Comment by cmovq

16 days ago

Interestingly the original Pi had the same amount of memory as the PS3 which was available at the time of the Pi release. Still amazes me how much we did with only 512MB.

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jsheard  16 days ago

And you didn't even get the luxury of unified memory on the PS3 - the CPU and GPU had separate 256MB chunks.

I can still barely believe they got Grand Theft Auto 5 running on that thing.

  • MBCook  16 days ago

    I think it’s more amazing it’s the latest GTA not only had been V for 3 console generations, but it’s still selling well.

RetroTechie  12 days ago

> Still amazes me how much we did with only 512MB.

Or the other way around: still amazes me how many GBs today's machines need to do conceptually simple things. Things that were done ages ago (successfully, if not better) on much, much, much lower-powered kit. Never mind CPU speed.

Eg. GUIs have been done on machines with a few 100s Kbytes of RAM. 'Only 512MB' is already >1000x that.