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PS5 specs revealed. Up to 10.2 Tflops.

Sony only showed one really advantage over Xbox Series X and that was SSD speeds, but at the end of the day will that overcome the Teraflop difference?


Multiplats are going to just simply run better on the Series X, no doubt in my mind. I don't mind waiting 1 extra second of loading times.
It is not just the TFs , the XSX is better in everything else but the SSD speed.
 

CAB_Life

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kinda wondering what the spin will be? it defiantly looks like its a 9.2tf machine but can be overclocked to 10.2 in certain situations

The spin is going on in the “official stream“ thread as we speak. Nonsense about how 36 CUs at that speed (which it wont’ be, constantly, or the box would be on fire) is a gamechanger. ”Xbox is slow and powerful; PS5 is fast and efficient with powerful CUs.” I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the general delusion that’s fomenting.

Look, I’ve been a PS guy all my life with the brief exceptions of owning a Wii, a 360 (Lost Odyssey—yaaassss!) and recently an X1X and even still this reveal was terribly disappointing: messaging to delivery. No idea what Sony is thinking or doing atm, but they seem to have lost the plot.
 

MilkyJoe

Member
I think people are very much into the TF thing. They have a console that has much better SSD capabilites and people need to see this aspect more clearly. the TF alone isn't what makes the console best. it's everything around it. This console will probably land on 399- 449 USD.

Correct. Having to wait 2 to 4 seconds longer to play a game on SX completely negates the 20% gpu advantage, faster cpu and faster memory bandwidth, experienced during actual gameplay.
 

Techies

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I'm not really sure PS5 will be cheaper and too be honest I don't expect a price announcement anytime soon either.
Market will be split 50/50 this time around in the long run,

This is however great news for developers, most games will use the PS5 as the baseline, anything added extra to Xbox will be minimal in terms of features.
 
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vpance

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So now that it's clear they aimed for 9TF to start I wonder what the odds of a Pro is in 3 years.

They played it too conservative this time around IMO. Will be interesting to see what the preorders are like between XSX and PS5 in a few months. Only big plus for them is if they can hit an unexpectedly low price like $349.
 

Filippos

Banned
Not really, first/second party MSFT is still non-existent.
They bought 1st and 2nds like crazy in X360 days.

lol MS bought a lot of studios and there are even more to come.. they have 16 studios.. the games will follow nextgein.. also MS is launching with fucking halo, which is in development for 5 years.. what is PS5 launching with? Godfall? lol
 
Sony didnt even mentioned if they get 16 threads on their CPU?

I suspect due to GPU overclocked taking away TDP and cooling, they have to sacrifice SMT. Total failure if so.

This is a total failure in every way.

It has a 9.2TF GPU which can be overclocked to 10.3.

It doesn't even list the amount of RAM.

It has a CPU frequency lower than the XBox Series X.

It's raytracing seems to be no better than what comes with RDNA.

Sony has launched a gimped console.

If it doesn't have multithreading, then it's even worse.
 

Mithos

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“Almost all” top 100 PS4 games will be playable on PS5?

Does that mean not true backwards compatibility?

The way I understood it was that the "100 games thing" was for when running PS5 Native mode.
When running PS4 Pro or PS4 mode everything should just work.

At least that's how I interpreted what was said.
 
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Orta

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sinnergy

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Now see MS clock extra 50 MHz. Before launch , would be hilarious.

MS tackled it in the right way, change form factor, amazing.
 

xrnzaaas

Member
I feel like Sony should've uploaded this a separate video without big fanfares because of GDC cancellation and then made a proper reveal "for the players" with all the key specs. Tons of people have already downvoted the video on the official PS channel.
 
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Too bad you didn't go for my bet then. :) Could've had at least that. BTW I think Sony is just calling it RDNA2 but it's actually RDNA1 plus RT. They did not talk at all about VRS, which should have been a given at a tech talk to devs.
Give it up man . Atleast have that much diginity. What u think is in your head and not reality . Rdna 2 was already announced by amd you chose to ignore it .
 

AGRacing

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9.2 at 2.00 ghz was exactly right. I can’t wait to see this cooling solution.

Here’s the hilarious part : dynamics clocks in a console... we will never know what they clocks are running at while we are playing until I suppose the day someone hacks the thing.

He’s suggesting that high triangle count games won’t hit those numbers because of heat, etc. So your “god of war” tier game will put the console in the 9.X range. Your simple graphics high frame rate titles may see the GPU break 10TF. We won’t ever know , though.

They get to advertise a high theoretical peak and we get to live with the reality of probably never seeing it.

He does seem confident it’s going to be a quiet system.... so I take that as a win.....
 

psorcerer

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lol MS bought a lot of studios and there are even more to come.. they have 16 studios.. the games will follow nextgein.. also MS is launching with fucking halo, which is in development for 5 years.. what is PS5 launching with? Godfall? lol

We'll see about that.
 

GHG

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Potentially it can be way better. SSD controller they have is unbelievably good.
But PC and XSeX do not have anything like it = no multi will ever use it.

Not really, first/second party MSFT is still non-existent.
They bought 1st and 2nds like crazy in X360 days.

True but I think the dynamic has changed now. They wont be buying studios, but rather they will be throwing money at games they want day one on gamepass. If they can get a few big 3rd party mutiplatform titles agreed on gamepass for day 1 of release it will be a pretty big deal.

100% agreed on the first point. Same goes for the 3D audio they spent so long talking about.
 
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This is thread about PS5 HARDWARE and people are dissapointed because Sony fucked up big time. First party games have potential to look great given how talented Sony studios are but EVERY TP game will be better on XSX.
Again, who cares? Why be disappointed when Sony wants an affordable system? The thread is for arguing and discussion.
 
