Current Gen Consoles - What bit!?

Christo · 21 Jun 2013 at 12:30

So the Master System was 8bit, Megadrive 16 bit.. But what 'bit' could the PS4 and Xbox One be?!

Begbie · 21 Jun 2013 at 12:31

x86 architecture isn't it? So I'd imagine in someway equivalent to 32bit.

But that was all marketing anyway.

Chandler_90 · 21 Jun 2013 at 12:32

I'm, not sure as I think the 'bit' is relavent to the processors involved, I was young at the time so I may be missled.

Although it could be a generation reference.. in which cast they would be around 256 bit lol

ps3ud0 · 21 Jun 2013 at 12:38

It was related to the processor (the length of the instruction set AFAIK), so I guess we are still 64bit, 32bit was 32x wasnt it? Pretty sure we gave that all up since the PS1...

ps3ud0 :cool:

fendi · 21 Jun 2013 at 13:10

N64 = Awesomeness.

Davey_Pitch · 21 Jun 2013 at 13:48

ps3ud0 said:
It was related to the processor (the length of the instruction set AFAIK), so I guess we are still 64bit, 32bit was 32x wasnt it? Pretty sure we gave that all up since the PS1...

ps3ud0

x86 is 32-bit architecture as well though, so I really have idea what the next gen would be classed as.

Edit: I just remembered it can be both 32 or 64 bit, so I guess that's where we're at.

ps3ud0 · 21 Jun 2013 at 13:50

Davey_Pitch said:
x86 is 32-bit architecture as well though, so I really have idea what the next gen would be classed as.

Yet the AMD Jaguar is x86-64/AMD64 so a 64bit processor

ps3ud0

Davey_Pitch · 21 Jun 2013 at 13:51

ps3ud0 said:
Yet the AMD Jaguar is x86-64/AMD64 so a 64bit processor

ps3ud0

I remembered that, see my edit

FoxEye · 21 Jun 2013 at 13:53

To address 8GB RAM it has to be 64 bit (or more accurately, cannot be 32-bit

)

deusexlumina · 21 Jun 2013 at 13:56

next gen will be 64-bit, however it doesn't really matter anymore tbh.

Davey_Pitch · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:00

FoxEye said:
To address 8GB RAM it has to be 64 bit (or more accurately, cannot be 32-bit )

I have no idea why my brain didn't pick up on that, I work in IT for god's sake, that should be obvious!

ps3ud0 · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:03

Davey_Pitch said:
I have no idea why my brain didn't pick up on that, I work in IT for god's sake, that should be obvious!

I am at all not worried for the users you support

. Ive never worked in IT at all :eek:

ps3ud0

antijoke · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:03

That's evolution for you.

I'm going to pre-order CoD:Ghosts for my Genesis.

:mad:

Davey_Pitch · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:22

ps3ud0 said:
I am at all not worried for the users you support . Ive never worked in IT at all

ps3ud0

Cheeky git

I'm just a little stressed today supporting 1000+ users and 650 machines all on my own!

manic111 · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:24

Davey_Pitch said:
Cheeky git I'm just a little stressed today supporting 1000+ users and 650 machines all on my own!

Probably ought to stop posting your dream Everton team in the football forum then

Davey_Pitch · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:41

manic111 said:
Probably ought to stop posting your dream Everton team in the football forum then

I'm allowed a lunch break!

Edit: And it's Friday afternoon, last lesson. If it breaks now it can bloody well wait until Monday

HeX · 21 Jun 2013 at 15:52

ps3ud0 said:
Yet the AMD Jaguar is x86-64/AMD64 so a 64bit processor

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

antijoke · 21 Jun 2013 at 16:32

HeX said:
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

We've gone full circle. I remember being in awe of the Jaguar when I saw it at Beatties in Leicester, it was then blown away when I read about the Playstation in issue of 1 Play.

/head explodes

Skeeter · 21 Jun 2013 at 22:19

The architecture is different. What was 64bit in the N64 is not the same as an x64 CPU. It was all marketing anyway, just trying to say something was faster than something else.

The PS2 was 128bit.

This explains it well:

Bit ratings for consoles largely fell by the wayside after the 32/64-bit era. The number of "bits" cited in console names referred to the CPU word size, but there was little to be gained from increasing the word size much beyond 32 bits; performance depended on other factors, such as processor speed, graphics processor speed, bandwidth, and memory size.
The importance of the number of bits in the modern console gaming market has thus decreased due to the use of components that process data in varying word sizes. Previously, console manufacturers advertised the "n-bit talk" to over-emphasize the hardware capabilities of their system. The Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2 were the last systems to use the term "128-bit" in their marketing to describe their capability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo...oles_(sixth_generation)#Bits_and_system_power

Basically the architecture changed from just making processors take larger length instructions, to processing 32 or 64 bit instructions quicker. the PS4 and XBO will be heavily based on 64bit PC architecture, but that doesn't mean they are only half as powerful as the PS2