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Next-Gen PS5 & XSX |OT| Console tEch threaD

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rnlval

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Nope, it was in the same line like that, they were saying "Rayner also shared that the game is already running over 100 FPS" WHILE the game is running at Native 4K with ultra settings and screen-space RT GI.

This is so impressive, it beats RTX 2080 by a considerable amount. WOW!!

I think they have optimized the engine even further and maybe that's the RDNA 2 architecture coming into play here, TFLOPS is more efficient than ever, because this right here beats the RTX 2080 Ti performance.

From https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/9199/gears-benchmarked-1080p-1440p-4k/index5.html


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For Gears 5 (Unreal Engine 4), XSX's "RDNA 2 " based GPU is potent.
 
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So what's everyone thinking on this now that SeX is revealed?
I think whoever put this has heard TF number but calculated his own opinion of CU and GHz.
 
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Its not both pools. Think of it like this, the XSX has two 'arrays' of ram chips, one array has more capacity and the other has less.

To reach peak bandwidth you need to be able to read bytes from all of your chips at once, but because the higher capacity chips have space that doesnt exist on the lower capacity chips you can only read from all the higher capacity chips at once if your using that extra space.

tl;dr
using 10GB you get 320bits
using the other 6GB you get 192bits
I don't know what you mean by "space". So you can't read from both at the same time?
 
I don't think I understand how the ram configuration in series x works. If you have 16GB at 576 GB/s, your maximum theoretical read speed is 576GB/s. But wouldn't having 2 pools, even if one is "only" 336GB/s allow you to access data at peak speeds higher than 576 GB/s when you are using both pools at the same time?

I have the same question. Someone that knows how this works please reply. LOL

Disturbing Side Note: Would the jerks flooding my email with threats please stop. It's clear that someone viewing this site (this all started when OB and the others were razzing me when they thought I was trying to be an "insider" when I wasn't) has access to my Sony gaming profile. Someone has this evening said they were going to burn down my house (and gave an accurate address for where I used to live, luckily I hadn't updated my address on PS in a minute) and other such ridiculousness. Some individuals have even mentioned games that I own and specific achievements, etc. I've never associated my email or PSN ID with this NeoGaf account. Please stop, this is really troubling. I didn't even say anything anti-Sony today, and who cares if I did. Obviously, I have no information about MS or Sony, PLEASE stop the nonsense. I'll start turning this stuff over to the police if this nonsense continues. Sorry for the rant.
 

LED Guy?

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From https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/9199/gears-benchmarked-1080p-1440p-4k/index5.html


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For Gears 5 (Unreal Engine 4), XSX's "RDNA 2 " based GPU is potent.
Yeah that's what came to mind, EVEN if it is not 100 FPS (which it is), you're still looking at...

- Native 4K/60FPS.
- 50% more particle effects than PC Ultra. (can be demanding at times).
- Better volumetric lighting than PC Ultra. (demanding).
- New tech: Contact-hardening shadows. (demanding).
- Screen-space Ray Traced Global Illumination. (demanding).

This already is better than what RTX 2080 Ti offers, we haven't looked at it being 100FPS as well.

Looks like they optimized the Unreal 4 engine even more and maybe the RDNA 2 GPU architecture is 50% more efficient because that with the 12 TFs = more performance than the RTX 2080 Ti.
 
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Sosokrates

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Are you a child? WTF is wrong with you? Seriously.

You just rambled on with a bunch of retarded shit, if that’s what you truly believe over plastic boxes and shit, seek help.

Says you getting all angry, and telling me to seek help, wtf are u talking about, there are people that take this that seriously, its really weird you are so triggerd by me just pointing it out what some warriors are doing.
 
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-kb-

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I don't know what you mean by "space". So you can't read from both at the same time?

I have the same question. Someone that knows how this works please reply. LOL

Disturbing Side Note: Would the jerks flooding my email with threats please stop. It's clear that someone viewing this site (this all started when OB and the others were razzing me when they thought I was trying to be an "insider" when I wasn't) has access to my Sony gaming profile. Someone has this evening said they were going to burn down my house (and gave an accurate address for where I used to live, luckily I hadn't updated my address on PS in a minute) and other such ridiculousness. Some individuals have even mentioned games that I own and specific achievements, etc. I've never associated my email or PSN ID with this NeoGaf account. Please stop, this is really troubling. I didn't even say anything anti-Sony today, and who cares if I did. Obviously, I have no information about MS or Sony, PLEASE stop the nonsense. I'll start turning this stuff over to the police if this nonsense continues. Sorry for the rant.

