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Yeah, but to the casual user like me, that's going to help with load times... go from 2 seconds to 1 second.
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Not really. They plan to try to make "as many PS4 games BC as possible" which means they are actively porting games they deem worth porting, versus it being natively supported
PS5 is an x86 CPU + AMD RDNA GPU. PS4 was an x86 CPU + AMD GCN GPU. A huge amount of games will be portable from the get-go. GCN and RDNA have extremely similar assembly languages. The only major assembly language change from GCN -> RDNA is DPP / cross-lane operations (kinda like pshufb from x86). But I'm not even sure if the PS4 had those instructions.
Native BC would be
1. It runs native hardware (PS2 EE on Early PS3) 2. It runs without updates required (PS2 running inside emulator on later PS3)
This requires actual updates by the dev for individual games to work
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The PS5 can play PS4 games so it would be a worse financial decision I guess
But it doesn't have any games worth playing on it, whereas the ps4 has an established and extensive library that would take (me, at least) quite some time to get through. Probably long enough for the ps5 to become more purchasable than a steel Daytona, unlike now where it"s apparently extremely difficult to buy
Although, realistically, it'll be a few months into next year before I actually get one.
Yeah, but to the casual user like me, that's going to help with load times... go from 2 seconds to 1 second.
When will this be available with AMD? I'm currently shopping for a new build, and willing to wait 6 months or so, but beyond that I'm not sure ...
AMD will present its next generation Ryzen CPUs, based on Zen 3, the day after tomorrow, 08.10.2020 [0][1] - maybe we can get more info about DDR5 compatibility already then. [0]: https://twitter.com/AMDRyzen/status/1312080706739339266 ? [1]: https://www.amd.com/en/events/gaming-2020?sf238352749=1&sf23...
When will this be available with AMD? I'm currently shopping for a new build, and willing to wait 6 months or so, but beyond that I'm not sure ...
AMD will present its next generation Ryzen CPUs, based on Zen 3, the day after tomorrow, 08.10.2020 [0][1] - maybe we can get more info about DDR5 compatibility already then. [0]: https://twitter.com/AMDRyzen/status/1312080706739339266 ? [1]: https://www.amd.com/en/events/gaming-2020?sf238352749=1&sf23...
I like what IBM has done with their latest power chip - effectually made the whole memory interface upgradable. https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/09/03/the-memory-area-netw... "the shift from dedicated DDR4 memory controllers to Serdes-based, high speed differential signaling mixed with buffer chips on memory modules that can be taught to speak DDR4, DDR5, GDDR6, 3D XPoint, or whatever, is an important shift in syste…
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PS5 is backwards compatible FYI.
Not really. They plan to try to make "as many PS4 games BC as possible" which means they are actively porting games they deem worth porting, versus it being natively supported
I like what IBM has done with their latest power chip - effectually made the whole memory interface upgradable. https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/09/03/the-memory-area-netw... "the shift from dedicated DDR4 memory controllers to Serdes-based, high speed differential signaling mixed with buffer chips on memory modules that can be taught to speak DDR4, DDR5, GDDR6, 3D XPoint, or whatever, is an important shift in syste…
Adds a latency hop, which generally can be dealt with by prefetching and larger caches on the CPU side. There's speculation that AMD is going to do the same - in Zen 2 and later designs the CPU chiplets are coupled with different IO dies depending on the design (Ryzen, Threadripper, Epyc), and swapping out the IO die for one that has support for new/different memory types would less work than taping out a whole new m…
How does that differ from Intel's approach?