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

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gaming_noob

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Seems MS already upped the speed of the SSD after hearing about Sony’s SSD. You gotta be careful in this biz.

Doubtful. Next gen DF videos will be about load time comparisons. Can you imagine side by side Destiny 3 - PS5 load to map takes 0.2 seconds while XSX takes 15 seconds? That’s a deal breaker for me and I won’t touch an XSX.
 
Well that is still an extremely hard thing to achieve. It depends on what Sony/MS is setting out to do.
If AMD could deliver a chip that was able to do that then yes technically Microsoft/Sony could do a console with 13TF GPU power.
But the performance question for console is never what could we possibly do, but rather how do we make the most money in the long run?

The costs don't scale linear, because if you want a better gpu inside your console then you also need better cooler, better power supply, arguably better VRMs, the PCB that connects everything, a bigger/better designed case that can deal with the additional heat. It is not as easy as to say "ok I would prefer a 14TF system for 600$ instead of a 10TF system for 400$".
And things like that are calculated years in advance. Every little detail including the MHZ of the CPU/GPU require careful calculations, because everything changes especially the power and heat. It would make my post too long, but power and heat are directly correlated.

So could we see a PS5 or Xbox Series X with 13TF (or more)? Yes, but it is an unlikely scenario for a mass market product. A product that would be very expensive, because on top of the extremely powerful GPU we would need to add the costs of all the other components including case, cables, PCBs, GPU/CPU/APU(whatever way they are going), with the new generation of consoles we also have additional cost of RayTracing hardware cores and those aren't cheap, RAM, Power Supply, lets not forget the more expensive NVME SSD storage solution, cooling/fans, all the things on the main circuit board, the controller costs money and so does the manufacturing, putting it together, the work hours, shipping, calculating costs of defective units and other failures. My list could go on and on.
If you change just one thing then the whole system could become "unbalanced" again and doesn't run properly. Putting in a better GPU or just clocking the GPU higher? -> thermal issues -> throttling/overheating.

There is one thing I have been thinking about lately in regards to the Microsoft Xbox Series X console and that is that the console looks quite big and PC like with possibly a different arrangement from your usual way of how consoles are build. The Xbox Series X could be a big premium product right out of the gate. I think that is the one possibility where I see a really powerful "console" happening, but that would be reflected in the final cost for consumers.

I could come up with a lot of hypothetical situations where I could see certain scenarios happening that allow for the consoles that gaming enthusiasts on gaming forums thirsts for, but it would be a gigantic surprise to me if that happens right at the start of a new generation. In my eyes the most logical approach would be a balanced console at around 10TF~, 16GB, 1TB NVME SSD, low clocked 8/16 AMD CPU anywhere between 399$ and 499$.

We live in an age where those companies make much more money from digital services and all the fees connected to it. You would rather want to have as many consoles out there than having monster machines that most people are not ready to pay the price for.

If however we try to go down the route and play around with numbers a bit in a theoretical way then what would need to happen in order to make a 13TF GPU + extra RayTracing hardware work?
Would 13TF be the raw GPU power alone or would the 13TF include some sort of hybrid cores that could be used as RayTracing accelerators aswell?
How much power would just the GPU consume? How much power would it consume if it was 13TF + additional RayTracing cores?
How much power would the entire console consume at full load?

A GPU like the 9.7 TF 5700 XT alone consumes 200W during gaming. And the PS5/XBX are supposed to use Navi RDNA chips aswell right?
How much power do the Xbox and PS4 consume? Around 130-150W during gaming?
And that is for the entire system.


TL;DR : What we would need for 13TF to happen in a console is something magical from AMD that we have no idea is coming and Sony/MS would have needed to be well aware of what it is for years. It would need to be a GIGANTIC improvement over the Navi chips we have seen so far.
Aka Big Navi 21
 

saintjules

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I have been drunk as fuck on cold medicine past few days. Did I miss anything?
The TF talk has calmed down quite a bit. The recent talks have been how Sony isn't appearing at E3 2020 and how the big month for Sony is next month with the reveal and other info they want to share.


You can also follow gamesindustry Twitter account as they spammed most of the info that happened over the last couple of days.
 
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Doubtful. Next gen DF videos will be about load time comparisons. Can you imagine side by side Destiny 3 - PS5 load to map takes 0.2 seconds while XSX takes 15 seconds? That’s a deal breaker for me and I won’t touch an XSX.

