Memory will be one of the most important specifications of the PS6 and Xbox Next, the next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft. PS5 and Xbox Series X have 16 GB each of them, although with a different configuration and distribution, because the Microsoft console uses two groups of memory with different bandwidths, which makes its performance not uniform.

If the current generation consoles have 16GB of unified memory, how much memory should the PS6 and Xbox Next have? It’s a very interesting question. If we go by the precedent we saw with the previous generation The logical thing to do would be to think that this new generation should double in size the total capacity of the current one, but the truth is that this is something we cannot yet take for granted.

They had an Xbox One and a PS4 8 GB unified memory and PS5 and Xbox Series 16 GB memory, also of uniform type. However, the PS3 and Xbox 360 only had 512 MB of unified memory. If we do the math, we’ll see it move to PS4 and Xbox One the total amount of memory multiplied by 16and with the PS5 and Xbox series

This simple analysis tells us that we should not take it for granted that with the next generation the amount of integrated memory will necessarily double. PS6 and Xbox series

Digital Foundry analyzed this issue quite precisely, taking into account both the cost of integrating more memory into the console and it can have a real impact on performance in games something that still raises some doubts.

In this sense, one of the most important problems is the unification of memory it will not improve performance if it is not actually usedwhich also happens on a PC, where having 64 GB of RAM is useless if we don’t run applications or games that can use these amounts, in fact this is one of the most important myths when we talk about RAM.

Therefore, it wouldn’t make any sense PS6 or Xbox Next configured with 48 GB or 64 GB of unified memory, because these huge amounts would not be used and would only increase the final price of both consoles. Both are most likely equipped between 24 GB and 32 GB unified memory. Personally, I’m leaning more towards them having 32GB.

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