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8. Mark Cerny preferred using unified GDDR5 RAM instead of a separate eDRAM for the PS4.
If you are tech freak then you would understand the importance a faster memory. The GDDR5 which is capable of 176GB/s bandwidth, is incredibly fast and efficient. Mark Cerny did however thought about an alternative memory which is the GDDR5 memory with 88GB/s bandwidth along with a small amount of eDRAM which had a bandwidth of 1000 GB/s. This would bring the total bandwidth to 1088 GB/s but created a lot of complexities. Cerny eventually opted for a unified memory.