I almost feel like Sony intentionally wanted Microsoft to know about the high speed SSD last year so they would have time to adjust their console accordingly, just imagine how cripples 3rd party games would have been this next gen if the PS5 had an ultra fast SSD while the XBSX had a mechanical or SATA3 SSD drive, 3rd party titles would have suffered severely because most of them would design the game based on the slowest console. Having high speed SSD drives in both consoles (even if one is a little faster) is a win for everyone, especially us gamers.
 

sinnergy

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Doubtful. Next gen DF videos will be about load time comparisons. Can you imagine side by side Destiny 3 - PS5 load to map takes 0.2 seconds while XSX takes 15 seconds? That’s a deal breaker for me and I won’t touch an XSX.
If MS upped the speed to 7 GBPS we are looking at 3 seconds for PS5 , no loading for series X, you buy ?
 
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Doubtful. Next gen DF videos will be about load time comparisons. Can you imagine side by side Destiny 3 - PS5 load to map takes 0.2 seconds while XSX takes 15 seconds? That’s a deal breaker for me and I won’t touch an XSX.
What are the chances that the differences will be that big though? Would mean the PS5 is 75x as fast as the XSX with their SSD.

I think these consoles are going to be neck-to-neck on every aspect
 
BTW david Jaffe already semi confirmed it by saying "its the worst kept gaming secret " so he knows and not guessing.



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guys buckle up cause its going down :messenger_tears_of_joy:

 
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TGO

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Anyone hear this shit
8 core Zen 2, clocked at 3.2Ghz.

Custom Navi GPU, 56CU, 1.8Ghz, 12.9TF. RT is hardware based, co engineered by AMD and Sony. (They believe the RT hardware is the basis for the rumour that Navi was built for Sony)

24GB RAM (Type or bandwidth wasn't mentioned)

Custom embedded Solid State solution paired with HDD."
 

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Nikana

Go Go Neo Rangers!
The TF talk has calmed down quite a bit. The recent talks have been how Sony isn't appearing at E3 2020 and how the big month for Sony is next month with the reveal and other info they want to share.


You can also follow gamesindustry Twitter account as they spammed most of the info that happened over the last couple of days.
good to know thanks for the update. Gonna hit the DayQuil hard again today so Ill likely black out net few days as well. its people like you that make it possible.
 

Imtjnotu

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7gbps is max theoretical speed in the top tier controller phison makes. That article did nothing but make people think it's going into consoles.


Isn't this a pastebin/reddit leak from a year ago?

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these were from someone who (or close friend) actually was at one of the first ps5 meetings/events. he gaves specs close to these and at the time sony had said in the meeting it was 13tf
 
7gbps is max theoretical speed in the top tier controller phison makes. That article did nothing but make people think it's going into consoles.


Isn't this a pastebin/reddit leak from a year ago?

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There is NO WAY we are going to see 7GB/s drives in the next gen consoles (at least at launch), people really need to get that out of their head! The fastest PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives out right now top out at around 5GB/s, which I am hoping we see that in the console, but I am not crossing my fingers. I personally expect to see 3GB/s models in the consoles...anything higher in that is just bonus, but that is the minimum I hope we see.
 

SlimySnake

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Sweet spot is 1.7 ghz for a 40 CU navi. its around 110w for the gpu alone.

AMD should be able to improve efficiency in a year. just how much is anyones guess. but 10% should be the bare minimum we can expect. add another 7% for n7p and we are looking at 2.0 ghz being the sweet spot for a 40 cu gpu. If you can get a 40 CU gpu at 2.0 ghz for a 110w then 36 cu should be around 100. with hbm and a cut down gpu, we are looking at a 150-160w console which shouldnt require any special vapor chamber cooling. this could be their $399 console.

i dont believe for a second that they are going with a $399 console to save on $50 for a bigger chip and vapor chamber cooling. i think they will go wide and slow like MS. i firmly believe both are using the same chip. the clock differences will come from cut down CPUs, HBM and better cooling solutions.
 
Where did he say "Big Navi"?
He didn't, last part is me saying before Big Navi were ready. Look, more than likely both MS and PS5 are using it if it didn't release last year like it was supposed too with ray tracing. That card is the one to do so not the 5700. I get the customizations and all but I "speculate" from researching that MS came to the party later in final design and finished earlier due to Big Navi being ready (rdna 2) and Sony starting earlier using Navi 10 in dev kits in 2019 - Hence why we have pics of Sony devkits. This is a speculation thread but I truly believe they will both use Rdna 2 (Big Navi) with ray tracing. Can't wait to see if I'm right.
 

Gamernyc78

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Hmm think about it, 12th Feb, 12teraflops. it’s all adding up now

This dominating the conversation bs is so annoying and dumb. Whoever drops the info dominates the conversation at tht point and tht can happen at any point in time so wtf does it matter? Not to mention ppl talking about dominating yet Sony drops a logo and gets 5,000,000 plus likes in a day 🤦‍♂️This isn't some one sided positive momentum for one console like ppl try to paint based off their frivolous narratives. If anything Sony fans are frothing at the mouth for info lol every second of every day.
 