You can read from the first 10GB at 320bits.
The other 6GB can only be read at 192bits.

The first 10GB will have data that is striped across all of the memory modules to achieve 320bits.
The last 6GB will have data that is striped only across all the higher capacity chips to achieve 192bits.

This is because the higher capacity chips have a memory space (the extra capacity) that does not exist in the lower capacity chips and therefore cannot be striped with them. But this limitation only occurs when you use the extra capacity on the higher capacity chips, therefore if you stick to the first half of the memory space you can read across both the lower and higher capacity chips at once.
 
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Its not both pools. Think of it like this, the XSX has two 'arrays' of ram chips, one array has more capacity and the other has less.

To reach peak bandwidth you need to be able to read bytes from all of your chips at once, but because the higher capacity chips have space that doesnt exist on the lower capacity chips you can only read from all the higher capacity chips at once if your using that extra space.

tl;dr
using 10GB you get 320bits
using the other 6GB you get 192bits
It's kinda reminiscent of GTX 970 (3.5GB fast RAM + 0.5GB slow RAM). It's a cost-cutting measure, nothing more, nothing less.

16GB RAM is cheaper than 20GB of RAM, especially after this (and let's not forget the corona debacle):

IIRC, nVidia eventually did some smart driver tricks to mitigate potential bottlenecks. I guess MS will do the same with their SDK tools.

The only difference is that MS (unlike nVidia) is very upfront in terms of divulging technical details and I appreciate that.
 

DeepEnigma

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Says you getting all angry, and telling me to seek help, wtf are u talking about, there are people that take this that seriously, its really weird you are so triggerd by me just pointing it out what some warriors are doing.

Nobody is angry. It’s your wild fantasies keeping me entertained. Keep going. Please.

I’m trying to figure out your wild shit like this.

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-kb-

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It's kinda reminiscent of GTX 970 (3.5GB fast RAM + 0.5GB slow RAM). It's a cost-cutting measure, nothing more, nothing less.

16GB RAM is cheaper than 20GB of RAM, especially after this (and let's not forget the corona debacle):

IIRC, nVidia eventually did some smart driver tricks to mitigate potential bottlenecks. I guess MS will do the same with their SDK tools.

The only difference is that MS (unlike nVidia) is very upfront in terms of divulging technical details and I appreciate that.

Theres not much you can do to reduce the performance difference. But I imagine that Microsoft will mainly reserve the lower performance pool for the OS to try and reduce its impact.
 

ethomaz

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Sony does use DX for their development. Trust me on that. ND have two different boxes and their main is using Windows with VS compiled to use their special SL wrapper which is essentially HLSL. They then port game to PS5 dev box using it's linux-like OS.

An example of secret sauce still in use today is Nintendo's Breath of the Wild.
I believe Sony uses FreeBSD... that is a BSD-like OS not related with Linux.

The most popular BSD-like OS is Apple MacOS X.
 
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-kb-

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I believe Sony uses FreeBSD... that is a BSD-like OS not related with Linux.

The most popular BSD-like OS is Apple MacOS X.

Im not even going to touch that second comment as I know its pretty volatile.

The reason that Sony uses freeBSD based OS's instead of Linux is because FreeBSD has a lot less restrictions on its license allowing Sony to make changes and also charge commercially for it without providing the source.
 

Sosokrates

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We did read Sony is paying more than MS for cooling, so that may make sense.

Its strange that the leak stated that the PS5 BOM is less then the XSX.
It would be surprising that the ps5 has more ram, a more powerful GPU and is cheaper, all whilen having a more expensive cooling system.

My guess for why this could be the case would be that ms spent more on the overall design, the xsx is a very sleek design regarding its modular design, things like the dual motherboard and fancy fan may have bumped up the price?
 
Those fans of pc gaming are just ridiculous they think the world is trying to trick them, the consoles will be better than more the 98% of pc gaming right now
and that number will still so high for much time even if the rtx 3080 ti is 2 time the XSX because will cost more than double.

That is the consequence when we allow a to a company to sell us GPU with huge margin of profits and this is worst in the SSD side this side will take even more time.

The high GPUs of AMD and Nvidia will be more powerful nobody expects the opposite but the thing here is the price and many people will migrate/return to console
gaming because with hardware price, services like gamepass, digital price are similar or even better than the PC, PC will pass a hard time.

