Behind The PlayStation 4 Pro By Oliver Staley

   

                  PlayStation 4 Pro Specs


     The upgraded 'PS4 Pro' (originally code named Neo)  product code CUH-7000 uses a more powerful APU initially built with a 16nm FinFET process from TSMC. While the number of logical processor cores  (8) remained the same, clock speed was increased from 1.6 GHz to 2.13 GHz (33.1% improvement in CPU core clockrate), but with the underlying architecture unchanged. The number of graphics compute units on the APU was doubled to 36 Graphics core next (GCN) compute units (from 18), with a clock speed increase to 911 MHz(from 800 MHz), resulting in a theoretical single precision floating point performance metric of 4.19 Teraflops compared to the original PS4 CPU, this is a 2.27X increase in single precision FLOPS. Improvements in GPU 16 bit variable float calculations derived from the newer AMD Vega architecture result in the PS4 Pro having a theoretical half precision floating point performance of 8.39 TeraFLOPS. Overall unified system memory architecture has been improved, with the addition of another 1GB segment of DDR3 DRAM. The PS4 Pro is able to use this increase in memory to swap out non-gaming applications that run in the background, like Netflix and Spotify. As a side benefit to this, an additional 512MB of GDDR5 is available for developers to use for games adding up to 5.5GB, as apposed to the 5GB available on base PS4 hardware. GDDR5 memory speed was increased from 5.5Gbit/s (or 4x1.375 GHz) to 6.8Gbit/s (or 4x1.7 GHz) increasing total memory bandwidth to 217.6GB/s which correlates to a 23.8% improvement.

Resident Evil 2 Remake PS4 Pro Review By Oliver Staley

Resident Evil 2 Remake

    I remember playing the excellent Resident Evil 2 way back when I had a PS One and it was crazy in those days after the first game set in the infamous mansion where would Capcom take the series next they took it straight to the streets and police department of Raccoon City the game was focused round the police department as should I say the key location like the mansion in the first game, where you'd be fighting off zombie police officers and working out puzzles Ala Resident Evil items needing to be placed in certain objects which unlocks another item of use. So how dose the remake feel authentic or is it a remolding that completely takes you away from the feel of the original. Well I say the locations, puzzles enemies haven't changed and I glad to say it's a welcoming return to all things Resident Evil 2 the game was produced with the RE Engine and the graphics have a very Resi 7 feel to it, the game plays like a dream with Leon S Kennedy been a joy to play and the graphics are some of the best graphics out there check out the zombie models you can shot different limbs and shoot actual body parts clean of them. The police station is a marvel to look at with traces of what was once a museum so there's the inclusion of key areas like the art room and library and statues. The action is great with having to find ammo and using it wisely at some point you be able to get access to a shot gun which makes blowing the anatomy off zombies even more satisfying the puzzles are very traditional like the first game where one of your first objectives is to find three medallions to unlock the a underground area this game feels just right in the Resi universe the fresh feel it had when 1,2 & 3 retained the original feel before the Capcom started experimenting with different angles in the series like 4 becoming over the shoulder and more action focused, Resident Evil 2 Remake is the perfect revamp of one of the greatest games from the PlayStation era, brilliant graphics great atmosphere and brilliant traditional puzzles to keep the Resi faith brilliant game great amount of action creepy police station and later you'll discover a hidden underground are which holds more secrets behind the T-Virus, if it's been years since playing Resident Evil 2 make this a come back to marvel at, you love coming back to Raccoon City.

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Excellent)