-editors-react-to-playstation-4-news.aspx

It may not generate the headlines, but the biggest news for me was the 8GB of unified DDR5 RAM, which is a huge leap forward from what developers had to work with on the PlayStation 3. This should give creators a fertile technological playground on which they can make impressive gains in not only graphical fidelity, but artificial intelligence as well

8GB of GDDR5 system memory – Eight gigs of ultra-fast internal RAM is much better than the 512MB that developers had to work with on the PS3. This is a huge win for creators. Along with the easy-to-use architecture, this should make PS4 much more developer-friendly than its notoriously difficult predecessor.

The silicon is pretty darn close to what the rumors had it pegged as, with the crucial exception of a full 8GB of super-high-speed shared GDDR5 RAM. That's absolutely huge, and should make it both easy to develop for (a massive improvement over the developer-unfriendly PS3 hardware)

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JWeinCom on 20 February 2013

Yep. It's a lot of RAM.

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9087 on 20 February 2013

Rumor has it that Xbox next console will have significantly less

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walsufnir on 20 February 2013

9087 said:
Rumor has it that Xbox next console will have significantly less

In size no, in speed yes.

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JWeinCom on 21 February 2013

Did Sony at any point say how much RAM the OS will use? As a Nintendo fan I'm a bit worried this will be a problem for multiplats :/

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theprof00 on 21 February 2013

hoq much does 8gb gddr5 go for?

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drkohler on 21 February 2013

theprof00 said:
hoq much does 8gb gddr5 go for?

You won't find GDDR5 prices on the spot market so it's anyone's guess.

I'd say $60-$120 depending on when and how many Sony ordered.

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cbarroso09 on 21 February 2013

it is expectd to run games plus OS all at the same time. But it is a hell lot. 1GB od Wii U seems really low. But then that depends on the kind of system. Some PC needs more RAM than oothers, and some have more RAM than they need.