PS5 Will Have An SSD, Almost 19 Times Faster Than PS4

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Mark Cerny recently revealed a great deal of new information on the next generation of PlayStation when he sat down for a conversation with Wired. We’ve been able to learn a lot about its specs, its support for backwards compatibility, and whether or not it will support PlayStation VR. But the one aspect of the PS5 that excites Cerny more than anything else is- its hard drive.

The PS5 will be using an SSD (or a Solid State Drive), and though exact details about it wasn’t something Cerny went into, he did give a taste of what we can expect. With Cerny calling it “a true game changer” and “the key to next generation”, the PS5’s SSD will significantly cut down load times.

In one tech demo, Cerny put on Spider-Man on a PS4 and initiated a fast travel screen- the load time for completing fast travel was fifteen seconds. Cerny did the same on a devkit for the PS5 (which was supposedly an early “low-speed” kit), and the load time was cut down significantly- going from fiifteen seconds to 0.8 seconds, which is almost nineteen times faster.

“The raw read speed is important,“ Cerny said, “but so are the details of the I/O [input-output] mechanisms and the software stack that we put on top of them. I got a PlayStation 4 Pro and then I put in a SSD that cost as much as the PlayStation 4 Pro—it might be one-third faster.” The end result, of course (at least based on this one demonstration) is far better that that.

The SSD will also have applications in other areas- for instance, the speed at which the game’s world is rendered, or the speed at which the character moves in-game. Using a similar demonstration across the PS4 Pro and the PS5 devkit, Cerny showed not only the in-game camera moving at the speed of “a fighter jet” (as the report puts it), as opposed to the speed at which Spidey himself was moving.

“No matter how powered up you get as Spider-Man, you can never go any faster than this,” Cerny said of the limitations on current gen hardware as opposed to next gen hardware, “because that’s simply how fast we can get the data off the hard drive.”


This was far from an official unveiling of the PS5, of course (we don’t even know if it will be called the PS5), so we can expect to hear loads more about it- hopefully in the coming months. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for continued updates.

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AnimePosted:

Well it should be faster than the PS4 in general.

TimeSplittersPosted:

Mario350
Two_Faced So like just as fast as an Xbox one? Lol


lol xbox one is slower then a ps4 unless you put it in standby mode so you dont have to sit at the xbox logo for 15 to 20minutes, so no not as fast as an xbox 180 its more so as fast as a pc with an ssd according to what i understood.

but yeah xbox one is slower then a ps4 for starting up the console


Lol you're an illogical moron. PS skin licker at heart. I can start my console connected to my IP from my phone and walk in my room and bam Xbox is ready. 60 second when FULLY OFF is quite fast, especially when all my games play flawless and my servers don't go down for Half a year (which time can't be made up for lol).

Mario350Posted:

Two_Faced So like just as fast as an Xbox one? Lol


lol xbox one is slower then a ps4 unless you put it in standby mode so you dont have to sit at the xbox logo for 15 to 20minutes, so no not as fast as an xbox 180 its more so as fast as a pc with an ssd according to what i understood.

but yeah xbox one is slower then a ps4 for starting up the console

Two_FacedPosted:

So like just as fast as an Xbox one? Lol

MazePosted:

ReckzXPP If the rumors are true Xbox will most likely come out with something bigger


If Xbox surprises everyone with a console announcement, it's safe to assume they will be pretty similar. If they do, in fact, wait to announce and release a console then they will have better hardware but the longer wait.

ReckzXPPPosted:

If the rumors are true Xbox will most likely come out with something bigger

RuiPosted:

The issue with this is the word Limitations, purely down to cooling, by the time they have delivered upon their "Next Gen" console, Microsoft will already have experience in the area making limitations for them easier for them to over come.

XboxPosted:

This PS5 has me intrigued, have to wait and see what Xbox has up their sleeve though!

LebronIs6Posted:

peer yeah i'm buying a ps5 goodbye xbox


Lmao odds are the Xbox will also have relatively the same thing

TTGPosted:

I believe Xbox will have the same thing, SSD is a great way for next gen consoles.