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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by mortenjorck on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:19PM (#25050310)
This is an interesting line of inquiry. In the gaming console world, a similar principle has been explicitly espoused by Sony in the decision to only go with 16GB of RAM (a smaller factor increase than any previous generation) for the Playstation 5, as the speed of its custom SSD architecture should in theory make that 16GB go a lot further than it would have with a more traditional design.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by JAlexoid on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:30PM (#25051472)
PS5 shares memory with the GPU, doesn't it? Which is different to just using RAM to load games.

I play modern games with RX 5700XT 8GB video card and 8GB RAM machine without issues.... So maybe there's not much need for more memory...

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by wmf on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:25PM (#25050419)
And then PS5 load times are worse than Series X. Whoops.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by lfuller on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:56PM (#25050935)
That's when playing backwards-compatible games (PS4 games on PS5, and Xbox / 360 / One games on Xbox Series X) as Microsoft spent more time optimizing their console to play old games. PS5 loads next-gen titles significantly faster than the Xbox Series X due to the 2.5x faster SSD.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by ERD0L on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:59PM (#25051833)
"significantly faster than the Xbox Series X"

You have every right to support your Sony stocks, but blatant lies though ?

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by whynotminot on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:46PM (#25050783)
That's for reasons that I would expect the technical readership of this site to understand.

Please take this shallow retort back to Kotaku.

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