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Next-Gen PS5 & XSX |OT| Console tEch threaD

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whoever81

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An analogy came to my mind out of the blue:
In the world of consoles Playstations are iPhones and Xboxes are Androids. Sony is Apple and Microsoft is kind of Samsung. Does this make sense in any way?

*I should mention that I am a bit high
 
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Fake

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An analogy came to my mind out of the blue:
In the world of consoles Playstations are iPhones and Xboxes are Androids. Sony is Apple and Microsoft is Google. Does this make sense in any way?
No. Sony is Apple? Is Sony current consoles are expensive?
 

Tiago07

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Its kinda a possibility. Its up to him. Neogaf got a lot of trafic just by next gen subject.
Yes It's a possibility, me for example came here by the next gen subject. But I had read the thread in Era until his ban and I think he will give a time until the PS5 official realese in February.
 
Looks like Matt is hyping up unannounced Xbox games on Era, which is pretty exciting since has generally been down on Xbox in the past.
Since Matt said he thinks XSX will be more powerful than PS5 he is no longer considered a legit source of inside info. Klee is now the only credible insider.
 
Why is tht unbelievable? Sony created better hardware almost every Gen. The X was just stronger and better bcus it costs more and came out over a year later. Much of its design was mimicking ps4 inner hardware BTW. Remember the biggest faulty consoles in history called rrod was under Microsoft. PS4 was also better designed and stronger than Xbox one, etc...
The latest console tech put out by both companies has MS with the far more effective, and quiet, cooling system.
Do you think the people who designed the 360 (which was a far better designed system than PS3) are now doing the XSX? Or do you think the guys who did the one X are more likely to be doing it?
 

OsirisBlack

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GTAVI getting prepped for PS5 reveal next month?
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So we just might get to see the stars.

Are upcoming current gen games like, The Last of Us 2, Ghost of Tsushima, etc.. going to be upgradeable on PS5, or am I going to need to buy the PS5 specifc version!?
100% guarantee that you won't have to repurchase Ghosts of Tsushima or The Last of Us 2.



Agreed

And still believe the PS5 comes in 10% ish under that mark.

Guesses

11.6 / 12.4 my guesses.

Edited to add 11.4 could happen but I have not heard anything about a change a simple adjustment either way will shift the number. Can't see why MS would lower the clock speed.

Looks like Matt is hyping up unannounced Xbox games on Era, which is pretty exciting since has generally been down on Xbox in the past.
Already stated and still stand firmly Xbox will have a very strong games library.
 
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Dolodolo

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If someone now thinks that Microsoft will have a strong "First" batch at launch, you can immediately moderate expectations
We are talking about a third party, for which the xbox will later be branded, as it was with Rise of Tomb Raider
Just a thought:)
 
Ah, so you're cherry picking posts to try to paint the situation in a certain light. Did you read my response to your Matt/Klee nonsense the other day? It's not Klee vs Matt as you've been suggesting.
To be honest I skim through fanboys posts most of the time. Probably missed it.
 

Dolodolo

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Already stated and still stand firmly Xbox will have a very strong games library.
Osiris ? Did you like the new Rare game ? Everwild seems
Do you remember a game like Wild from Michel Ansel ?)
I advise you to refresh your memory. Soon everyone will remember her again)
Just thinking out loud
 

ethomaz

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Both ARE GPU’s, there’s still images on the net as proof.

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What he means with Shaders array?
Because if that is Shader Engine then it needs 2 for 36CUs... 4 Shader Engine put you at 80 max CUs.

Edit - They changed the Shader Array in RDNA.... now it has 2 Shader Array per Shader Engine... in GCN it was 1 to 1.
 
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Because Ariel is pre silicon. It says right there in documents, only post silicon SOC is....Oberon.

Personally hope they go with 18Gbps chips (Samsung's 2GB chips are at that amount); would give around 576 GB/s bandwidth on a 256-bit bus.

