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Forums - Sony Discussion - BREAKING NEWS: PS4 devkits 1.5GB RAM!!!! [UPDATE]

Kasz216 on 25 February 2013
Colocho said:
So if true, and those demos were created using gimped tools (1.5G), does it mean the final game wil have "sub par" graphics or can they still use the improved dev kits??? (Sorry, not very knowlegable in the tech field)


Likely.... neither.  Or at least... not sub par compaired to games released shortly afterwords since graphics always increase as a gen goes on.

Killzone isn't the most Ram dependent game out there.   

It has relativly few assets so it needs relativly little ram to look it's "best".

The backgrounds are actully popped out 2D.

 

Ironically the most impressive games graphiciaclly from a technical viewpoint might not end up being the best looking games.



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Kasz216 on 25 February 2013

Also when we're talking about "RAM for games"....

People do know that games need GPU ram and CPU ram and graphics cards tend to have a ram maximum right?



Porcupine_I on 25 February 2013
osed125 said:

Kinda hard to imagine how all this multitasking things take 4 GB of RAM. I still think this is way to much for games atm. Like disolitude was saying, Battlefield 3 on ultra takes 2 GB (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

But either way, 4 GB is really a lot. I want to see how games (especially 1st party ones) will use all this RAM (if they ever use it all).

If you build it, they will use it



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kljesta64 on 25 February 2013

they said vram its not the same as ram :S



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Aldro on 25 February 2013

This should mean that the launch games indeed will have a pretty big azz difference from the mid-late games.



ethomaz on 25 February 2013

The OP title is wrong... It's 1.5GB for VRAM alone... the Devkit have more RAM.



Aldro on 25 February 2013
ethomaz said:
The OP title is wrong... It's 1.5GB for VRAM alone... the Devkit have more RAM.

But

http://beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1712366&postcount=111

 

1.5 available for graphics, thats kinda' what im getting at.



Alby_da_Wolf on 28 February 2013

"1.5GB RAM for graphics" doesn't say anything about main RAM size and total RAM available for games.
1.5GB just for graphics is quite a normal size, considering native res will be at most 1080p, but now, with 8GB total, they can increase it to 3GB without any problem and still reserving to games more main RAM than what can be available to them on 32bit versions of Windows.



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9087 on 28 February 2013

I think KZ3 was mostly targeting 2GB of RAM... now they have way more to work with