Next Generation Hardware Speculation with a Technical Spin [pre E3 2019]

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I'm guessing Sony is about to really start sending out devkits and real leaks will happen so might as well get a head of it.

But it didn't expect to see it come out like this, so random. But at the same time, this will not really register in the mainstream, but will satisfy the core audience that's already there and waiting for the news.
 
Nothing else makes sense since they’re claiming higher bandwidth than PC drives. Unless there’s a proprietary interconnect. Zen 2 is known to support 4.0.

Zen2 has tons of PCIe lanes, so they could just be using more of them then is typical (x8?)

Edit: Even that wouldn't be necessary. PCIe 3.0 x4 goes up to 3.94GB/s.
 
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I think so too. But without really knowing if the code has been altered it's hard to tell what the BC strategy is, or the depth of it. For now I'll call it BC. But I think official statements will help clarify this one.
 
Just read the wired article.
Wonder what exactly the RT is all about.
I did raise the question here before if it could be used for object based audio and AI, which he seems to be implying.
It could be optimizations to CU's to allow tracing to be done a bit more efficiently in compute, rather than RT cores.

Zen 2, 8 core was also confirmed.
Core count was the only detail other than general uarch that it's based on. Nice their talking though.
I couldve easily seen them being quite for a very long time, even with just this amount of info.

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Also ps4 BC finally confirmed, which expected but is nice they finally said it.
 
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The SSD isn't a surprise and I'll say I called it. "I know it’s impossible, but can we have an SSD?" said every dev ever because it changes the fundamental way you can access data. Interestingly though, it sounds like Sony have gone very specialist which I think smart. I expect it to be smaller if it's that much faster as they claim. I think faster SSD and more medium level RAM is probably the better balance for game worlds (not visuals) than slower storage, faster RAM.

As for hardware RT support, we need to wait and see how exactly and what sort of performance it's getting. Very nice to hear that it's being included for flexibility though, not just graphics. And it should tie in with the 3D audio too, which is very exciting. My surround headphones definitely give me an edge in Apex Legends.
 
In fact if this wasn't wired+cerny I would be calling these "specs" bullshit. Individually believeable but to get them all?!
To be fair not really detailed any specs apart from 8 core and some form of ssd.
If it was just a leak we would be saying mostly buzz words with zen and navi thrown in which was expected.
 
Interesting claims about fastest SSD, but it certainly could be done if they wish to achieve this. Pcie4 + custom nand controler( no off-the-shelf part curently build like that) + software stack optimised for expected tasks, even moreso if bolted on motheboard further reducing latency etc.
 
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