AMD 4700S Desktop Kit Features PlayStation 5 SoC Without iGPU

[InVasMani]

I think more interesting than this would be if you could put GDDR6 or HBM chips on DDR4 DIMM. Even better still if you can mix them for a tiered memory storage.

 

[eidairaman1]

Drop a card in problem solved...

 

[Mussels]

Drop a card in problem solved...

you missed the previous news post, where it was found to be PCI-E 2.0 x4

 

[80251]

Was the decision to make the one PCIe slot PCIe2.0 x 4 a hardware constraint or a marketeering decision (i.e. to nerf performance with any mid-range or higher discrete GPU's)?

 

[WhitetailAni]

So it's mostly useless because no iGPU and only a PCIe 2.0 x4 link.

Good one, AMD.

 

[Aquinus]

There's however a high latency penalty by using GDDR6 vs DDR4.

Bandwidth, not latency. GDDR variants have a focus on bursting large sets of data as opposed to having more random access characteristics.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I'd love to mess with it you know.

 

[eidairaman1]

you missed the previous news post, where it was found to be PCI-E 2.0 x4

Doesnt matter GPUs can still be used

 

[InVasMani]

I believe the 2.0 x4 slot is shared with the chipset though unless AMD got fancy and somehow fused off CPU lanes and re-routed them like a Paul Walker fast and furious scene to the PCIE card bus.