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I'm surprised how little RAM they're giving it. The amount available to the game is only increasing by 50% over the Xbox One X. I think developers are going to
by gok 7y ago
I'm surprised how little RAM they're giving it. The amount available to the game is only increasing by 50% over the Xbox One X. I think developers are going to struggle to squeeze the proposed visual improvements. If Sony gives a more meaningful RAM boost in the PS5, developers are just going to ship their cross platform games at lower quality on Xbox Series X.
- mikewhy 7y agoThey may have something in mind for that? This is from the article on xbox.com: > Enter Xbox Velocity Architecture, which features tight integration between hardware and software and is a revolutionary new architecture optimized for streaming of in game assets. This will unlock new capabilities that have never been seen before in console development, allowing 100 GB of game assets to be instantly accessible by the developer. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/03/16/xbox-series-x-tech/ https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/03/16/xbox-series-x-tech/
- rasz 7y agobetter known as swapping to disk
- tenebrisalietum 7y agoEvery console since game consoles were invented in the 70's has had too little RAM compared to computers of the day.
- aliswe 7y agoI agree - care to elaborate?
- tenebrisalietum 7y agoAtari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM, even the KIM-1 onboard 6502 had a eight times that - a full 1K--the Apple I had 4K of RAM. NES had 2K of work RAM + 2K of video RAM, compare to the C64 at the time that had a full 64K, or the newer 16-bit computers at the time like Amiga, Atari ST, etc. that were 128K, 256K or more. SNES had 128K of work RAM + 64K of sound RAM. In 1991 I think typical computer memories were starting to get in the 2-4MB range. Playstation 1 had 2MB of RAM and 1MB of video RAM. By 1995 you were firmly in the 8MB range or higher for PCs. Playstation 2 had 32MB of RAM. My PC at that time had 256MB of RAM and that was somewhat low. So the trend of consoles having far less RAM than PCs is well established.
- aliswe 7y agoThanks, I appreciate it!
- Koshkin 7y agoWell, they did not expect you to try and run VS Code on it.
- skohan 7y agoOr two chrome tabs
- aliswe 7y agoIf I understand this properly (and perhaps I don't) then many PC games run just fine on 8GB, possibly since the GPU has the textures and whatnot offloaded to it. Not many games would need much more than 8GB pure game process data in memory at once. Furthermore the bottleneck of games performance is rarely the amount of RAM, so performance went elsewhere.