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RAM and bandwidth have always been important for consoles, but times are changing. AMD's new memory tech is good enough to deliver...

Costs did come down for memory compared to the PS5 launch, but at the same time, most other things did go up. Things like silicon...

Yep. To achieve that, initial PS2 releases in PAL territories had Yabasic in their demo disks for programming so that evey machine could...

I was talking about the fact that you cannot guarantee integrity of a game running on an open system like Windows. It's probably less of...

Sure, it could in theory be done better than Steam, but do we really trust Microsoft to be the ones to do it? They may have the OS...

Sure. Strix Halo mini-PCs and Macs with LPDDR5(X) can run LLMs just fine. Dedicating the slower pool specifically for AI doesn't really...

On the Jaguar, smooth and flat shaded polygons are 10-20x faster than even "fast" texture mapping like we're discussing. So, Zero 5...

All very fascinating information, thanks Nammo. So, it sounds like if you pair internal SRAM with the DRAM in any context it's just 5...

No, that's using DRAM as the source and the on-chip line-buffer as destination. 7 cycles is the fastest real games went, indeed using...

Wow, I'm glad I was able to summon you here with it ;) I've been kind of binging Jaguar info (not for the first time...) and your posts...

I'm flattered you cited my post. I spent more time than I should developing hardware and software for the Jaguar. The Jaguar is a fun...

Doesn't that rely on PC Game Pass growth? So again it comes back to, what is going to drive that growth? MS are flirting about a...

With neural compression you can mitigate that. I think they'll go with a smaller bus, otherwise it's gonna be a $1000 console.

HBM. Always the console bridesmaid, never the bride. :)

I think the probability of using HBM in PS6 is low, but not zero. HBM is expensive, but GDDR7 is not cheap and should be more power...