SSD is a lie

[historia]

Turn out it is not.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

TBF, they are running the game on PC with a CPU & GPU well beyond what's in the Series X (or PS5, for that matter). They also have a lot of system RAM, in addition to the GPU RAM. So those things are going to help a lot with data I/O, and their NVMe drive probably isn't too shabby, either.

But at least the PS5 has an extremely robust I/O subsystem built-in to keep up with those types of set-ups when it comes to data I/O. Series X and S don't, and would need a lot more their I/O subsystem offloaded to custom ASICs to do so. DirectStorage is a very scalable approach but that is dependent on the amount of hardware in a setup to help offload things or brute-force through overhead of power.

 

[anonpuffs]

i was told there would be TOOOOOOOOOOLS, man
where's the velocity architecture? sampler feedback streaming? whatever the fuck file compression system they're using?

 

[Snes nes]

Well yeah I mean a gaming rig with expensive parts in it will out do any console that's how it is. It'd be better to find something similarly speced.

 

[Vlado_Millenium]

Series SSD is rated at 2.4 GB/s and that PC SSD is 7.1 so that is 3x faster. CPU is way faster on PC too assuming it is doing some decompression ,so there you have that 4x difference.
The real question is where is the velocity architecture and sampler feedback streaming they were shouting at launch? Bethesda is first party now, I expect them to leverage it.
As far as I know there isnt a single example where series ssd punches above its weight.

 

[flaccidsnake]

Pcie3 vs pcie4

 

[arvfab]

where's the velocity architecture?

Too fast to see it, duh!

 

[anonpuffs]

Too fast to see it, duh!

Velocity tech so fast it went back in time to last gen

 

[Bryank75]

If you have a ton of Ram on your GPU, it kinda bypasses the need for a good SSD but it's very expensive, especially when Nvidia pumps up the price on those specific cards.

But, yes...if price is no pbject, you can definitely outperform the SSD solution.

 

[Kokoloko]

How fast does quick resume work on it? Its a feature I actually like

 

[Shmunter]

Does Xbox have hardware decompression on the i/o? If not the cpu is doing it all, faster, better

 

[historia]

When DirectStorage is being ultilized on PC by two PS5 exclusives, one of them is Sony first party, the other one is Japanese dev who also prioritized PS5 releases, you know what's up.

 

[Summer Nightmares]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

that's tools.....or the lack thereof

 

[anonpuffs]

This meme smells of poverty

 

[Falcs]

I mean there's a reason why it's called the master race.