Sony: PS5 Game Data Processing Speeds 100 Times Faster Than PS4 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 October 2020 / 3,106 Views
Sony has been touting the speed of the solid-state drive in their upcoming video game console, the PlayStation 5.
Sony Interactive Entertainment during the recent corporate strategy meeting said the PS5 will be 100 times faster than the PS4 in-terms of the game data processing speeds thanks to the SSD.
"In order to further enhance the sense of immersion in games, we expect to improve not just the resolution, but the speed of games," said Sony in the report.
"For example, through a custom‐designed high‐speed SSD, we plan to realize game data processing speeds that are approximately 100 times faster than PS4.
"Game load times should be much shorter, and players should be able to move through immense game worlds in almost an instant."
The PlayStation 5 will launch in Holiday 2020.
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Well yeah, a mechanical hard drive's random access time is devastatingly slow in comparison.
What is especially funny is that the 100x improvement is probably even true for the sustained read/write comparisons. And that is just because Sony is going from a worse-case scenario HDD target (a 5400 RPM laptop drive with a small cache) to an absolutely bleeding-edge best-case scenario SSD (a custom 12-channel PCIe 4.0 x4 drive) lol
Yes but the whole system has to be optimized to utilize the full potential of SSD, it's not just a replacing the HDD with SSD. SSD on ps4 resulted in marginal speed difference and in many cases there was no difference at all between ps4 with HDD and ps4 with SSD.
Anyway I need to see to believe, always take what those companies say with grain of salt
The reason why there was only a marginal performance improvement was because the Playstation 4 was using a SATA 2 interface for it's drives which limited throughput to 300MB/s.
If Sony had PCI-E 4.0 and a decent CPU, then users would only notice only a marginal improvement going from the Playstation 4 to Playstation 5.
The Playstation 4 was also extremely CPU limited which impacted load times, contrary to popular belief, the CPU is responsible for handling allot of memory transfers as well, it's not all about storage.
Either way the big benefit of an SSD on the Playstation 4 was access times, when a random read/write was performed... Mechanical Hard Drives performance would tank, I wouldn't be surprised if the Playstation 5 was 150x faster or more in such scenarios.
It's truly exciting stuff.
Well the SSD in PS5 is about 100x faster than the HDD on the PS4.
Awesome info! Cant wait of the new PS5-Games from Japan and the west!! With Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us 2 in July/June, we nee the new Graphic-Highlights in Videogaming-World. And the new ultimate System is the PS5 in future then :)
Cpu needs more love and attention
It's 100 million times faster than playing board games with my mom.
That’s a hundred times the fun!
Really wish we could get some new headlines. How many developers need to parrot this talking point
Yeah. There is like 99% of the rest of the console that are worthy of being talked about.
Ray Tracing, 3D Positional Audio and so forth.
Exactly. SSD are not new tech. But every website has developers preaching as if it's the second coming. We. Get. It. The SSD is going to be amazing, speeds are going to be faster than ever before. It's the same song and dance with every generation, it just seems like now developers are regurgitating the same sentence every week and trying to make it sound revolutionary.
SSD is an old tech but why is special because finally we will able to utilize it to the fullest thanks to the mainstream and console. Many console tech are inspired from PC. The problem is game developer having a hard time to implement new tech on gaming PC due to price, and lack of user and demand. That's why console exist to promote those PC tech.
The only thing I'm worried about it the replacement cost for a SSD like this. $$$
@Poroporo, the NVME SSD will be expensive for two or three year (after that it will be cheaper depend on the size) no doubt, but games now (thanks to SSD) will be smaller in comparison and PS5 will have a features that you can instal small part of the games without having to instal everything. Also the instal time will be super fast.
Definitely won't be cheat. You'd have to buy a 6.5ish GB/s Gen 4.0 NVME, that DOESN'T need a heatsink. Can't imagine they'd be cheap (plus questionable thermals).
