Staying true to its claim that the Project Scorpio will be the most powerful gaming console available, Mike Ybarra just announced that the upcoming device has unlocked up to 9GB of GDDR5 RAM for gamers.
We’ll keep tuning Scorpio to empower creators to share the best versions of their games. Unlocked extra GB of RAM for them, now 9GB of GDDR5
— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) June 8, 2017
Originally, out of the 12GB total RAM, four of it was reserved for the system’s functions and dashboard with eight aimed for game quality. But that’s changed, says Ybarra. Now, Project Scorpio will let a full 9GB be utilized for video games instead.
What does this mean for gamers exactly? Games that don’t use the full 9GB will instead allocate the rest towards making it load faster, explained Ybarra in a second tweet.
Games that don’t use the full 9GB, the rest of the RAM will be used as a cache (making things load way faster, etc.). All games = better. https://t.co/yZTGOvBJRx
— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) June 8, 2017
There’s still a lot to learn about the Project Scorpio yet to come at E3 next week, and its no doubt that the powerful gaming console has quite a few of us on the edge of our seats.
