Killzone Shadow Fall PS Meeting Demo Used 3GB Of RAM

Posted by: Ernice Gilbert May 14, 2013 in News, PS4, Sony 1 Comment

Did you see the Killzone: Shadow Fall gameplay video that was demoed at the PlayStation Meeting in February? It’s below the break if you didn’t. The game looked better than anything we’ve ever seen on consoles, and although PS4 boasts 8GB of GDDR5 RAM, the fastest and most efficient on the market, the stunningly-detailed Killzone: Shadow Fall demo used a mere 3GB of it. The sky’s the limit, it seems.

Killzone Shadow Fall PS Meeting demo using 3GB of RAM for graphics is an eye-opener… and that’s with FXAA (no multi-sampling).

— Digital Foundry (@digitalfoundry) May 14, 2013

Games that release early in a particular generation are never able to completely utilize the new machines, something that’s completely understandable. It’s usually in the fourth and fifth years that new grounds are broken. Guerrilla Games however, are looking to be early masters of the PS4.

Via Digital Foundry’s twitter.

Dakan45

Back in 2005 that ps3 came out, most pcs had
256mb-512mb of ram. There werent any pc cards that were as powefull as
the consoles. Then 8600gt came out with 1gb ram but ram doesnt make the
gpu better, so 8800GTX came out and it was more powerfull than the
consoles.

Since then pc gpus have been 2gb- 6gb. Due to the low
ram on consoles, games have small maps and use streaming, you enter a
linear area and the game closes the door behind you, unload resources
and load the new ones. Eg dead space. Take a looh how small the maps
where in bioshock infinite compared to the original.

So if
killzone dawnfall already uses 3gb of ram, which is clearly not used
ONLY for video but also for processing just like pcs use ram and vram.
It means that there is 4gb of ram left (since the os will have to use
atleast 1gb) So in the future we will find ourselfs into the same
problem, pcs will gradually get more ram and consoles will have low ram
so they will make again games with small maps and streaming. Sad thing
is pcs are more powerfull NOW.

So much for “next gen”