If they can't do that, at least 16Gbps chips for 512 GB/s. 448 GB/s bandwidth with 14Gbps chips just feels a tad low, but I guess we'll see. RAM amount and Gbps are two things that can actually be altered this late in the game, up to a limit (if Sony really wanted to they could cram 32GB with 16x 2GB chips in clamshell mode, although that'd be crazy expensive and they'd still have to alter the memory controller and cooling solution anyway (let alone probably need a bigger motherboard or a more complicated one to put the other half of the chips on the underside).

Likewise I hope XSX is going with 18Gbps chips; that could give them 720 GB/s on a 320-bit bus or (if they're using a 384-bit bus) 864 GB/s. But given the extra cost they have to pay over Sony for needing more memory chips they'd probably settle for 16Gbps chips as the upper limit, or 768 GB/s upper limit bandwidth (if 384-bit bus).

They are close.

I think that PS5 number might be a little high but not by much.

With them going 40 CUs and all active, I think they might cut the GPU frequency off at around 1970-1975MHz. For between 10.08TF - 10.11TF.

They just better have a damn good cooling solution and build quality.
 
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OsirisBlack

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I would like to say and directly (no riddles) the newest information I got was that both of these systems are Close, Close enough to be twins just not identical. The biggest differences will be custom features and things like playing PS4 games with no load times or terrain pop in. Have to admit my tech knowledge is baffled at how the SSD will remove terrain pop in but I cannot wait to see it.
 
I would like to say and directly (no riddles) the newest information I got was that both of these systems are Close, Close enough to be twins just not identical. The biggest differences will be custom features and things like playing PS4 games with no load times or terrain pop in. Have to admit my tech knowledge is baffled at how the SSD will remove terrain pop in but I cannot wait to see it.

And when you say close, who do you believe has these advantage?
 

ethomaz

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I would like to say and directly (no riddles) the newest information I got was that both of these systems are Close, Close enough to be twins just not identical. The biggest differences will be custom features and things like playing PS4 games with no load times or terrain pop in. Have to admit my tech knowledge is baffled at how the SSD will remove terrain pop in but I cannot wait to see it.
From what I understand pop in happens when the HDD can’t supply the RAM fast enough to GPU use the data.
Just the use of SSD basically kills it at least decrescesse a lot pop in.
 
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11.6 / 12.4 my guesses.

Edited to add 11.4 could happen but I have not heard anything about a change a simple adjustment either way will shift the number. Can't see why MS would lower the clock speed.

Would you guess that the CPU in Series X is clocked higher? And would you also guess that both systems will have the same type & amount of RAM?
 
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Imtjnotu

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I would like to say and directly (no riddles) the newest information I got was that both of these systems are Close, Close enough to be twins just not identical. The biggest differences will be custom features and things like playing PS4 games with no load times or terrain pop in. Have to admit my tech knowledge is baffled at how the SSD will remove terrain pop in but I cannot wait to see it.
And do you still stand by ps5 being the stronger of the two?
 
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Mod of War

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I have Very detailed information.

Something special is coming

Let this be a precedence going forward for those trolling as “insiders”. GAF has always had a process since its inception that has been rock solid without burning sources. If anyone wants to be vetted, then PM one of the staff members. Otherwise nip this in the bud now.


CameFromNearFuture CameFromNearFuture PostJan 15, 2020Mar 1, 2020You were warned on several occasions in the past, refused the vetting process, said you would not speak as an �insider� otherwise it comes off as just trolling. Reassess your stance upon your return

Please read.
 

quest

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Personally hope they go with 18Gbps chips (Samsung's 2GB chips are at that amount); would give around 576 GB/s bandwidth on a 256-bit bus.

If they can't do that, at least 16Gbps chips for 512 GB/s. 448 GB/s bandwidth with 14Gbps chips just feels a tad low, but I guess we'll see. RAM amount and Gbps are two things that can actually be altered this late in the game, up to a limit (if Sony really wanted to they could cram 32GB with 16x 2GB chips in clamshell mode, although that'd be crazy expensive and they'd still have to alter the memory controller and cooling solution anyway (let alone probably need a bigger motherboard or a more complicated one to put the other half of the chips on the underside).

