PlayStation 4 gives up to 5.5GB of RAM to game developers

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kurasakiichimaru on 26 July 2013

Not really earth-shattering, I doubt devs would go and waste the entire RAM at this early part of the gen.

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ethomaz on 26 July 2013

Leadbetter?

I will wait more info guys.

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walsufnir on 26 July 2013

drkohler said:
So much nonsense being written here and in other forums. The situation is like this:
On a PS4 developer unit, you have 8G of ram divided into (numbers heavily rounded):
1G os
1.5G debug software
1G debug scratchpad
4.5G game (or 5.5G if using the debug scratchpad)
On a PS4 end user unit, you have:
1G os
5.5G game
1.5G unclear space (now os scratchpad space?) as there very likely isn't any debug software loaded
So on a PS4 end user unit, the ram limit is >= 5.5G for the game

Usually I appreciate your posts but this one... Unless you can prove it, then devkits usually are equipped with more ram than the retail console. That's where the 1.5g debug seems to be wrong. But either way I think 5.5g is still enough for nowadays games.

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riderz13371 on 26 July 2013

iceboy151 said:

walsufnir said:

iceboy151 said:
So this is the BIG news? I thought it was going to be much worse.

Like what?

Something that would hurt Sony hard. Where this would get people who got a PS4 to switch. But this isn't something that would persuade someone to switch.

I was expecting a Ram reduction or something lmao. The guy yesterday made it seem like it was "huge news". Or maybe they announce that they will use DDR3 Ram. Damn what an attention whore...he got us all excited (and scared) for nothing. Not to mention this isn't confirmed/denied.

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brendude13 on 26 July 2013

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pezus said:

I'm calling bullshit. There is just no way the OS is using that much. Unless they haven't showed us something unexpected.

Nope, I think they're were just lying, AS USUAL. And typically tellying the fanboys what they what to hear - 7GB RAM for games lol,...what a load of BS. And I would bet that this is only the begining of such annouments to leak out about the PS4.

Sony lied, despite never saying a single word about how much RAM is available to games?

Those sly bastards.

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walsufnir on 26 July 2013

riderz13371 said:

iceboy151 said:

walsufnir said:

iceboy151 said:
So this is the BIG news? I thought it was going to be much worse.

Like what?

Something that would hurt Sony hard. Where this would get people who got a PS4 to switch. But this isn't something that would persuade someone to switch.

I was expecting a Ram reduction or something lmao. The guy yesterday made it seem like it was "huge news". Or maybe they announce that they will use DDR3 Ram. Damn what an attention whore...he got us all excited (and scared) for nothing. Not to mention this isn't confirmed/denied.

This is a ram-reduction, if true. We are games-oriented and this reduces ram from 7g to 5.5g.

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ethomaz on 26 July 2013

walsufnir said:

drkohler said:
So much nonsense being written here and in other forums. The situation is like this:
On a PS4 developer unit, you have 8G of ram divided into (numbers heavily rounded):
1G os
1.5G debug software
1G debug scratchpad
4.5G game (or 5.5G if using the debug scratchpad)
On a PS4 end user unit, you have:
1G os
5.5G game
1.5G unclear space (now os scratchpad space?) as there very likely isn't any debug software loaded
So on a PS4 end user unit, the ram limit is >= 5.5G for the game

Usually I appreciate your posts but this one... Unless you can prove it, then devkits usually are equipped with more ram than the retail console. That's where the 1.5g debug seems to be wrong. But either way I think 5.5g is still enough for nowadays games.

drkohler said that because the DF article seems based in the Killzone documents that was running in a 8GB DevKit machine... DF didn't have access to the final devkit with 12GB and even most developer didn't received the final devkit.

The old OS used 1GB of the RAM... now the new OS (I think like Sony upgrade to 8GB they can use more RAM for the OS) is supposed by DF to use 2.5GB for OS.

But DF supposed that based in the Killzone running in the old devkit.

For now is just a wait...

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walsufnir said:

riderz13371 said:

I was expecting a Ram reduction or something lmao. The guy yesterday made it seem like it was "huge news". Or maybe they announce that they will use DDR3 Ram. Damn what an attention whore...he got us all excited (and scared) for nothing. Not to mention this isn't confirmed/denied.

This is a ram-reduction, if true. We are games-oriented and this reduces ram from 7g to 5.5g.

Well one source (my anus) said that only 2.75GB of RAM was available to game developers.

PS4 RAM DOUBLED CONFIRMED!