I'm used to it, I got swamped like that whenever I said PS5 changed architecture to RDNA 2 in the transition between Ariel and Oberon A0, when ever I said Oberon A0 and E0 are the same and the only difference is things like bugs/clocks/yields, whenever I said PS5 probably has 36 CUs and so on, so this is nothing new. You can look for bias or console wars somewhere else, I'm mostly on Era to talk tech.
What I've said comes from deduction , if you disagree with any of my points, you are welcome to lay out your thoughts but just like in previous threads, I mostly ignore comments like "no way Sony is stupid enough to have only 36 CU" because I don't find them very insightful or interesting. This is the thread to discuss the PS5, I'm not going to discuss the PS5's SSD in the Xbox thread, so let's have a real discussion about it without having some people feel too overprotective or emotional because its' the PS5's most precious advantage.
So, This is my logic, feel free to counter point me if you can be respectful:
1) NVMe drives throttle, that's just what they do. A non-throttling NVMe drive is pretty unique and anyone who has that feature will probably be shouting it off the rooftops. Cerny did not talk about it at all so that's the first reason to doubt it's a sustained bandwidth.
2) MS had to go very low in bandwidth in order to have it be consistent, it's not just the "12 channels vs 8 channels" that makes the difference, MS could have easily had a 4GB/s NVMe using 8 channels but they dialed it down considerably in order to have fixed bandwidth. MS, BTW, are shouting it off the rooftop.
3) CPUs and GPUs have fixed clocks on consoles (or at least a few fixed profiles) so if you have a console that has a frequency that isn't fixed, you will probably talk about it because it's unusual for a console. If you have a storage device that doesn't have a fixed speed you might not, considering it's very rare for a storage device to have a fixed speed. So it takes us back to the first point, if you have fixed bandwidth, you would have shouted it from the rooftops, especially if you talk about it for 15 minutes in a tech oriented lecture. If you aren't talking about a killer feature, I will assume you don't have it.
4) Allowing users to upgrade using standard drives that throttle sounds very hard to cool and avoid throttling.
And one last thing, I don't know for a fact if 5.5GB/s is fixed speed or not, but I really don't mind doing an avatar bet with
chris 1515. As I've said before, I think this is the worst avatar ever created, thus, the most amazing avatar ever created. So if I lose, I actually win twice - my launch PS5 will have a faster SSD and I will have the best avatar on Era.
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