7 May 2020 the first full-fledged presentation of the new generation console from Microsoft took place . What are the arguments and power of the Xbox Series X against its direct competitor in the face of Sony PlayStation 5 with its revolutionary fast SSD ?
AMD Jaguar PlayStation 4
As is known, on current generation consoles, namely the PS4, very weak technical stuffing, even by console standards. And this created certain problems for developers.. After all, PS4 has an 8-core x86-64 AMD Jaguar as the CPU, and as an AMD Radeon™ GPU with a throughput of 1.84 Tflops. Is it a lot or a little ? Let’s explain with a simple example.
The fact, that the performance of the processor from PS 4 orders of magnitude lower, than the performance of mid-budget CPUs on a PC. Compare Athlon 5150, analogue of the processor on the PlayStation, having on board 4 kernels instead 6, like PS, gives out in the GeekBench test 4 total 2561 points, which in terms of 6 cores will be a little more, how 3200 points. The same cheap Intel Pentium G3250 has 4872 points. And is it even worth talking about the performance of a single console?, even if in modern games it does not always take out 30 fps in full hd without additional optimization, how it was, For example, with GTA 5.
Processor is more important?
So back to the issue of console performance, its useful to note, that both consoles of the new generation will have the same processors, custom-designed, namely, the next generation Xbox Series X console will have an 8-core @ 3.8 GHz (3.6 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU and the same 8-core custom AMD Zen 2, but with frequency 3,5 GHz. As for the GPU, that in Xbox AMD RDNA 2 (12 Tflops) against AMD RDNA 2 (10,28 TFlops) u PS5.
As well as, returning to the performance issue, it is worth taking into account the words of the director of the horror project, in development for the next generation Xbox and PC console “Scorn” Lubomira Peklara. In an interview with MSPowerUser, he said:
We will not release Scorn for the current generation, because we want, to play the game 60 fps, project director said. —It would be almost impossible without great sacrifices. The next generation of consoles delivers responsiveness, smoothness and development for it requires less time.
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Everyone is touting SSDs as the next big thing., and that, An SSD will help a lot with loading and moving materials., he added. —But most of the problems in this generation called the processor. That’s where the biggest difference is compared to the current generation
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Xbox Series X could take over
Based on the above arguments, we can conclude, that the power of the Xbox Series X today is not the main argument in favor of choosing a purchase, but, in future, if Sony starts losing ground in performance, will not be able to meet the demands of developers and players in performance, as well as the Xbox will increasingly begin to delight with high-tech exclusives with good performance, then the leading company in the field of console gaming is in danger of losing a significant part of its audience and in many ways losing the championship to Microsoft.