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So I found this thread on Reddit and it seems to explain the memory structure of XSX very well:
I don't really understand why MS did this. I guess it's because they needed the 10 chips for their larger CU count and a cost-cutting measure. While it's not as bad a setup as I thought it was originally, in many ways it's smart, but feck me if it's not still a MASSIVE compromise compared to what Cerny did.
The XSX setup seems worse than having a completely separate pool of RAM on a separate bus as the slower RAM can intrude on the fast RAM's ability to access itself on that channel.
XSX essentially only has 4GB of unencumbered RAM.
I don't really understand why MS did this. I guess it's because they needed the 10 chips for their larger CU count and a cost-cutting measure. While it's not as bad a setup as I thought it was originally, in many ways it's smart, but feck me if it's not still a MASSIVE compromise compared to what Cerny did.
The XSX setup seems worse than having a completely separate pool of RAM on a separate bus as the slower RAM can intrude on the fast RAM's ability to access itself on that channel.
XSX essentially only has 4GB of unencumbered RAM.
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