Nick Penwarden believes that what will truly characterize the PlayStation 5 is not so much its power as the speed of its solid memory.
Epic Games had to rewrite some of the code parts for its new engine, Unreal Engine 5, to accommodate the high speed of PlayStation 5 SSD storage memory. Epic Games member Nick Penwarden revealed in VG24 / 7 that the real leap for the next console is Sony will come with its stunning ultra-fast storage memory.
“PlayStation 5 offers a huge leap in both computing and graphics performance; but it is the architecture of its storage that makes it truly special ”, he begins by saying. “The ability to stream content at extreme speeds enables developers to create denser and more detailed environments, changing the way we thought about streaming content,” he says.
“It is so shocking that we have had to rewrite our I / O subsystem [procesamiento de entrada y salida] for Unreal Engine 5 with PS5 in mind ”, because the initial design lagged behind that speed that PS5 memory will be able to achieve.
Unreal Engine 5 running on PlayStation 5
How will the PlayStation 5 SSD be
The person in charge of the architecture of PlayStation 5 is Mark Cerny, in charge of which we now talk about a console with an 825 GB SSD memory at speeds of 5.5 GB per second. As Cerny explained, its design is intended to achieve total optimization with the 12 channels that make up its particular data highway, also directed by a PCI Express 4.0 four-track controller, a solution with the objective of achieving a bandwidth of 50-100 mb per second, so the difference with PS4 is huge: about 100 times greater.
PS5 does not have a release date yet, but it will be released in late 2020 with a catalog of games that we will know soon. The event to present its first titles was planned for June 4, but has been postponed indefinitely to show solidarity with social protests over discrimination and police violence against the black community.
In this article, we review the main keys of Unreal Engine 5, the new Epic engine, which is expected to be commercially available by the end of 2021. Over the next year we will see its results from some selected studies.
