There are Nvme ssds that can equal the "speed" of the ps5's ssd, but the "advantage" of ps5's ssd is that it has a customized architecture built specifically for it. There won't be a huge difference irl b/w a pc and ps5 if that's what you're worried about. With RDNA 2 and Ampere we should be able to see comfortable 4K 60fps in upper mid and high end gpus for the pc, something that the PS5 probably can't do.
Transmission speeds (probably due to PCIe 4.0 on PS5).
The PC usually has PCIe 3.0... Of course, very soon it will be not enough, because this / next year will be PCIe 5.0 in the PC(PCIe5.0 is without optics, so it won't be that expensive) ... So PS5 is not so convenient, of course we do not know the price yet, but I assume more than Xbox, which is wrong...
Price is important and Sony should research it carefully so as not to make the same mistake as with the PS3. Now it would have much worse consequences.
The PC usually has PCIe 3.0... Of course, very soon it will be not enough, because this / next year will be PCIe 5.0 in the PC(PCIe5.0 is without optics, so it won't be that expensive) ... So PS5 is not so convenient, of course we do not know the price yet, but I assume more than Xbox, which is wrong...
Price is important and Sony should research it carefully so as not to make the same mistake as with the PS3. Now it would have much worse consequences.
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I think the thing people didn't really get is that when Cerny was referring to the PS5's SSD as being "ahead" (or whatever bs term he used) of a PC SSD, he was referring to an average PC's SSD, ie a bog standard 3gbps NVMe you could pick up from like Samsung and WD, or a SATA SSD that tops out at like 550mbps
The special thing about the PS5's SSD is simply that the way their hardware communicates and loads data from it will be different than the way an average PC does it. and it's going to have a high end "custom" flash controller that can handle more bandwidth than your "average" PC's SSD, which is 100% true: your average NVMe, whether it's a new PCIe 4.0 or whatever, is only going to "claim" to hit anywhere between 1.5-5gbps of bandwidth (but it won't be all the time, it'll usually drop a ton during sustained writes when it runs out of cache). That's pretty far below Sony's 9gbps claim (though this is "compressed" data, uncompressed is only 5.5gbps which is just above the rating of a top end PCIe 4.0 NVMe), and thus it's "ahead" of a standard PC NVMe...for the most part.
However, there are PCIe SSDs that can hit nearly double Sony's rated 9gbps claim. Gigabyte, for example, as the AORUS Gen4 AIC PCIe SSD that can hit a whopping 15gbps, since it uses the full 16 lanes of a PCIe 4.0 slot for consumers...if you had lots and lots and lots of money to waste on a PC component. And there are some enterprise grade SSDs that hit higher than 9gbps as well, though you won't see those in like a consumer PC.
That said, it was 100% a marketing "phrase" to try and convince people who don't really know any better than the PS5 is going to be some kind of super amazing next gen machine, when really it's still just another PC much like every other console in existence.
The special thing about the PS5's SSD is simply that the way their hardware communicates and loads data from it will be different than the way an average PC does it. and it's going to have a high end "custom" flash controller that can handle more bandwidth than your "average" PC's SSD, which is 100% true: your average NVMe, whether it's a new PCIe 4.0 or whatever, is only going to "claim" to hit anywhere between 1.5-5gbps of bandwidth (but it won't be all the time, it'll usually drop a ton during sustained writes when it runs out of cache). That's pretty far below Sony's 9gbps claim (though this is "compressed" data, uncompressed is only 5.5gbps which is just above the rating of a top end PCIe 4.0 NVMe), and thus it's "ahead" of a standard PC NVMe...for the most part.
However, there are PCIe SSDs that can hit nearly double Sony's rated 9gbps claim. Gigabyte, for example, as the AORUS Gen4 AIC PCIe SSD that can hit a whopping 15gbps, since it uses the full 16 lanes of a PCIe 4.0 slot for consumers...if you had lots and lots and lots of money to waste on a PC component. And there are some enterprise grade SSDs that hit higher than 9gbps as well, though you won't see those in like a consumer PC.
That said, it was 100% a marketing "phrase" to try and convince people who don't really know any better than the PS5 is going to be some kind of super amazing next gen machine, when really it's still just another PC much like every other console in existence.
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