Amiga
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Learned interesting technical stuff..
- AMD is bringing a new "AMD Advantage" category to PC in Smart Access Storage. Streaming assets from SSD is going to evolve in the PC environment and be a standard like it is in consoles now.
- Decompression is going to shift to the GPU. So freeing up the CPU and skipping a few steps at the same time
- Requires devs to reduce patch sizes to fit stream pipelines. this may result in reduced need for large RAM size. data would flow from SSD to CPU/GPU/RAM in a timely manner instead on needing to load a a big chunk into RAM and then wait for another big chunk to load in the old HDD based pipeline.
- Will require devs to re-engineer their engines to take advantage of it, and makes backwards compatibility difficult. This means leaving behind PS4/XB1/older PC rigs behind for good or using a different dev team to port.
- AMD is bringing a new "AMD Advantage" category to PC in Smart Access Storage. Streaming assets from SSD is going to evolve in the PC environment and be a standard like it is in consoles now.
- Decompression is going to shift to the GPU. So freeing up the CPU and skipping a few steps at the same time
- Requires devs to reduce patch sizes to fit stream pipelines. this may result in reduced need for large RAM size. data would flow from SSD to CPU/GPU/RAM in a timely manner instead on needing to load a a big chunk into RAM and then wait for another big chunk to load in the old HDD based pipeline.
- Will require devs to re-engineer their engines to take advantage of it, and makes backwards compatibility difficult. This means leaving behind PS4/XB1/older PC rigs behind for good or using a different dev team to port.