Shortly after the presentation of the engine Unreal engine 5 the head of the company Epic games Tim Sweeney made a rather loud statement – he announced that proprietary SSD today Playstation 5 far ahead all PC alternatives available to the average user.
Of course, such words have led to heated discussions and debates about the current status of SSD technologies, and today they continue to gain momentum. Especially hot conversations on this topic are conducted under the posts of Tima Sweeney on his personal blog.
So, one of the users tried to fix Sweeney and showed him a link to a computer SSD drive Liqid Element LQD4500 Honeybadgerwhose throughput equals 24 Gb / s, which significantly exceeds declared in Playstation 5 a disk, which in turn can process up to 9 gigabytes of data per second.
However, such an example did not force Tima Sweeney backtrack on your words and the president Epic games confidently reiterates impressive performance Playstation 5, even against the background of other outstanding technologies.
I’m referring to actual speed, not theoretical specs. PS5 can transfer and decompress textures and geometry from storage directly into video memory without CPU decompression and driver abstraction overhead, which makes the overall perf much higher than PC.
– Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) June 1, 2023
“I’m talking about real speed, not theoretical values. The PS5 is capable of unloading uncompressed textures and geometry directly into video memory, without having to rely on the CPU and drivers. The overall performance is still significantly higher than on a PC,” Tim Sweeney writes.
Users tried to argue with a specialist, but Sweeney failed to convince.
Recall that now between Epic games and Sony some partnership agreement is in effect. For this reason, the first techno-demo Unreal engine 5 It was launched on the PlayStation 5.
New console release from Sony due at the end of 2023. In turn, the toolkit Unreal engine 5 will fall into the hands of developers in 2023.
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