Re:AMD Announces 7950X3D, 7900X3D Upto 128MB L3 Cache
by wtallis on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:57PM
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> They put a ton of engineering effort into the latest consoles simply to improve that one thing.
Most of that effort was to ensure the processors could actually ingest data at the speeds that off the shelf SSDs could deliver it. The Xbox Series X shipped with what was a low-end NVMe SSD at the time, and the PS5 used a custom SSD controller primarily so they could hit their performance targets using older, slower flash memory rather than being constrained by the supply of the faster flash that was just reaching the market at that time.
And there are still hardly any games that even make a serious attempt to use the available storage performance.
Most of that effort was to ensure the processors could actually ingest data at the speeds that off the shelf SSDs could deliver it. The Xbox Series X shipped with what was a low-end NVMe SSD at the time, and the PS5 used a custom SSD controller primarily so they could hit their performance targets using older, slower flash memory rather than being constrained by the supply of the faster flash that was just reaching the market at that time.
And there are still hardly any games that even make a serious attempt to use the available storage performance.