News on the PS4 Press Conference

Sony has given news about the most awaited PS4! More details about the announcement on the press conference HERE.

Sony has released some of the hardware specifications for the Playstation 4 console

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

A CPU is basically the “brains” of a computer, and in this case, the console. A good CPU means that it can handle multiple processes at the same time and can also execute commands really, really fast. CPU’s today are measured with the clock speed. The clock speed is a measure of the speed on how fast it can execute commands. 1hz means 1 electric pulse or “command” and CPU’s right now are measured in GHz. That means CPU’s today can execute at least 1 billion instructions in 1 second!

Sony announced that the PS4 will run on a a single-chip custom processor and utilizes eight x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU cores, with a next-gen AMD Radeon based graphics engine powering the way.

Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)

The “highly enhanced PC GPU” packs 18 GCN units. It essentially means that the GPU packs 18 processing clusters, each packing up to 64 cores. That provides a lot of parallel processing power, and will thus handle the majority of the PS4’s grunt work. It hits 1.84 TFLOPS of processing mojo.

Memory

The PS4 will ship packing 8GB of GDDR5 memory. That’s some super-fast stuff right there and should enable lightning fast performance.

Indeed, Sony has revealed that you will be able to power down the PS4 mid-game and then switch it on again in seconds and pick up right where you left off. That’s the sort of loading power that this memory enables.

Release Date and Release Price

Sony did not give any specific date, but they did say that they would release the PS4 “Holiday 2013”. So from that, make estimations and save up because the estimated price of the PS4 is at around $400 at release.

That is basically the gist of the press conference held at New York City. The only very disappointing news about the PS4 is that it is not backwards compatible. That means that it does not provide native supports for PS3 games.