Wednesday, November 21st 2018
AMD 8-core Ryzen APU to Power Sony Playstation 5, Says the Rumor Mill
Sony's announcement of the Playstation team skipping E3 2019 took everyone by surprise aside from a few on Reddit who had paid attention to a thread created the day before. Reddit user RuthenicCookie seemed to know a lot more about Sony's plans for their popular game console for the next few years, as well as game titles supporting this current console generation and the next. Amidst a lot of the tasty rumor bits that should interest console gamers, something more relevant to us directly is the mention of the Playstation 5 to continue using AMD for processing power.
This is a logical move to just about everyone familiar with the industry, and Sony needed to up the CPU horsepower in particular to compete with the XBOX One X and offer a true 4K/60 FPS solution for gaming without framerate drops galore. As such, said redditor shared information saying that the current plans involve an 8-core Ryzen-based processor and an estimated console price point of $500. Sony may well share a teaser about the console next year, with retail availability expected in the holiday season 2020 (two years from now, thus). As such, developer kits are likely already ready meaning the specs are finalized as well. This may mean we will see either the first or second gen Ryzen APUs, and not Ryzen 2 as many may have hoped. No word yet on what Microsoft is cooking in their side of the kitchen, but incremental console updates means we may see a Ryzen 2-powered console sooner than later as well.
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Reddit user RuthenicCookie
This is a logical move to just about everyone familiar with the industry, and Sony needed to up the CPU horsepower in particular to compete with the XBOX One X and offer a true 4K/60 FPS solution for gaming without framerate drops galore. As such, said redditor shared information saying that the current plans involve an 8-core Ryzen-based processor and an estimated console price point of $500. Sony may well share a teaser about the console next year, with retail availability expected in the holiday season 2020 (two years from now, thus). As such, developer kits are likely already ready meaning the specs are finalized as well. This may mean we will see either the first or second gen Ryzen APUs, and not Ryzen 2 as many may have hoped. No word yet on what Microsoft is cooking in their side of the kitchen, but incremental console updates means we may see a Ryzen 2-powered console sooner than later as well.
85 Comments on AMD 8-core Ryzen APU to Power Sony Playstation 5, Says the Rumor Mill
Games are written in exactly that way, target resolution/perf constrains scene comlexity.Dear god...
One condition to be is to add Keyboard and Mouse support like the X-Bone.
3D-rendering in Direct3D, OpenGL and Vulkan can fundamentally scale to any resolution, the only difference resolution makes is how visible the details or lack of details will be. Unless there is something very funky going on in post-processing effects, any game should be able to scale up in resolution. And there is not any special features or code to "optimize" a game for 1080p, which will make the game suck at higher resolutions.
If a game wants to render higher resolution models and more advanced animations for different resolutions, the game have to be coded explicitly to do so.There is still time to ask for forgiveness ;)
No games are coming close to utilizing the full potential in current hardware. In today's market, game development is driven by short-term financial gains, not by technical achievements. The coders are usually moved from project to project, and long-term maintainability and overall quality of code is usually not prioritized. It has become more and more common that games are nearly "broken" when released, and only sort of works after 3-6 months of patchwork.
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Wonder if Ryzen 3### is delayed too. If yes, TSMC could be having problems.