Comments on: ‘Next Car Game’ Dev on PS4’s RAM Latency Claims And Next Gen Development Costs

By: JoeD

JoeD — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:12:00 +0000

God damn, everyone just shut the F up!

By: Michael Lee Kunschner

Michael Lee Kunschner — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:09:00 +0000

By: Michael Lee Kunschner

Michael Lee Kunschner — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:08:00 +0000

In reply to HDShatter .. Was looking at 7970 for next build, with the law of diminishing return, it alone should outlast this gen of consoles. So beastly.

By: George Valkhoun

George Valkhoun — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:27:00 +0000

In reply to HDShatter .. who cares.

By: George Valkhoun

George Valkhoun — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:24:00 +0000

In reply to kreammer. Nobody cares. It's all about the games. Besides, the PC is dying. Also, console optimization goes a long way. Nothing is really optimized on PCs. You're just adding more Mhz to make everything run faster. PCs lose once again. PS4 for the win.

By: George Valkhoun

George Valkhoun — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:20:00 +0000

In reply to Guest. Once again, PS4 for the win *yawn*...

By: Nathan O

Nathan O — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 01:42:00 +0000

In reply to YnotNDalton. and yet the CPU's in PC's are still using DDR RAM

By: Jecht_Sin

Jecht_Sin — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:17:00 +0000

Really? With all the gamelay videos out alredy they are still keeping going on with that latency crap? Which is just 20% higher anyway. Nothing the CPU caches can’t deal with.

By: YnotNDalton

YnotNDalton — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:10:00 +0000

These latency issues ppl are talking about is a crock of crap … Bandwidth is what graphics processing relies on.. latency has minimal impacts on it thats why nvidia and amd put gddr5 on high end graphics cards not ddr3… ppl need to use thier common sense.

By: HDShatter .

HDShatter . — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:57:00 +0000

In reply to kreammer.

If you own a decent desktop its cheaper to add a GPU than buy a new console anyway:

Raderon R9-280x (improved 7970 thats cheaper), out right now – $300

PS4: not out for 1 more month – $400

R9-280x:
2048 Stream Processors
3GB Vram + System ram (newer boards support up to 32 or 64.), ddr4 is becoming the standard next year and will blow away the gddr5 and have super low latency.
384-bit GDDR5
Core Clock 1000MHz
Boost Clock 1050MHz
Effective Memory Clock 6000MHz
4.8 Teraflops, overclocks to over 5
System Memory Bandwidth: 288GB/sec

PS4 GPU:
1152 Stream Processors
8GB of GDDR5, shared between vram and ram usage so its really only 2-3 available for vram and the rest for ram
256-bit GDDR5
Effective Memory Clock 5500MHz
1.84 teraflops
System Memory Bandwidth: 176.0GB/s

As you can see the new upper mid range PC card from AMD blows away the PS4.