Wednesday, November 21st 2018
AMD 8-core Ryzen APU to Power Sony Playstation 5, Says the Rumor Mill
Sony's announcement of the Playstation team skipping E3 2019 took everyone by surprise aside from a few on Reddit who had paid attention to a thread created the day before. Reddit user RuthenicCookie seemed to know a lot more about Sony's plans for their popular game console for the next few years, as well as game titles supporting this current console generation and the next. Amidst a lot of the tasty rumor bits that should interest console gamers, something more relevant to us directly is the mention of the Playstation 5 to continue using AMD for processing power.
This is a logical move to just about everyone familiar with the industry, and Sony needed to up the CPU horsepower in particular to compete with the XBOX One X and offer a true 4K/60 FPS solution for gaming without framerate drops galore. As such, said redditor shared information saying that the current plans involve an 8-core Ryzen-based processor and an estimated console price point of $500. Sony may well share a teaser about the console next year, with retail availability expected in the holiday season 2020 (two years from now, thus). As such, developer kits are likely already ready meaning the specs are finalized as well. This may mean we will see either the first or second gen Ryzen APUs, and not Ryzen 2 as many may have hoped. No word yet on what Microsoft is cooking in their side of the kitchen, but incremental console updates means we may see a Ryzen 2-powered console sooner than later as well.
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Reddit user RuthenicCookie
This is a logical move to just about everyone familiar with the industry, and Sony needed to up the CPU horsepower in particular to compete with the XBOX One X and offer a true 4K/60 FPS solution for gaming without framerate drops galore. As such, said redditor shared information saying that the current plans involve an 8-core Ryzen-based processor and an estimated console price point of $500. Sony may well share a teaser about the console next year, with retail availability expected in the holiday season 2020 (two years from now, thus). As such, developer kits are likely already ready meaning the specs are finalized as well. This may mean we will see either the first or second gen Ryzen APUs, and not Ryzen 2 as many may have hoped. No word yet on what Microsoft is cooking in their side of the kitchen, but incremental console updates means we may see a Ryzen 2-powered console sooner than later as well.
85 Comments on AMD 8-core Ryzen APU to Power Sony Playstation 5, Says the Rumor Mill
To me Bloodborne, Persona 5, Uncharted 4, Last Guardian, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider-Man, RDR2, Detroit are more than worth playing, unless you can tell me wich PC games can surprass those. Oh wait, you mean a random 16 bit daily released Steam game? No thanks.Yeah sure. 2x8gb of 3000mhz ram still cost 220€ in my country and a B450 board with acceptable VRMs (not that tomahawk or prime junk) cost around 140€. Talk about "kidding yourself". Also I would never pair Ryzen with 3000mhz as it depends so much on ram speed. 3200 is the bare minimum I would go with Ryzen, otherwise would instead stick to 2nd hand Haswell platform.
"Vega 56 performance" -> yeah sure, because Sony would waste resources on a new gen, just to barely beat the current Xbox One X. Makes total sense.
Can you even tell me the latest great pc exclusive? Crysis?
PS5 GPU would be around 50-60% faster than what X1X has to offer, that's a massive difference.
next gen titles on consoles look like current gen titles on pc, so nothing new there
there is already a console like in that zubar apu that includes 4 core ryzen and some vega graphics
next gen console is basically last gen pc hardware
Example:
Shadow of the tomb raider on all current gen consoles looks signficantly better than PC version of the Tomb Raider 2013.
But hardware-wise your statement is somewhat true.
You heard it here folks, confirmation that AMD is run by lizard people!
Do you see how just saying you got the info from an anonymous source doesn't actually mean Jack?
Vega 56 is 45% faster than RX 580 at 4K which is almost what I said.
(based on TPU performance summary)
You need to research more than I need, it might solve your ignorance problem.
People complaining here about Jaguar cores; i think you need to look at who assembles those consoles and not AMD. It's not like AMD held a gun to MS or SONY with here, implant these jaguar cores or else! It's just that once time passes and games get more and more optimized, the CPU's are starting to show it's age.
I'm pretty sure you could make a fantastic console with a Bulldozer CPU.
Rome - 64C/128T (8 chiplets)
Threadripper - 64C/128T (8 chiplets)
Ryzen CPU - 16C/32T (2 chiplets)
Ryzen APU - 8C/16T (1 chiplet)
PS5 - 8C/16T (1 chiplet)
I think AMD is going to go with chiplets instead of monolithic APU for better yields. My expectation is that PS5 GPU will be a monster. Navi is the first major GCN GPU architecture since the introduction of GCN in 2012. I think the main focus for Navi is efficiency and scalability. My prediction for PS5 and 7nm AMD GPUs is as follows
Navi 12 - 2560 sp
Navi 10 (PS5 GPU) - 5120 sp
Navi 20 - 7680 sp
blogs.spjnetwork.org/ethicscode/?p=125Do you honestly think Forbes would publish anything less?Xbox 360 was PowerPC based.
@Sony - put the money into a GPU.
This, of course, pales compared to what Greedia has to offer:
We could have been 4k right here today, if devs would not target 1080p.
While most games certainly could squeeze much more performance out of the hardware, it usually comes down to poor code quality. Most games are rushed, recycled game concepts, and many uses pre-made game engines. I don't see the majority of top titles changing their focus to proper code quality anytime soon.