Nekstgen amazing teraflops – Xbox Series X vs PlayStation 5

Let’s go immediately with trump cards. Presentation (or report?) although it was cognitive, it was clearly not what the audience was waiting for. It was like a dejavu for the presentation of Xbox One at one time. What do consumers want from the presentation of the new console? Roughly speaking, they are waiting for graphics, beauty and enjoyment of the splashing from the screen. Some new game capabilities are preferably with a visual demonstration as they will be good now! And they received, that time, the story that the prefix is rather a media center and we will watch the series there. This time they received theoretical calculations about the possibilities that are available to developers ..

Developers. As we know, on the experience of PS3, the possibilities available to developers are such a thing that units will use. The majority will make on PS5 the same as on XSX and PC and will not spend time and money studying the newfangled engine of geometry and impeccable sound environment. Yes, these are good and useful, but non -standard technologies. And therefore, it seems to me that they will be successfully ignored and forgotten.

What will not work automatically, like a quick SSD, you will only need enthusiasts. There is a small chance that Unity, Epic, and T.p. will build these features into their engines. But how much this will affect the games on these engines in comparison with the same games on the XSX will need to be watched.

On the other hand, we have XSX for which they roll out a rather juicy video that: “Guys, you will be fast, beautiful, juicy and … you will have everything. 1111 AAAAAAAAAA, drove to wet reptiles, capture worlds, amuse and win!»Something like that. Everything will be here, you don’t have to buy again. Everything will become better automatically, HDR Included. And if it also spent a couple of weeks, then it will be just wow!

You feel the difference? Companies from the announcement of the past generation seemed to have changed places.

Characteristics

Sony mutters a pack of technology and hints that the “actual” performance is better than “paper”. But this was also in the last generation. Microsoft offered some magic cloud pieces that will speed up the calculations without loading on Cosnsol … Everyone knows where the Juan was not the normal version.

Computing power

This time T -shirts Prive Casino decided to take in the forehead. Like muscle-Car-no magic technology. You just need to give people and developers what works and what they understand. As a result, the prefix will be faster than the PS5 processor (+100-300MHz, but still), and faster (in theraflops) video subsystem. There is a slight subtlety. The frequency is less (-400MHz), but there are more nuclei (+16 computing blocks). And Sony in his presentation says that the frequency is actually better (clearer and easier to develop) … But, as far as I know, this is not in the case of graphics. Graphics are a well -parallelized task and the number of nuclei there just solves! Well, 2 teraflops of the difference is not 0.2. Still, the standard PS4 version had 2 teraflops, if that, and here you simply get this power in the load on top.

In the appendage, the XSX will always work at maximum frequencies, and PS5 will try to save … energy consumption … The formulation was strange or I did not pay, but it seems that when the CPU has little tasks, it will help GPU perform its tasks (because CPU is a universal thing and can do everything). I don’t know how much teraflops this can give a video subsystem, but everyone knows perfectly well that it’s more slowly in the schedule, because it is universal. So 2 teraflops is unlikely to squeeze in principle. And how much he will be freed and in which game it is not yet known, after all, logic, AI and other events in the world of the game will lie on it.

Here everything is strange at the box. 10GB of fast and 6GB slower GDDR6.

In a curling iron 16GB of average (compared to boxed) GDDR6.

Why is the box made and where did it take +4GB DDR4 in the curling iron that came out before it is not clear. If about 4GB they just silent now and will say later – this may turn out to be a good help for a curling iron in a teraflops battle.

Disk subsystem

From the advantages of PS5 – Faster SSD. Yes, twice as fast (5+gb/s versus 2+gb/s). And the capacity is almost the same (the XSX will not be available about 100GB that will go to the needs of virtual memory) so 800+ versus 900. Well, there will probably be operating systems and t.p. In general, in any case, I believe that less than 2TB now makes sense now. So both decisions are so -so. The disk is faster, but, in fact, it means that what is loaded on PS5 10 seconds will be loaded on XSX 20 … Probably … Because the power of the curling iron is less – the gap can be less, on the other hand, the PS5 will have iron decoders of compressed resources, which can vice versa increase the gap. On the third party, no one said that there would be no such decorator in the box (and it will be guaranteed to be guaranteed) … In general, in any situation on both consoles, everything will be faster, but there is a chance that the advantage will be visible on the eye and over XSX.

Another plus of Sony – they continued their compatibility line with standard drives and announced the possibility of installing additional SSD in format M.2. Personally, I am so quick m.2 on the market did not find. As said in the presentation T.Tserny-you need a PCI-E 4 bus.0 And at the moment, everything that I found uses the PCI-E 3 bus.0. T.e. works at the speed of the XSX disk. In the Xbox, discs will be proprietary extensions. And if now the terabyte of a quick NVME costs about 20k rubles, then it’s scary to assume how much a terabyte for XSX will cost ..

Conclusions

Total, after the HDD era, who will choose what?

Xbox Series X offers:

+ computing power (they say graphics as GTX 2080);
+ total struggle with the lags;
+ reverse compatibility without the need for re -purchase (at least the game with the Xbox One will not have to buy, as I understand it);
+ gampass;
+ possible variations of the console within the generation (based on the name, more and less powerful options are theoretically possible);
+ Elite gamepad with petals and whistles for connoisseurs (which I personally consider a very big plus!);
+ simplicity and understandability of games development (standard DirectX);
– problems with subscriptions in the Russian Federation;
– a slower disc subsystem;
– expensive disk extensions;
– Lack of VR as a class.

PlayStation 5 offers:

+ Ultra -fast SSD;
+ standard disk extensions (most likely to increase the disk will be much cheaper);
+ VR (about which they still did not say anything, but promised that it would definitely be);
+ non -problematic work with subscriptions in the Russian Federation;
± own developments in graphics and sound;
– weaker computing power;
– incomprehensible reverse compatibility (even PS4 games are not all, not about the need for re -purchase at all, I’m afraid of the version launched on PS5 will have to buy again).

For me personally, at the moment, the XSX compared to the PS5 looks like at the beginning of the current generation it looked like PS4 compared to Xone. At that time I moved from X360 to PS4, it seems time to return ..

I’m still waiting for a presentation for the players and what will happen to the VR, but the preliminary conclusions are not comforting (there are many in total on the curling iron) ..