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Sweet spot is 1.7 ghz for a 40 CU navi. its around 110w for the gpu alone.

AMD should be able to improve efficiency in a year. just how much is anyones guess. but 10% should be the bare minimum we can expect. add another 7% for n7p and we are looking at 2.0 ghz being the sweet spot for a 40 cu gpu. If you can get a 40 CU gpu at 2.0 ghz for a 110w then 36 cu should be around 100. with hbm and a cut down gpu, we are looking at a 150-160w console which shouldnt require any special vapor chamber cooling. this could be their $399 console.

i dont believe for a second that they are going with a $399 console to save on $50 for a bigger chip and vapor chamber cooling. i think they will go wide and slow like MS. i firmly believe both are using the same chip. the clock differences will come from cut down CPUs, HBM and better cooling solutions.
Although I dont agree with all I am so glad someone speculates that they are ultimately using the same generation of chip. The ray tracing is a giveaway for me. Only one AMD chip is starting that capability.
 
new leak from T3: (take with grain of salt)

"8 core Zen 2, clocked at 3.2Ghz.


Custom Navi GPU, 56CU, 1.8Ghz, 12.9TF. RT is hardware based, co engineered by AMD and Sony. (They believe the RT hardware is the basis for the rumour that Navi was built for Sony)

24GB RAM (Type or bandwidth wasn't mentioned)

Custom embedded Solid State solution paired with HDD."

This isn't a new leak. This is from last April.
 

Gamernyc78

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these were from someone who (or close friend) actually was at one of the first ps5 meetings/events. he gaves specs close to these and at the time sony had said in the meeting it was 13tf

"it may not be as powerful as some think" talk about capping lol the description of what might be doesn't even go hand in hand with tht comment 🤦‍♂️ppl would be in heaven if those are the specs.
 

joe_zazen

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I almost feel like Sony intentionally wanted Microsoft to know about the high speed SSD last year so they would have time to adjust their console accordingly, just imagine how cripples 3rd party games would have been this next gen if the PS5 had an ultra fast SSD while the XBSX had a mechanical or SATA3 SSD drive, 3rd party titles would have suffered severely because most of them would design the game based on the slowest console. Having high speed SSD drives in both consoles (even if one is a little faster) is a win for everyone, especially us gamers.

it depends how long pre 2018 PCs and x1 ps4 are going to be supported. Still a lot of hdd game buyers out there.
 
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Imtjnotu

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"it may not be as powerful as some think" talk about capping lol the description of what might be doesn't even go hand in hand with tht comment 🤦‍♂️ppl would be in heaven if those are the specs.
if both machines are over 12tf next gen would not be crippled in anyway. pc and console visuals should be really on part with eachother for atleast 2 years
 
new leak from T3: (take with grain of salt)

"8 core Zen 2, clocked at 3.2Ghz.


Custom Navi GPU, 56CU, 1.8Ghz, 12.9TF. RT is hardware based, co engineered by AMD and Sony. (They believe the RT hardware is the basis for the rumour that Navi was built for Sony)

24GB RAM (Type or bandwidth wasn't mentioned)

Custom embedded Solid State solution paired with HDD."
That's from may last year:
https://www.t3.com/news/ps5-tip-off-reveals-consoles-insane-power-as-sony-meeting-infiltrated
 
This dominating the conversation bs is so annoying and dumb. Whoever drops the info dominates the conversation at tht point and tht can happen at any point in time so wtf does it matter? Not to mention ppl talking about dominating yet Sony drops a logo and gets 5,000,000 plus likes in a day 🤦‍♂️This isn't some one sided positive momentum for one console like ppl try to paint based off their frivolous narratives. If anything Sony fans are frothing st the mouth for info lol every second of every day.
Hell I'm only frothing because of the stupid Github and DF mess to be truly over. I dont give a damn. I could buy both consoles. I work and will make enough to do so but God do I also know what you mean. I do have my own speculations as this is what this thread is for but it does get old when it's based off of personal feelings about fear of domination. Its psychological as hell - they really are scared. I need the specs to drop soon so I can see some mature responses.
 
it depends how long pre 2018 PCs and x1 ps4 are going to be supported. Still a lot of hdd game buyers out there.

I was hoping that they would also include a cheap high capacity mechanical drive in these consoles as well just so we can 'soft uninstall' any games we aren't currently playing which stores the game data on the mechanical drive when not installed so we don't have to re-download and re-install a game if we are wanting to play it later on...but I know that won't happen due to cost, but hopefully they will enable something like that for people with external drives.
 
