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Why does the Playstation 3 have split memory pools? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry for this kinda gamerbrained question.

The Xbox 360, Playstation 4, Xbox One, honestly most consoles after the Playstation and Saturn have shared memory pools. It allows flexibility in how much memory and VRAM developers want to assign, right? Why does the PS3 not have a shared 512MB pool of GDDR3? It caused all kinds of problems, most notably with Bethesda games.

Is it the Cell Broadband Engine needing the specialty XDR memory? Is it an artifact of the Nvidia RSX graphics chip being added late in development? Looking back I a)most wonder if the split memory was more of a problem than the Cell tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Xbox does not have console roots. Its a pc at heart.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

what-the-hell

...yes comrade, all consoles do. All consoles are. MIPS (PS1, PS2) is from computers. PowerPC (Gamecube, Wii, Wii U) is from computers. 6502 (NES, SNES) is from computers. 68000 (Mega Drive) is from computers. Quick, what console is NOT a PC at heart?

The Xbox and One both use x86, and they have some software roots in Windows, but not only does that not really relate to the question I asked, all Xbox systems have shared memory anyway.

reddit-ass "well ackshually smuglord " comment

In a word: so?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

no need to get mad at someone for just posting a comment

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a pointless entirely offtopic "heh gotcha" style comment that contributes nothing, in addition to lecturing me on things I already know. I wasn't even being mean or rude really.

Also click their username, they are a lib.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

no need to get mad at someone for just posting a comment

Bad posts are one of the worst things ever.

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