Rumor: PS4 has half the RAM, but faster and more efficient, vs. Xbox 720
- Posted January 16th, 2013 at 19:54 EDT by Kyle Prahl
- 18 Comments
The latest smattering of rumors regarding Sony's next-generation PlayStation paint a rosy picture of the system's potential performance, placing it alongside the Xbox 720 in technical circles of the Internet.
The details come courtesy of VGLeaks, which claims to have garnered exclusive information from developers in possession of PS4 alpha kits. The PS4's CPU supposedly sports four AMD x86 cores comprised of two pairs, each running at 3.2 GHz. Additional information on both the CPU and GPU is provided, but an important point of comparison with Durango specs appears under "Memory", where VGLeaks claims that the PS4 will carry at least 2 GB of RAM (possibly 4 GB). Snoops at NeoGAF have compared this number with the rumored 8 GB of RAM planned for Xbox 720.
However, an important distinction lies in the type of RAM on offer. Each of the PS4's 2-4 GB will be GDDR5 RAM, which is notably faster and more efficient at graphics processing than the DDR3 or DDR4 expected to feature in Xbox 720. NeoGAF techies estimate that this disparity will thus even out, with PS4's memory speed likely compensating for Xbox 720's larger amount (and vice versa)
The flow of rumors and interpretation is ongoing, so keep checking back to PSU as we monitor the situation and report the most important details to you.
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RyosukeG60 |
Solid_X_Snake- 8:31pm EST - January 16th, 2013
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Hey Kyle nice post, however I found just one problem with a point you were trying to make on the ram. The GDDR5 RAM that you said the ps4 possibly could have is graphics memory (video memory from the graphics card) and thus cannot be compared to ddr3 ram which is the normal memory sticks that OS's use, other than that great job!
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KyleOnTheRun
- 11:22pm EST - January 16th, 2013
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@1 Thanks for the feedback, Ryosuke. It is my understanding that these reports profess the PS3's GDDR5 RAM will be used for the same computing tasks that DDR also handles (beyond graphics processing as well). All details are up in the air at this point, so it's worth taking any reports with a grain of salt. I'm just calling out what others are claiming.
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BlindMango |
BlindMango- 11:23pm EST - January 16th, 2013
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Isn't this considered a rumor? Not a "report"?
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Syphon_Filter |
Syphon_Filter2- 1:42am EST - January 17th, 2013
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Oh my God! Iam so tired of these reports as everyday we are hearing a different. Why Sony doesn't tell everyone about PS4 and thats allllllllllllllllllllllllllll. Ehhh :D
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Ghost-Rhayne |
Ghost-Rhayne- 4:00am EST - January 17th, 2013
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@3 They are more or less used interchangeably in the gaming media.
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Nakatomi Uk |
Nakatomi_Uk- 5:56am EST - January 17th, 2013
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And theres me thinking it would of been simple like giving the system 1GB of its own DDR4 RAM and 2-4 GB GDDR5 RAM for video so it can process video and graphics faster and more for a higher resolution.
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RyosukeG60 |
Solid_X_Snake- 11:08am EST - January 17th, 2013
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@2 well technically it's possible I guess to use GDDR for regular task management but the reason it's not is because its not optimized for that, the G in GDDR stands for graphics, it's ram specifically made for graphics memory management and its never used for regular data management, and remember even full on gaming tower pc motherboards don't support GDDR because its not optimized for it and os only need DDR to be optimal for data management, my guess is that the report was probably a mix bag of things and it made it seem that ps4 uses gddr5 for ram but it really is just the video memory, it'll probably use ddr3 or drr4 if Sony follow its legacy on getting more premium hardware
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