Likewise I hope XSX is going with 18Gbps chips; that could give them 720 GB/s on a 320-bit bus or (if they're using a 384-bit bus) 864 GB/s. But given the extra cost they have to pay over Sony for needing more memory chips they'd probably settle for 16Gbps chips as the upper limit, or 768 GB/s upper limit bandwidth (if 384-bit bus).

No matter what I assume the chips are down clocked a little. With these being 7 year devices both should go with the faster ram. The prices will go and saving I doubt be much in a couple of years when the bulk of the sales come.
 
I would like to say and directly (no riddles) the newest information I got was that both of these systems are Close, Close enough to be twins just not identical. The biggest differences will be custom features and things like playing PS4 games with no load times or terrain pop in. Have to admit my tech knowledge is baffled at how the SSD will remove terrain pop in but I cannot wait to see it.

Can you give some reasoning/guesses into some of the rumors XSX will be closer to 11.4-11.5 TF? I've thought about it myself and the only explaination would be them being overly conservative. The clock would be as low as around 1600MHz, either that or they're disabling more than 4 CUs (maybe upwards 8CUs).

Both of those don't add up given the system itself looks like it should be able to cool a GPU clocked higher than 1600MHz sufficiently. But maybe that's just me :S

No matter what I assume the chips are down clocked a little. With these being 7 year devices both should go with the faster ram. The prices will go and saving I doubt be much in a couple of years when the bulk of the sales come.

Interesting. I thought chip frequency wouldn't affect the bandwidth, i.e the bandwidth per pin is a fixed spec. I remember doing bandwidth calculations a while ago factoring in the RAM speed and wondering why my bandwidth totals were off. Well that was the reason. But RAM speed does affect the GPU's effective memory clock which affects the TF performance, is that perhaps what you're referring to?
 
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Clintizzle

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I would like to say and directly (no riddles) the newest information I got was that both of these systems are Close, Close enough to be twins just not identical. The biggest differences will be custom features and things like playing PS4 games with no load times or terrain pop in. Have to admit my tech knowledge is baffled at how the SSD will remove terrain pop in but I cannot wait to see it.

No thank you. I'll stick to PC.
 

OsirisBlack

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demigod

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Óðinn
5 > Red as far as I am told nothing has changed. I have heard that there is MUCH more wiggle room with clock speeds on the MS side so all of that issues with cooling, don't believe that shit at all.

If there's more wiggle room, why only 11.6 then? Couldn't they just upclock and beat the 5?
 

OsirisBlack

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If there's more wiggle room, why only 11.6 then? Couldn't they just upclock and beat the 5?
Just because you can raise clock speeds doesn't mean that you should. Also it would probably be best to release conservative see what happens when millions of consoles are in peoples homes then raise clock speeds if needed through firmware patches. No one wants another RROD situation.

No thank you. I'll stick to PC.
Never understood posts like this, Check the old PC pictures threads. I game on PC also have been playing games at native 4k /60fps for years now. I still love consoles.
 
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Óðinn


5 > Red as far as I am told nothing has changed. I have heard that there is MUCH more wiggle room with clock speeds on the MS side so all of that issues with cooling, don't believe that shit at all.

Help me out here. The odin reference - is it AC or GOW5 related - or both?
 

quest

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If there's more wiggle room, why only 11.6 then? Couldn't they just upclock and beat the 5?

Probably don't want to even take a chance at a repeat of the RROD. The one S had a huge box with big cooler. Same with the series X they are gun shy as hell after a billion dollar bath.
 

vpance

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Probably don't want to even take a chance at a repeat of the RROD. The one S had a huge box with big cooler. Same with the series X they are gun shy as hell after a billion dollar bath.

We also don't know how efficient their cooling setup actually is. Sure it's big, but what is the TDP? And how hot does it get? They do want the system to remain quiet after all. There's a bunch of factors why upclocking to beat PS5 may not be worth it for them.
 
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