These people really have no idea what they're doing. They couldn't program decent fur if their life depended on it.

Good, those are things that every Computer Science/Engineer learn in the first semester of the course. And you only really understand by the graduation, and may be never work with it.

Any way, GDDR 5 has nothing special, it just faster than normal DDR 3, but it´s interesting a game studio working that close to the metal for optmisation, that is the benefit of working in only one platform.

For me the guys at Epic and Cryteck are the real gods.

But, but... the X1 has the super duper mustard sauce!

But, but ... what this coment has any thing to do with the thread??

Please, deliberate or be reported.

Memory Architecture and Systems is barely covered in intro series, and system specific in upper graduate courses but we are talking a select few universities and this is commercial system specific hardware. These magical PS4 optimization courses wouldn't exist cause they wouldn't have books, projects, or professors.

The only way you would learn this is through handons practice.

It means this is how hardware works. Theres no special sauces or magical high end pc fetches from the cloud. My point is this is real hardware talk and not PR spinning. I am ridiculing that.

Huh? You have six cores and hundreds of tasks, You better figure out a very clever way how these six cores interact with all those tasks without blocking each other (too much). Add the problem that you have two different L2 caches and you better make your task switching algorithms very, very clever...

What I am puzzled at is some of their methology, though. "Make a rapid prototype and iterate the hell out of it" doesn't really sound like a good idea to me. And the method of memory management is equally puzzling at some points. Then again, I've never programmed anything that needed more than one "garbage in - garbage out) task, so the results speak for ND, obviously.

Crysis 3 and Farcry 3 were some of the worst optimized games I ever had to torture my GPU with.They may be good at utilizing new tech but they absolutely suck at optimizing for performance.