(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); We originally thought that the PlayStation 4 reserved 1 core and 1 GB of RAM for its operating system. Now Sony has revealed the truth, and it’s much scarier: The PlayStation 4 OS uses two out of the 8 cores, and a whopping 3.5 GB of RAM.

Sony’s PlayStation 4 design docs reveal that developers have “guaranteed” 4.5 GB of system RAM for their games, which can be boosted to 5.5 GB in certain cases, if the developer needs more memory (and Sony would have to approve of this).

This is a big revelation, as it shows a massive OS that runs on the PlayStation 4. The Xbox One uses almost as much, as it has reserved 3 GB for the OS. This is a tremendous jump in memory OS requirements compared to the current generation, where the PS3 and Xbox 360 use around 50 MB (MB!).

When the Wii U was revealed last year, Nintendo was ridiculed for using 1 GB of system RAM (50%) for the OS. Now that pales in comparison to the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One.

We keep praising the PlayStation 4 for its 8 core CPU and 8 GB of RAM, but the truth is, games will only use 6 cores and 4.5 GB. Which doesn’t sound as impressive, to be honest.

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I wonder if this has any truth to it.

Doesn't affect my decision on purchasing a PlayStation 4

This
purchasing PS4 no matter what

this is a rumour, and has not yet been officially confirmed

The PS4 keeps getting interesting and interesting. People are going to soon get enough information about the PS4 and people will begin to get it

Hell even if this is true, Its still going to be a massive improvement over current gen consoles.

This is a rumour but I don't care. Still going to get a ps4. At least the xmb or what ever its called won't freeze.

maybe 2 cores and extra ram is for DL'ing in game, running as it downloads, or messageing people in game.
alot of games lag the keyboard ALOT.

The fact of the matter is this, you still have 4.5GBs of GDDR5 ram for games. That's a ton, most video cards on the market run around 2GB of dedicated GDDR5 ram. Now I'm not saying it's going to be more powerful than a video card since Nvidia and Radeon have different architectures such as Nvidia's Kepler combined with their CUDA cores. (Don't know about Radeon)

And ultimately this is just a rumor, until it comes from the mouth of Sony, it's going to be hard to believe. And if it is true, it will still out perform the Xbox One.