There is NO WAY we are going to see 7GB/s drives in the next gen consoles (at least at launch), people really need to get that out of their head! The fastest PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives out right now top out at around 5GB/s, which I am hoping we see that in the console, but I am not crossing my fingers. I personally expect to see 3GB/s models in the consoles...anything higher in that is just bonus, but that is the minimum I hope we see.

It's not really impossible: 5GB/s drives are using either 2x or 3x PCIe 4.0 lanes (but since lane pairings are usually x1, x2, x4 and x8, that's either 3x x1 or 2x x2, and the former would technically treat the drive as 3 different devices which is, uh...which wouldn't be good for a singular drive. Conflicts and all that). But, those are also very large capacity drives, probably loaded with a lot of enhanced features (large DRAM cache for example), and being sold for high profit margins to consumers.

At bulk, getting a memory controller capable of 7GB/8GB /s speeds isn't really too expensive for either Sony or Microsoft, and the APUs will certainly support more than 4 PCIe 4.0 lanes. Plus by the time these systems come out SSDs with 6GB/s-8GB/s speeds will start becoming a bit more normal, even if they're at the premium end for consumer drives.

This is one area Sony and Microsoft would be able to reasonably future-proof in, and relatively easy to implement in the APU compared to some other features.
 
Ubp x800 here. I think I have roughly 8 uhd movies. I have about 40 Dolby vision movies on vudu tho

I, too, collect all the Dolby Vision UHDs. I don't use the digital codes, though, so I have had them up for sale over on the Blu-ray forum. PM me for a link if you're interested. Cheers, mate!
 

demigod

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I maintain that 1.8GHz 36CU is easily possible. In fact, Navi 10 "knee" only starts at 1.8GHz, and my point is, you would want to be closer to the knee then further behind because you are effectively "wasting" silicon that way. If they go wide and very slow you lose more perf then what you win back in efficiency, hence "sweetspot".

For Navi 10 its closer to 1800MHz then it is to 1600MHz, and that is even without taking into account improved process and 1.5yr more in oven on considerably higher budget.

Lets wait and see, not long now.
Come one man just stop it. That's 8.3TF and it doesn't match ANY rumors whatsoever. All of the credible insiders have pretty much said that both PS5 and XsX will be very similar. It's just starting to look like you want to push a narrative that you are interested in personally and it hurts the quality of this topic.

He pushes this narrative every day, I wish he was permabanned from this thread instead of just that 1 week ban he got. He doesn't even believe in his own lies.
I'll do a lifetime GAF ban bet with you R600 that its not 8TF-9.2TF.
 
It's not really impossible: 5GB/s drives are using either 2x or 3x PCIe 4.0 lanes (but since lane pairings are usually x1, x2, x4 and x8, that's either 3x x1 or 2x x2, and the former would technically treat the drive as 3 different devices which is, uh...which wouldn't be good for a singular drive. Conflicts and all that). But, those are also very large capacity drives, probably loaded with a lot of enhanced features (large DRAM cache for example), and being sold for high profit margins to consumers.

At bulk, getting a memory controller capable of 7GB/8GB /s speeds isn't really too expensive for either Sony or Microsoft, and the APUs will certainly support more than 4 PCIe 4.0 lanes. Plus by the time these systems come out SSDs with 6GB/s-8GB/s speeds will start becoming a bit more normal, even if they're at the premium end for consumer drives.

This is one area Sony and Microsoft would be able to reasonably future-proof in, and relatively easy to implement in the APU compared to some other features.

I totally believe the controllers inside the system will be capable of those speeds, but for sake of keeping within budget I don't feel like we are going to get a drive that fast, at least not at launch. My other curiousity is though, with these high speed SSD drives, most of them have heatsinks on them, so if they end up making those user replaceable (which I hope to hell they do) I wonder how they are going to accomodate all the different size heat sinks out there.
 
T3 is absolute trash. Don't believe a single thing they say unless it's literally reporting on an official announcement.

And don't believe whatever some random asshole on twitter is saying.
 

Gamernyc78

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Hell I'm only frothing because of the stupid Github and DF mess to be truly over. I dont give a damn. I could buy both consoles. I work and will make enough to do so but God do I also know what you mean. I do have my own speculations as this is what this thread is for but it does get old when it's based off of personal feelings about fear of domination. Its psychological as hell - they really are scared. I need the specs to drop soon so I can see some mature responses.

Lol word ppl act like one way or the other they'll lose their lives if their console of choice isn't what thy want it to be. It's crazy lol
 
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