So This is the first time I am writing on here - I was waiting anticipating the Sony announcements - note before I am a big Sony Fan - I have sony tvs, sony phone, a ps4pro and a switch. Actually completely against MS, at least MS pre Satya Nadella, I still dont trust them, in fact all of my systems run Linux.
I was reading a few comments earlier where people where talking about wayland and x.org and its obvious some of you don't understand operating systems at all, Freebsd isn't a faster kernel that's just nonsense, Sony uses FreeBSD because they can hold back all of the changes they do to the stack, but they do contribute some stuff back with the GPL all modifications have to be shared back, the BSD license is a lot more liberal, in that you can do whatever you want, Sony by and large has been pretty decent, however they obviously hold back whatever major changes they make mostly probably because of security. The only reason Linux isnt dominating the desktop space is because of applications and earlier Microsoft tactics, with embrace, extend & extinguish and vendor lock-in, Microsoft used to be and in some cases still is one of the dirtiest players they were purely about profit and market dominance to the detriment of everything else.
So now I've got that out of the way, Sony have messed up big time. I was really disappointed with the ps4 pro, the games were good don't get me wrong, but the tiling to get to 4K meh, they cheaped out. The PS5 is going to be a big disappointment as well, this is planned for at least 6 years run and out of the gate they have produced something much weaker. I'm sorry that ssd tech is possible because of PCIE4, give it until the end of the year as Cerny mentioned and PC will have way faster nvme ssd tech. If this was released last year, yes this would have been fine, but 2020 ? Seriously?
They completely shot themselves in the foot, the raytracing will weaker as well, completely disappointed. Microsoft did the right thing here 12TF going wide and low was the correct tactic, more CUs gives you much more flexibility and was a minimum to maintain great performance - they once again gimped it for price it will still sell decent, but I'm not even interested in purchasing this, its just utterly disappointing, Instead of tvtvtvxboxtvtvtv this was just a complete farcical ssdssdps5ssdssdssd - a second to 4 seconds meh I mean seriously meh, 36 CU's I mean talk about weak sauce, utter disappointment.
When he said 36 cus and 10TF I just turned off the stream I was no longer interested.
Now what I will say is go back to the MS Reveal and watch it again, a few key points Microsoft stressed the core clock of the CPU and GPU are locked, they emphasised this several times, because they already knew the PS5 would not be locked. Watch through the MS Conference again and its obvious they knew Sony was going to reveal specs and they decided to release the day before to just destroy Sony. There was a few other points they made, almost as if they knew all of the Sony talking points and were ready to counteract them.
Sonys decision to downscale frequency based on load, basically means you cannot guarantee performance, out of the gate most games will be running at less than 10TF and by the end of the generation the performance will only get worse as Developers try to do more - lets not forget less CU's probably less raytracing performance, again what was Cerny thinking ? This is a mess.
If your trying to justify this train wreck I'm sorry there is no point - Sony deserve to lose the next generation I actually hope either Nintendo or Xbox outsells it, just so that they learn this bullshit does not fly, trying to say TF is not a good indicator when all PC gpus are measured by that metric is just a joke. Come next year PCs will be on near 20 TF and here we have a gpu doing at very best 10TF, its just a massive fail.
Sorry I am just venting my frustration over that utterly poor reveal, they stuck their eggs in 1 basket and its just a disaster. What about VR ? Surely having a gpu with more CU's would be beneficial here, surely having a stronger GPU would be more beneficial for VR ... So Disappointed.
HeisenbergFX4 has your buddy budged on the 9.5TF or is he still firm on it?
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