Crypto is a buzzword that has been thrown around a lot recently, mainly because of the bitcoin-led bull market but also because NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) have become the centre of mainstream interest. The Ethereum price has been on a strong upwards trend to brand new highs and this blockchain protocol is the backbone of the majority of the NFT infrastructure.
The PS5’s base hardware features a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU clocked at 3.5GHz along with a custom GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture which promises 10.28 teraflops and 36 compute units clocked at 2.23GHz. The processors are accompanied by 16GB of GDDR6 RAM and a custom 825GB SSD. It also comes with 667GB of usable storage but we are now seeing methods being introduced to stretch this memory out much further.
The race to design the most powerful computer processors is one of the most intense sports in the tech industry. When Dr. Lisa Su, an engineer by training, took over AMD in 2014 she not only became the first female CEO of a major semi-conductor company; she also kicked off one of the biggest transformations in industry history.
