Playstation 5 [PS5] [Release November 12 2020]

https://blog.playstation.com/2020/10/28/stand-against-the-end-of-the-world-in-tribes-of-midgard/

Stand against the end of the world in Tribes of Midgard

Gather your tribe and face mythical foes in this survival action-RPG launching on PS5 next year.

Explore the beautiful wilds, encounter mythical beasts, and face mighty Jötunn (Giants) to gain the strength you need to protect the Seed of Yggdrasil. Hunt animals, harvest resources, and fight all manner of enemies to gather what you need to craft weapons, armor, potions, and your village’s defenses.



Gather your tribe and stand against Ragnarök in Tribes of Midgard! Coming to PlayStation 5 and Steam in 2021, this co-op survival action-RPG pits you against the end of the world. Prove yourself as a lone Viking or form a tribe of up to 10 players. The odds are against you, but Valhalla can wait!

Explore the beautiful wilds, encounter mythical beasts, and face mighty Jötunn (Giants) to gain the strength you need to protect the Seed of Yggdrasil. Hunt animals, harvest resources, and fight all manner of enemies to gather what you need to craft weapons, armor, potions, and your village’s defenses. Plan ahead, because when night falls, Helthings emerge and attack the Seed. And with each passing day, they’ll grow stronger as Ragnarök—the end of the world—approaches.

No matter how you play, your tribe has a home for you. So gather all you explorers, builders, Giant slayers, and defenders of the Seed, because Ragnarök awaits!

 

That unboxing video now has now 7.6M views. In general non apple videos from him seem to have 1.5-2.5m views. Xbox impressions video from 1month ago has 2.1M views. Unboxing video is still top 3 trending video on my area. It might hit 10M views. His ps5 impressions video has 5.6M views.

The console impression videos seem to align with marketshare occupied by previous gen consoles. Unboxing is going through the roof. I guess sony trickle marketing did create curiosity and demand for content. Good for sony on managing their marketing well.

 

I also strongly believe that, as absolutely bloody frustrating as it has been, Sony’s strategy of basically ignoring everyone, and then dropping surprise news here and there, has the effect of “breaking the internet” every time, as the pent up demand for info then explodes into millions and millions of views/hits/clicks.

Which, paradoxically, may actually mean that these views may be inflated and may not represent the real demand for the product. Or they’ll sell a billion of these things, who knows!

We won’t know until a few months and years from not, really.

 

https://blog.playstation.com/2020/1...evealed-your-november-playstation-plus-games/

PlayStation Plus Collection details revealed + your November PlayStation Plus games

PS Plus members who own a PS5 console will get the PS5 version of Bugsnax; all PS Plus members get Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition as part of November's lineup.

Next month is an extra special one for PlayStation Plus members. As we approach the launch of PS5, we are pleased to share more information about the PlayStation Plus Collection*, along with your monthly PS4 games.

In November, PlayStation Plus members will receive two PS4 action-adventure games – Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition – dropping on Tuesday, November 3. We’re also thrilled to announce PlayStation Plus members who own a PlayStation 5 console will receive Bugsnax (PS5)** when PS5 launches, beginning November 12.***

PlayStation Plus Collection
PlayStation Plus members will be able to enjoy a special new offering on the PS5 console – the PlayStation Plus Collection. PS5 console owners with PlayStation Plus will be able to redeem and play a curated library of PS4 games that defined the generation, like Batman Arkham Knight, Bloodborne, Fallout 4, God of War, Monster Hunter: World, Persona 5 and many more.

The PlayStation Plus Collection will be available* on November 12 when the PS5 console launches in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea, and November 19 when the PS5 console launches throughout the rest of the world, including Europe, Middle East, South America, Asia and South Africa.

Here are the games available in the PlayStation Plus Collection.

From Worldwide Studios:

• Bloodborne
• Days Gone
• Detroit: Become Human
• God of War
• Infamous Second Son
• Ratchet and Clank
• The Last Guardian
• The Last of Us Remastered
• Until Dawn
• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

From our third-party publishers and developers:

• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Battlefield 1
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
• Fallout 4
• Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
• Monster Hunter: World
• Mortal Kombat X
• Persona 5
• Resident Evil 7 biohazard

 

No wonder PS5 is safely pushing 2+Ghz. Got the go ahead from AMD.

 

So the PS5 GPU is basically half of that in CU count but similar clocks?

 

AMD Navi RDNA 2 thread is over here -- https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/amd-radeon-rdna2-navi-rx-6800-xt-2020-10-28.62091/

Minus the Infinity Cache.

EDIT: Though the way they label the clocks is different. Game Clock is 2015 Mhz, and boosts up to 2250 Mhz.

 

"PS4 games redeemed from the PlayStation Plus Collection and played on the PS5 console will see benefits such as increased loading speed and improved or more stable framerates with PS5’s Game Boost****."

So the games in the collection will run in boost mode and not pro or base mode ?

 

@Xbat Here's the footnotes for the PSPlus Collection blog entry. I was hoping it would provide further details about "Game Boost" but it only disclaimers BC with majority of PS4 titles, then links off to the BC page we've already seen @ https://support.playstation.com/s/article/backward-compatibility?language=en_US

 

From reading sources, we should be using Game clocks and not peak boost clocks.

So from a TF standpoint, and since we are using the same architecture to compare,

This is where stuff stand:

Relative performances and stats

 

neither PS5 or Series seem based on anything in the 6000 series lineup Just looking at specs here.
They pulled over the CUs and some feature sets, but the GPUs on both model closer to RDNA 1 I suppose for backwards compatibility. Perhaps not, I'm not entirely sure.

 

This isn't certain yet.

In fact, Anandtech seems to point out that Infinity Cache is instrumental in reducing the GPU's power consumption, which in turn is a great part of what allows Navi 21 to clock as high as it does.
The PS5's GPU clocks could be an indicator that it is carrying a similar implementation of GPU LLC.

AMD also claimed their GPU LLC is "high density", meaning it's perhaps consuming less die area per capacity than the Zen's L3.

 

RGT said that there is a possiblity PS5 has it
Plus Cerny mentioned a "generous" SRAM in the SoC

 

It doesn't seem particularly strong anchor point. XSX matches the 6800 game clocks right on spec as well as nearing the number of CUs.
But architecturally looks very different as does PS5.

 

The fact that AMD didn't talk much about RT makes me wonder about how good RT will ultimately be on these consoles...

 

PS5 memory interface is 256 bits just like all RX 6000 series.

 

HTC Sense UI is that you?

 

These are things that are up for any sort of customization as required.
I'm looking at things like shader engines and arrays CU counts etc. Unless they are also releasing another GPU that is 1/2 the size of the 6800XT, then I can follow along.

 

Block counts don't tell you anything. It's fully customizable and arbitrary and just comes to nailing down a target die size and power envelope.

 

I guess for me, I don't see relevance in this infinity cache when you only have 36 CUs. The bandwidth requirement is low considering what you need to feed. The infinity cache looks specifically tailored at providing a bandwidth alternative for the large 60+ CUs.