LET'S MISINFORM!!! - I love that thread recently where some Hermit claimed PCs were getting DDR5 RAM this year so that makes the PS4's 8GB of DDR5 no longer impressive. However, that wasn't really true.
What is great about DDR5 memory is the BANDWIDTH. In other words, the SPEED of the memory. The average PC today, even a gaming PC uses DDR3 RAM. DDR3 RAM with a typical speed of 1600Mhz has a memory bandwidth of around 25/Gbs. That's roughly equal to the Xbox 360 and PS3!!! You got that, HIGH END PCS today use system RAM that is as SLOW as 360 and PS3 memory.
If you guys clicked the link in that thread it explained that the DDR5 memory that is coming to PCs this year will give us a bandwidth of around 50/Gbs which is double what we have now. But nowhere near the 176/Gbs that will be in the PS4.
The truth is that DDR5 is only coming at that speed in certain limited configurations. The real jump will be next year when ALL PCs move to DDR4 memory. But then the memory WILL NOT be running at 176/Gbs.
It will take YEARS for PCs to use system ram that run as fast as the PS4's 8GB DDR5 Memory. Maybe by the time the PS5 is out, PCs will reach that point.
Xplode_games
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
can console games be that stupid?
176/Gbs memory BANDWIDTH are shared between the CPU and GPU, so CPU will use around 20/Gbs and around 155/Gbs for GPU.
on pc on the other hand (in my pc specifically), it is 38/Gbs for CPU, 300/Gbs for GPU and 300/Gbs for my second GPU, if you want to add it together(like the ps4) it is 638/Gbs vs 176/Gbs
(not to mention that ps4 have higher memory latency than my pc...)
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