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[PS4Daily RUMOR] ps4 developers will have access to 7GB of GDDR5 heaven
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mckmas8808
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I want to get on the HTML5 enabled internet while gaming. Can 1 GB of ram do this?
512MB was taking into account a total of 4GBA bump to 8GB sort of does imply a bump in the OS reserve to 1GB, at least. Might as well.
Oh yeah you're right. Still leaves games with more than most will know what to do with thankfully.
IHaveCandy
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To put it in comparison, PS3 had 32 MB for the OS.
JohnnySasaki86
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Looks like my prediction was correct.
No...its closer to 50mb's. 360 is 32mb's I believe.
No...its closer to 50mb's. 360 is 32mb's I believe.
It's still a good trade off considering the amount of ram they are getting. Could the bump to 1GB be because GDDR5 has a higher latency as opposed to DDR3?
You didn't really expect devs to get all 8GB GDDR5 did you? lol
Napalm_Frank
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It won't cause OS has a locked amount of RAM so it basically works like with Vita. You can use the OS full speed while game is suspended.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Are you serious? If anything, 1GB is maybe even too much.
With the rumour about "spec upgrade" for XB3, that number could have gone down. PS4 should have reserved 4GB for OS.
Cornbread78
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Wait, give it all to them!
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Perfect! OS doesn't need anymore than 1GB. 7GB for gaming is godly!
2GB?! eww no. >< There is no TV here!
You can do that on an iPad mini with 512MB total RAM. 1GB is a good amount for OS and the right way to do things is to reserve as much as you think you will ever need and then slowly give it back with optimization.
Like I mentioned earlier it's going to be silly with PC and PS4 versions using 7GB of RAM and not Durango.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Can somebody tell me if Proelite is just joking or seriously bashing Durango? AFAIK we don't even know yet if the 3GB for Durango OS was true?
My friends who work for MS told me to expect something along the lines of 12 GB of RAM in the next XBox - 4 of which is reserved for the OS. Basically, they said it is a memory hog and will be based on Windows 8. Expect to see interconnectivity with all of MS devices...
Seeing what an utter piece of crap W8 is, that isn't an encouraging thought.
Seeing what an utter piece of crap W8 is, that isn't an encouraging thought.
Someone needs to shop Mark Cerny or Kaz onto this.
Reverse psychology.
AgentP
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Of course, being more than 10x in size and more than 6x in bandwidth than the PS3 it should be a dog. Not to mention BSD is so much slower than Windows.
Napalm_Frank
Member
He should use it with more restraint then :lol.
Square Triangle
Member
PS4daily? Lol
SimpleGamer
Member
But it doesn't sound as bad as 256mb
No. Future proof, don't let another crossgame chat fiasco happen again.
12 GB is devkits. For a mass produced device, going with more than 8GB greatly increases costs and motherboard complexity at the moment until we get higher density ram chips.
Wishmaster92
Member
noooooooooo i wanted the whole 8gb for games (((((( lets hope sony reduces the os footprint like they did with the ps3 over time.
(((((( lets hope sony reduces the os footprint like they did with the ps3 over time.The_Hitcher89
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As a complete technological ignoramus, does the persistent recording cut into the RAM?
I really think people are overestimating the immediate impact of one or two GB more once you get beyond 5GB. These systems aren't specced to really use that much memory effectively every frame. Most likely, it would only result in small loading time differences in the vast majority of cases.
That depends on how they implement it. It's a bit of a tradeoff between using more RAM and causing disk traffic more often.
Are you kidding me? If you want a clunky and slow OS look at the 360 Dashboard. I feel like I'm wading through molasses every time I use it.
PS3's is so snappy in comparison. Sony knows how to make a good console OS. Only using up 1 GB of the system RAM is lean as hell. Compare that to Durango's rumored 3 GB OS overhead.
SniperHunter
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So I guess they decided to waste 512 mb on useless features
obviously you haven't used windows 8. In fact win8 runs even better on low spec machines than win 7.
Yes, a little bit. But it will cut into the 1GB OS memory, not the 7GB developer memory.
Ninja Moomin
Banned
it just keeps getting better and better.
ps4 is going to be a beast
ps4 is going to be a beast
XtremeXpider
Member
No, it is more than 32MB. Xbox 360 OS memory footprint is 32MB, PS3 is 50MB (43MB form main memory).
Proelite
Member
Dev kits.
That's probably devkits if true but more importantly why would an embedded version of Windows need 4GB of memory? This is counter to everything Microsoft have done in the last 8 years or so with things like the MinWin project.
Miles Quaritch
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It was initially 120mb but was reduced to 50mb in 2010. I don't believe they've reduced it since.
Napalm_Frank
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I dunno about 360 but PS3 OS during gameplay is pretty terrible so that is one improvement I am looking foreward to with PS4. Vita OS is godlike.
McHuj
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If that's true, then the current leaked specs are wrong as 12 GB of RAM would require a 384-bit memory bus for 24 4Gb chips. We'll see.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=53554899&postcount=17
Pretty sure it is.
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