Explosive Zombie
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My biggest issue with current gen open world games is the immersion-breaking nature of pop-in, the more busy with stuff the more aggressive the pop-in. SSD's will absolutely matter.
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Is the addition of SSDs really as big a deal as people are making it out to be?
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Lethal01
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The developers disagree with you. Nobody is who's had to deal with games that require tons of streaming from storage is going to back you up unless you ask them something dumb like "will the SSD double my resolution and process Global illumination"
The developers are constantly saying how much more this will let them do.
TheContact
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| PS4 HDD | PS4 Pro HDD | Kingston SSD | |
| Read Throughput | 75.2 MB/s | 88.1 MB/s | 293.1 MB/s |
| Write Throughput | 73.6 MB/s | 87.1 MB/s | 250.5 MB/s |
| Read IOPS (4K) | 58 IOPS | 61 IOPS | 7036 IOPS |
| Write IOPS (4K) | 122 IOPS | 124 IOPS | 6701 IOPS |
| Read Latency | 17.2 ms | 16.8 ms | 0.145 ms |
| PS4 HDD: HGST HTS545050A7E680 (500GB; 5400 RPM); PS4 Pro HDD: HGST HTS541010A9E680 (1TB; 5400 RPM); SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K SH103S3480G (480GB) | source: https://techgage.com/article/sonys-playstation-4-pro-system-performance-hdd-vs-ssd-testing/ |
Now, mind you, the SSD tested here was using PCIE 3.0 and the next gen systems are using 4.0
A 4.0 SSD gets you around 5.5GB/s of throughput, and theoretically up to 9 if compression is used efficiently. (src: https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/p...ng-to-pcs-in-august-thanks-to-samsung-980-pro)
So yes, it makes a huge fucking difference (not in raw graphic output as that is handled by the GPU, but it will ease the load of other components especially with the tech the ps5 is using with the way the RAM interfaces with the SSD)
Phrixotrichus
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Who`d have thought a hardware deep dive would be about the hardware.....
pretty low effort trolling attempt.
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Panajev2001a
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You are being ridiculous: compare that GDC presentation with the XSX DF interview/tech deep dive. Actually the correct assessment would be more like disingenuous trying to rile people up. Which is evident with you going into an SSD focused thread, posting this kind of console war BS “XSX is about games, PS5 is about the SSD” and laughing at people that react to you. Are you 12?
It is quite fanboyish to look at either those XSX presentations or The Road to PS5 and complain about those not being about games even if you went for a very very shallow reading of them: they are extremely focused at developers and developer problems when creating... you guess that... games.
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Yes it's. Playing Fallout 4 with all the DLC included. The loading sucks, the data streaming sucks, the LOD sucks big time, sometimes walking around the world the game stops for a couple of seconds to load the map or the new area. I think fallout 4 is the worst example... the Witcher 3 did not have did problem or ar least i did not felt it.
