PlayStation 4 Pro Comes with 1 Additional GB of DDR RAM

When the PS4 Pro was announced in September it was mention that the new model would retain the original PS4 configuration of 8 GB of GDDR5 RAM but with higher bandwidth. Architect Mark Cerny confirmed on Eurogamer that isn't true and the console with include one addition gigabyte of DDR3 RAM.

“We felt games needed a little more memory – about 10 per cent more – so we added a gigabyte of slow, conventional DRAM to the console […] On a standard model, if you’re switching between an application, such as Netflix, and a game, Netflix is still in system memory even when you’re playing the game. We use that architecture because it allows for a very quick swap between applications. Nothing needs to be loaded, it’s already in memory.”

“On PS4 Pro, we do things differently, when you stop using Netflix, we move it to the slow, conventional gigabyte of DRAM. Using that strategy frees up almost one gigabyte of the eight gigabytes of GDDR5. We use 512MB of that freed up space for games, which is to say that games can use 5.5GB instead of the five and we use most of the rest to make the PS4 Pro interface – meaning what you see when you hit the PS button – at 4K rather than the 1080p it is today.”

PlayStation 4 Pro launches on November 10th.

Adam Siddiqui, NoobFeed
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