PS4 Pro Comes With One Additional Gigabyte of DDR3 RAM

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When the PS4 Pro was revealed, it was mentioned that it would have retained the original PS4 configuration with 8 GB of GDDR5 RAM, albeit with higher bandwidth, but that’s not entirely correct, as revealed by System Architect Mark Cerny today in an interview on Eurogamer.

On top of the cutting-edge GDDR5 RAM, the console will also include one additional gigabyte of slower DDR3 RAM, which will open up a few possibilities.

“We felt games needed a little more memory – about 10 per cent more – so we added a gigabyte of slow, conventional DRAM to the console […] On a standard model, if you’re switching between an application, such as Netflix, and a game, Netflix is still in system memory even when you’re playing the game. We use that architecture because it allows for a very quick swap between applications. Nothing needs to be loaded, it’s already in memory.”

“On PS4 Pro, we do things differently, when you stop using Netflix, we move it to the slow, conventional gigabyte of DRAM. Using that strategy frees up almost one gigabyte of the eight gigabytes of GDDR5. We use 512MB of that freed up space for games, which is to say that games can use 5.5GB instead of the five and we use most of the rest to make the PS4 Pro interface – meaning what you see when you hit the PS button – at 4K rather than the 1080p it is today.”

Cerny also clarified that developers can use the additional RAM as they see fit. It’s certainly not an enormous boost, but every little bit helps.

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Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/10/20/ps4-pro-comes-one-additional-gigabyte-ddr3-ram-mark-cerny-reveals/

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XBL-ABPosted:

Vladimer PS4 is for sure the better gaming console of this generation.


Lmao.
Ignorant console boys dont know anything of RAM.
1 GB of RAM does nothing good

MickersPosted:

Vladimer PS4 is for sure the better gaming console of this generation.


I think you're dreaming chief.

ATLatimerPosted:

PS4 is for sure the better gaming console of this generation.

KatsumiPosted:

Oh that's sure interesting. So you're using the DDR5 RAM to complete processing heavy applications (i.e. gaming) while the slower DDR3 RAM is being used for suspended applications and tasks that are not processing heavy. As such, they will be freeing up more DDR5 RAM.

This really is a cool idea when you think of it

9ntyPosted:

They should of closed their lips about this one, doesn't make a difference.

HaloPosted:

Nick That's really cool. Wish xbox did stuff like this


The new Xbox is going to be a lot better than this.

DeftonesPosted:

512MB RAM? Why would they even announce this, doesn't make much difference.

GaryPosted:

Saki 512mb of RAM isn't a lot and isn't going to do much with real world performance. The problem is the lackluster GPU specs not the amount of RAM it has.


But muh flops and gigglebytes

MajPosted:

512mb Is really much but better than nothing i guess

DecyPosted:

Nick That's really cool. Wish xbox did stuff like this


Xbox don't need to do stuff like this.