Some of my thoughts. I really enjoyed Nvidia's presentation today, it's cool that Papa Jensen got straight to the juicy stuff and didn't beat around the bush too much. I really like what they've done with the new 30 RT XGPU's and they're pushing crazy levels of performance and the price is relatively "reasonable and cheap" especially when compared to the previous Turing 2000's.
It also reminded me of Coretek's analysis of the next-gen in his "AMD's Checkmate" video which has aged really well. He was right in his assessment that the next generation of discreet GPU's from Nvida and AMD will incorporate more and more fixed function hardware accelerators for things like I/O compression and decompression. He also stated that it would be interesting to see how the Ampere cards will be priced because the consoles will also be offering "high levels of performance", (relatively speaking so PC master race chill out).
The I/O performance of the Ampere cards, Jensen gave the figure of 14 Gbps compressed, he was a bit suspect with his figures, but as a few others have pointed out on this thread, this seem's likely to be the "theoretical max" of the I/O same as PS5's 22 GBps theoretical max. I'm curious to know the average figures but as with all PC hardware, I'm guessing it will vary significantly depending on other parts of the hardware especially the SSD I/O itself.
Now what's interesting, I like that Sony focussed on the I/O, it's performance is still beyond "next-gen" and it will ensure the system will have much better longevity. It also makes the PS5 truly unique in that aspect. that along with the PS first party exclusives. Now I am a little concerned for Series X, all the boasting of "teraflops" and "RT power" and here comes along Ampere which eats it for breakfast.
You could say the same for PS5 however Mark Cerny never intended for the PS5 to be a "powerhouse" of compute performance and teraflops unlike Microsoft and Series X, however it seemed that Cerny wanted to equip the PS5 with enough power for 4K gaming as well as allowing for a generational leap in graphics. If the rumours are true about the PS5 incorporating RDNA 3 features into it's APU such as the GE then it seem's fair to say the PS5 "works smarter but not harder" compared to the Series X.
It's fascinating to see differences between cultures and areas of the world in different aspects. Sometimes we tend to forget there's a whole wild world outside of OUR specific culture or area!
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