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Basically, yes. The PS5 is also going to be just an x86 Ryzen machine with the same AMD GPUs you'd get in a PC. This is sort of disappointing from a technology
by Analemma_ 7y ago
Basically, yes. The PS5 is also going to be just an x86 Ryzen machine with the same AMD GPUs you'd get in a PC.
This is sort of disappointing from a technology nerdery perspective, but after years of game developers struggling with bespoke weirdness like the PS3 Cell chip, I imagine they're welcoming the change. It also makes it much easier to handle backwards-compatibility, which most gamers treat as non-negotiable these days.
- vernie 7y agoThis change already happened in the last generation as both the PS4 and Xbox One used Jaguar APUs with GCN GPUs.
- skohan 7y agoBut there are some meaningful differences right? Like it's an SOC with shared CPU/GPU memory. Theoretically this could give better performance for things like loading assets, which have to go from storage -> main memory -> graphics memory on PC.
- ericflo 7y agoOne difference is the large amounts of GDDR6 on the APUs in these upcoming consoles, which is not something PC CPUs typically have access to. (It'll have to share that memory for both graphics and compute though, so not a pure win.) I think that just that memory architecture difference alone could lead to some interesting performance characteristics compared to contemporary PCs.