If you listen closely, you can hear the crickets. That sound is the amount of information being shared by Microsoft and Sony about their next generation of gaming consoles. They have admitted that they are working on them but other than that…crickets. Recently in a sit down with Cradle Games‘ technical director Marc-André Jutras, the folks at GamingBolt asked what the next gen specs might be.
I don’t think we will see 16GB of RAM, most games don’t use that much RAM anyway,” he told the site. “I think the next generation will be between 8 and 12, probably. What you will see however is probably a good amount of cores. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next gen (processor) was Ryzen 2600 or something like that. Because it is really stable, cheap, and has a good amount of cores.
He also revealed that he believed the emphasis will be on 4K capability and that would require a decent amount of VRAM, which is what is causing bottlenecks for the current gaming systems.
One thing that is going to change will be, you will get a lot more focus on the VRAM, which is the big bottleneck right now if you want good 4K games, because 4K frame buffer takes a lot of space. You’ll see more VRAM to support 4K and 5K and whatever else comes around. Just how much of that? I wouldn’t be surprised if the PS5 had 8GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM.
While all this technical talk is great fodder for the tech geeks, what the average gamer wants to know is how will the next gen games play on these new systems and perhaps, as rumored, will it be backwards compatible to the PS4 or XBox One games….or better yet (for this gamer who still has a bunch of his PS3 games), even further. Time will tell.
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