The graphics processing unit (of Xbox Series X) is also a custom unit based on AMD's RDNA 2 graphics architecture with 52 compute units running at 1.465GHz (base) & 1.825GHz (boost) that is capable of 9.75 (base) teraflops & 12.14 (boost) teraflops of computational power.



Holy shit you are just blatantly making shit up. the article you linked DOES NOT say that at all.

From the article it actually says.

with a peak 3.8GHz frequency. This is when SMT - or hyper-threading - is disabled. Curiously, developers can choose to run with eight physical cores at the higher clock, or all cores and threads can be enabled with a lower 3.6GHz frequency. Those frequencies are completely locked and won't adjust according to load or thermal conditions - a point Microsoft emphasised several times during our visit.
But up until now at least, the focus has been on the GPU, where Microsoft has delivered 12 teraflops of compute performance via 3328 shaders allocated to 52 compute units (from 56 in total on silicon, four disabled to increase production yield) running at a sustained, locked 1825MHz. Once again, Microsoft stresses the point that frequencies are consistent on all machines, in all environments. There are no boost clocks with Xbox Series X.
 

PocoJoe

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I believed that Sony will give us faster than xbox system, I were wrong.

But still, I understand their logic. Maybe it is true that less CUs with much higher clocks = plain TFLOP count doesnt tell the whole story.

I just fear that it is hot as fuck and noisy.

SSD is definetly better than on xsex, 3d audio sounds really interesting.

And this just shows that Sony will probably win the gen even when MS moneyspams their way to better specs
 
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Deleted member 774430

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Sony fucked up by not showing games.
Sometimes they're complete idiots. Lol

I was not expecting this since it was a GDC presentation, but at least show me a better tech demo than DEAD SPACE from 2008!

You could have done that with Doom 2016.

Also still no design for the box, or at the least the new Dualshock.
 
This is thread about PS5 HARDWARE and people are dissapointed because Sony fucked up big time. First party games have potential to look great given how talented Sony studios are but EVERY TP game will be better on XSX.

I totally agree. Sony just handed the generation over to microsoft. Yes, there will be some good looking games on the PS5 but the system is no where close to a generational leap. I think games will look FAR better on the Xbox.
 

Filippos

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We'll see about that.


we are already seeing that though.. Sony not in top20 and MS at 7. Accoring to Metacritic.
 

Kokoloko85

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Still sounds good to me. Games will sell. Games like Spider Man 2, God of War 2, Naughty Dogs game will always sell millions of consoles,

And for people shouting xbox will win. Xbox has had the stronger console for 2 years? And this isnt the 360 era. The 360 had a year advantage sales, PS3 was not great at developing games and lost many many exclusives to the 360. It was the bro era of Halo, Gears and Cod. That wont happen again
 
It's not a stable 10.2 though. It most likely drops to 9.x in any kind of load.

Series X is locked at 12.1.

Do you have a link to that? I thought that it was "Capped" at 12.1, not locked, which would mean that all games run at 12.1 regardless of whether they need to or not.
 

psorcerer

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True but I think the dynamic has changed now. They wont be buying studios, but rather they will be throwing money at games they want day one on gamepass. If they can get a few big 3rd party mutiplatform titles agreed on gamepass for day 1 of release it will be a pretty big deal.

Judging from how they supported 3rd parties in current-gen they don't have a chance.
But things change, I hope they are better now.
All of the current-gen Sony was better in MSFT infrastructure (compilers/debuggers/tools) than MSFT (using MSFT Visual Studio and friends at that).
Some strange people even think that Sony 1st parties use DirectX, that's how good that was.
 

Great Hair

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One would assume that, after selling 110mill. PS4 chips .. Sony would be AMDs priority. 10TFLOPS is not enough for VR at all. And also during the pressconfer. Cerny alluded to those external SSD cards. Yet didnt mention it at all.

And he wants me to scan my head? my ears? to get the right HRTF?! for me. They better have Bloodborne 4K60 ready, Demon´s Souls remaster ready for $299. 10 to even 13Tflops are weak arse. And those 10 are PEAK! meaning that most hit 8 to 9Tflops with their shitty ports, unoptimized ass.creed 11.

I give you 10!


They should have given me the job of creating the PS5.

1º COPY PS4 design, layout
2º replace GDDR5 with GDDR6
3º PS4 APU with a beefy PS5 APU
4º add standard PCIX4 SSD with extra cache
5º release 2019 25th birthday

$399 going to be tough sell, if your rival has 2tflops more and costs the same? Overall, lackluster ... too much talk about shitty 3D audio NO ONE gives a wet fart about it. Has Cerny played any game beside Knack 1?

Wish KKK was still in charge, he would have done a better job (PS1, PS2, PS3 >>>> PS4, PS5)
 

DunDunDunpachi

Patient MembeR
last minute overclock.
variable 10tflop
9tflop is reality for next gen RT games
Bloomberg also mentioned for Sony was forced to use a beefy cooling, that further raised its BOM. $399 is a pipe dream in this environment.

You know Mark Sony should just use AMD 56CU part from the get go.
What a failure encouraged by complacency.
Explains their team exoduos of late.
What makes you say it's last-minute? Doesn't really answer my question in either case.

Because they were true. Even Cerny acknowledges a potential 10% drop from the peak clock speeds, and you know that he is sugarcoating things, high would bring the gpu basically at 9. something TFs.
Seems like I missed the true fanboy war.

Forget PS5 specs. We have people in here stanning for precious github :goog_rofl:

Didn't github also leak that it would be RDNA 1?
 
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