With the Nintendo Switch tearing up the sales market in more ways than one, Microsoft and Sony are working hard to ensure that their next-gen consoles do the same thing. We know that the PS5 and the Xbox Scarlett (codename for now) are coming out, the companies confirmed it themselves. But, what will be in them, what they will do, and how they will “boost” the past versions of themselves is a mystery. Or is it?
In an interview with GamingBolt, Cradle Games’ technical director Marc-André Jutras talked about what he feels will be the specs for the next generation from Xbox and Sony:
“I don’t think we will see 16GB of RAM, most games don’t use that much RAM anyway,” he told the site. “I think the next generation will be between 8 and 12, probably. What you will see however is probably a good amount of cores. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next gen was Ryzen 2600 or something like that. Because it is really stable, cheap, and has a good amount of cores.”
He went on to talk about changes you might expect in the transition from the current-gen to the next-gen consoles:
“One thing that is going to change will be, you will get a lot more focus on the VRAM, which is the big bottleneck right now if you want good 4K games, because 4K frame buffer takes a lot of space. So if you end up with a 4K buffer, you need four times the VRAM. So I think you will see, you won’t see shared RAM space next gen like you do with the PS4. I don’t think you will see that because it’s a big bottleneck. You’ll see more VRAM to support 4K and 5K and whatever else comes around. Just how much of that? I wouldn’t be surprised if the PS5 had 8GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM.”
Obviously all of this is speculation, but he has been accurate in the past, so we’ll just have to see how it goes.
