How A Console Could BEAT Your PC - Directstorage

Learn about how the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5's new storage paradigms could vastly increase performance.

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[shinji]

I know it's weird, but I actually kinda enjoy loading screens. It gives me time to study in-between game sessions. I passed medical school thanks to GTAV.

[StarStudios.mp]

*Title:* A console could beat your pc
*my 7 year old pc with intel hd graphics:* Always has been

[samuraivader]

Words i hate the most: "The game must support said feature individually"

[PC-qxbv]

i hope my intelhd graphics supports direct storage aswell

[mobykanob]

UPDATE: Nvidia 2000 series cards will also work with Direct Storage I/O

[Sir_punchwood]

This is basically James' little kingdom at LTT at this point lol

[carbonn]

A console can beat my PC cause my PC can't even start games that's after 2011> lol

[Ingenium]

Him: How a console could beat your pc
Me with a chromebook: 😑

[WouterVerbruggen]

Looking forward to a direct storage benchmark and see if a faster SSD will finally yield some actual benefits!

[MagCynic]

It's not that consoles are beating PCs, it's that consoles are slowly becoming more and more PC-like.

[Lusty_]

aint some fella already put crysis onto 3090 on board memory??

do a build..

[nhggr]

0:11 "modern games" **battlefront 2015**

[Mallchad]

Uuhhhh.
Yeah that particularly example of assets popping in is more to do with LODs.
As well as models being swapped as at percievable distance when being read from a drive...
DirectStorage would not explicitly change this fact, only give developers more headroom to be more aggressive with how often assets are loaded from memory and how far away and has late and all that jazz.

[MegaLPlover]

*insert generic joke about having low specs/intelhd graphics here

[MDxGano]

2 years later and no tangible in-game benefits from the 2 games that support it?. Slow clap on this one capitan.

[qdllc]

I was thinking the issue would be that consoles have a lot less overhead to run a game...so better performance with lower specs while a PC has to juggle everything loaded into memory while playing a game.

[Razor]

If you monitor the read speed when loading some very large games, it is common for an NVMe SSD to hit over 1GB/s, though some assets require additional processing, e.g., if they use a a CPU intensive compression method where game assets also need to be decompressed before used. This is largely because many game devs are still designing games with mechanical hard drives in mind, and don't seem to want to invest in developing an SSD mode where if selected, loading can be optimized take advantage of additional storage speed to not load as much since data can be reliably streamed from the SSD.

[othersideguy]

I hope you realize that object pop in isn't necessarily related at all to storage speed, its extremely likely related to the LODs (level of detail) of that individual object and at the distance it pops in is it changing from a higher lod to a lower lod, reason for this is higher lods have far less detail to be viewed at a far distance compared to up close being the full detailed model.

A good example is a car lets say at LOD5 is only a very basic shape that resembles the rough shape of the car and would have 500 polygons at a distance of 700 meters, now lets say LOD0 is right up next to the car and it would be full texture and model detail at 250, 000 polygons

This is a graphics model optimisation technique, not a storage speed limitation

[XcentrcK]

When did gaming journalism get so good? Factual tech data with visuals? You're spoiling us! ... Subbed. :)

[andreiarg]

Ah yes, finally I can wait 1 hour instead of 2 for GTA Online to load.