Nvidia specially needs to bring down its prices or for the next year or two will not matter if the 3080 ti is 2 times XSX if cost more than PS5 and XSX together.
 

-kb-

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Its strange that the leak stated that the PS5 BOM is less then the XSX.
It would be surprising that the ps5 has more ram, a more powerful GPU and is cheaper, all whilen having a more expensive cooling system.

My guess for why this could be the case would be that ms spent more on the overall design, the xsx is a very sleek design regarding its modular design, things like the dual motherboard and fancy fan may have bumped up the price?

I think both will have 16GB, but Sony will be using a 256bit bus.
 

ethomaz

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Im not even going to touch that second comment as I know its pretty volatile.

The reason that Sony uses freeBSD based OS's instead of Linux is because FreeBSD has a lot less restrictions on its license allowing Sony to make changes and also charge commercially for it without providing the source.
I guess that is the reason too.
But BSD kernel is pretty stable... even more than Linux kernel... it is faster too due having less things at it core.

Now the second it is just I don’t believe there is any other BSD OS with mass market like Apple... basically all MacBook, iMac, etc uses BSD.

Curious about iOS... is iOS based in BSD?
 
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Disturbing Side Note: Would the jerks flooding my email with threats please stop. It's clear that someone viewing this site (this all started when OB and the others were razzing me when they thought I was trying to be an "insider" when I wasn't) has access to my Sony gaming profile. Someone has this evening said they were going to burn down my house (and gave an accurate address for where I used to live, luckily I hadn't updated my address on PS in a minute) and other such ridiculousness. Some individuals have even mentioned games that I own and specific achievements, etc. I've never associated my email or PSN ID with this NeoGaf account. Please stop, this is really troubling. I didn't even say anything anti-Sony today, and who cares if I did. Obviously, I have no information about MS or Sony, PLEASE stop the nonsense. I'll start turning this stuff over to the police if this nonsense continues. Sorry for the rant.
I know a certain someone who had to self-ban himself due to doxxing many months ago. He sent me a farewell PM and that was it.

Pretty unfortunate, so I guess it's wise to avoid revealing personal details (not even your PSN/XBL gamertag) to internet strangers, even if they seem "friendly". Better safe than sorry.

Theres not much you can do to reduce the performance difference. But I imagine that Microsoft will mainly reserve the lower performance pool for the OS to try and reduce its impact.
Not just the OS, they can also use it for textures and stuff like that.

They'll need the high-speed pool to store the framebuffer and of course there's also a generous amount of SRAM (L2 cache) for tiling (DSBR).
 

-kb-

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I guess that is the reason too.
But BSD kernel is pretty stable... even more than Linux kernel... it is faster too due having less things at it core.

Now the second it is just I don’t believe there is any other BSD OS with mass market like Apple... basically all MacBook, iMac, etc uses BSD.

Curious about iOS... is iOS based in BSD?

iOS is based on Darwin which is based on BSD as well so you could argue that :p.
 
I think both will have 16GB, but Sony will be using a 256bit bus.
I think that PS5 will have 20GB GDDR6 (10 modules and 320bit bus) so the MS's higher bandwidth is gonna be sustained for PS5 and 4GB of DDR4 for OS. That is why BB article points to higher than expected BOM as the RAM prices soared lately.
 

ethomaz

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Where is this smaller die confirmed? Do you have a link/Source?
I don’t think there is any source but all “leaks” points to a smaller chip from Sony.
The same Foxconn guy that said Xbox was aground 380mm2 said PS5 is around 350mm2.

I have a filling the different will be:

- Xbox a bit bigger with slower clock
- PS5 a bit smaller with higher clock
 
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Farrell55

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there's nothing confirmed, I think this comes from a guy who accurately ""leaked"" the dimensions of the Series X's SoC, he also had measurements for the PS5's SoC
Okay so you Expect it can be smaller based on this guy, it will be very exciting to see whats Sony will deliver in the end
 

01011001

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Kinda disappointed that the Series X Controller still uses AA batteries. What's the decision for this? Thankfully I still have the rechargeables.

why wouldn't it? since when do people think more options are a bad thing? you can use the official battery pack, you can use yoir own AA batteries or you can use third party offerings.
I have battery packs made by Energizer for example, they come with a charge dock and last about 10h... cheap, long enough battery life and you just put the controller in the charge dock after you're done playing.

before that I used high quality AA rechargables.
 
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