For the PS4, Sony wants pre-owned games to go Bye Bye

[Fire$torm]

Just another reason to stick with the PC. Open Source Gaming!!!!

[John P. Myers]

Since the "no 2nd-hand games" rumor has been debunked by Sony themselves, it may be worth mentioning system specs:

Sony Senior Staff Engineer Chris Norden told GDC attendees that the 8-core 64-bit x86 CPU was capable of running 8 hardware threads. The machine can run graphics and computational code synchronously providing up to 1.843 teraFLOPS of graphics processing power while still leaving headroom for computation. Even so Norden stressed the chips will be low power consumption and low heat emission parts.


CPU: 64-bit x86 architecture, low heat & power consumption, 8x cores, 8 HW threads, 2MiB L2 cache per 4 core group, 32 kib|1 I/D-cache
RAM: 8GB 256 bit GDDR5
PS4 Shader Language is very similar to HLSL, allows features BEYOND Direct X 11 and OpenGL 4.0

The 8GB of GDDR5 is shared between the CPU and GPU, reducing time spent by the GPU asking the CPU for something from RAM. Assuming you can install Linux, this will be a very useful cruncher.

[zombie67]

"8x cores, 8 HW threads"

I assume that means a non-intel CPU then. Are there any 8-core intel CPUs that aren't HT?

[John P. Myers]

The CPU and GPU are both AMD this time, same with new Xbox, except all you get is DDR3, a severely bloated OS, and 1/3 less processing power.

[DrPop]

The 8GB of GDDR5 is shared between the CPU and GPU, reducing time spent by the GPU asking the CPU for something from RAM. Assuming you can install Linux, this will be a very useful cruncher.

So would this be something of a hybrid - CPU projects with more GPU type RAM speed, or is that too much to hope for?