@odean14 @logokas @ModernArtery This kind of new PC hardware is monstrously impressive. The specific case you’d want to benchmark for games is transfers of textures and geometry from SSD into renderable video memory resources. In this case I opine that PS5 would outperform due to GPU driver overhead.
@odean14 @logokas @ModernArtery There are articles talking about the possibility of Microsoft bringing DirectStorage to PC, with the potential to eliminate the GPU driver overhead in the future. And there’s also Intel’s Optane effort to put non-volatile memory directly on the DRAM with cache granularity.
@odean14 @logokas @ModernArtery For PC enthusiasts, the exciting thing about the PS5 architecture is that it’s an existence proof for high bandwidth SSD decompression straight to video memory. Is this enough to get Microsoft, Intel, NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD to work together and do it? We’ll see!
@odean14 @logokas @ModernArtery Disclaimers:
* We judge game performance by maximum impact to frame rate, not average transfer rate or whatever. Hitches during streaming are what break immersiveness.
* This isn’t a judgment of a particular product. Rather, it’s likely also be true of an infinitely fast SSD.
* We judge game performance by maximum impact to frame rate, not average transfer rate or whatever. Hitches during streaming are what break immersiveness.
* This isn’t a judgment of a particular product. Rather, it’s likely also be true of an infinitely fast SSD.
