News Game File Sizes on PlayStation 5 Are 60% Smaller Thanks To Crazy Compression Tech

[Admin]

Sony's Kraken compression technology is incredibly effective, shrinking PS5 game s as low as 60%.

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[Heat_Fan89]

That's impressive but Microsoft was doing something similar during the XBOX 360 days when Sony had the BR drive and Microsoft had to massively compress a game on a single HD-DVD. Now it seems it's Sony's turn.

 

[thejeffpower]

It's Oodle Kraken from RAD Game Tools (now part of Epic), which anyone can license.

 

[Giroro]

That's impressive but Microsoft was doing something similar during the XBOX 360 days when Sony had the BR drive and Microsoft had to massively compress a game on a single HD-DVD. Now it seems it's Sony's turn.

Xbox 360 only had a DVD drive. The external HD DVD player couldn't be used for games.

 

[adamboy64]

This just means the system has to use more resources to uncompress (or process) the game somewhere down the line, right?

 

[TommyTwoTone66]

Not every game will compress as well as Subnautica, but certainly this is impressive to see in action.

Yes it uses CPU but the PS5 has so many cores it can afford to dedicate an entire core just to compression.

 

[anonymousdude]

This just means the system has to use more resources to uncompress (or process) the game somewhere down the line, right?

Sony implemented Oodle Kraken and Oodle Texture in conjunction with a custom I/O unit. Namely there is a Kraken decompressor in it specifically to deal with this. So while technically speaking it uses more resources, it is also allocated a specific resource to do the decompression. I think I read somewhere that the decompressor performs like 9 Zen 2 cores or something like that.

 

[watzupken]

With each method, there's pros and cons. Compressing takes up less space, but uses more resources to unpack. In games where CPU is not the limitation, there should be minimal impact. But for games where its CPU intensive, then there may be some performance penalty.

 

[salgado18]

I guess Pied Piper is finally making some money

 

[TommyTwoTone66]

for games where its CPU intensive, then there may be some performance penalty.

No there won’t, because there is a dedicated compression core in the CPU.

 

[d0x360]

No there won’t, because there is a dedicated compression core in the CPU.

Well that would be a shame and mean the Xbox has 1 more core dedicated to games than ps5.

Of course most of the posts here are wrong. Both consoles have dedicated decompression chips.