How does hardware work in a typical video game console? The process between the disc, ram, hdd, cpu and gpu.
And how will that change with the ps5’s new hardware ?
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Not sure what you mean here. A game console is a computing device. They all work the same.
They have a CPU and that's where all the code is executed. The CPU may have multiple cores, and the operating system/app manage which core executes which part of the code and how they all work together.
They have memory, and this is where the data and any code needed by the CPU, while the program is executing sits.
They probably have a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). This is where things like graphical operations are executed, as in the code offsets the processing of graphics intensive operation to the GPU, as they are more adept at dealing with it.
They have storage and it's not switching from HDD to an SSD, no moving part all static ram.
Disk: usually a Blue Ray for game consoles.
As to the PS5, it uses off the shelf AMD components for the CPU and GPU, an 850GB SSD and Blue Ray.
They have a CPU and that's where all the code is executed. The CPU may have multiple cores, and the operating system/app manage which core executes which part of the code and how they all work together.
They have memory, and this is where the data and any code needed by the CPU, while the program is executing sits.
They probably have a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). This is where things like graphical operations are executed, as in the code offsets the processing of graphics intensive operation to the GPU, as they are more adept at dealing with it.
They have storage and it's not switching from HDD to an SSD, no moving part all static ram.
Disk: usually a Blue Ray for game consoles.
As to the PS5, it uses off the shelf AMD components for the CPU and GPU, an 850GB SSD and Blue Ray.
