INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
When it comes to game consoles like the PS5, one thing that truly sets them apart from, say, a gaming PC, is the fact that they're defined
by games, rather than hardware
question likely varies from person to person, and from developer to developer, but power definitely plays an important role
distinct lack of exclusives on Microsoft's platform, as its games all also come out on PC, and make the decision to flock to Sony's
But for anyone that's looking to choose the most powerful console, things just got a bit complicated, and we're here to help make sense of
But, the difference in how the PS5 is going to handle boost clocks vs the Xbox Series X is one of the biggest distinctions between two
platforms that are using pretty similar silicon.The way the Xbox Series X operates, which we've gone into more detail with over here, is
that developers can either choose to utilize the CPU in single-threaded mode with 8-cores and 8-threads or in multi-threaded mode with
The silicon in the PS5 will instead act more like a standard desktop processor, boosting up in clock speed whenever the temperature isn't
too high, and the current workload demands it
There's a catch, though - the max boost clock for the AMD Zen 2-based CPU is 3.5 GHz, lower than the Xbox Series X in hyperthreading mode
Now, Cerny claims that the PS5 will sit at this clock speed for long periods of time, and it's not like we'd be able to actually measure
that even when the system comes out, but that's incredibly optimistic
(seriously), so we don't know what kind of cooling solution will be available, but things might get a little slow and heated over here
Especially as the console's lifecycle goes on and folks' systems inevitably get filled with dust, those turbo speeds are going to go down
And, if Sony is going to rely on that high clock speed to hit its performance targets, people could start to see performance drops the
but they're definitely not the same
The PS5 GPU will be rocking 36 compute units, with a max boost clock of 2.23GHz
clarify what a Compute Unit actually is
Basically, they're similar to CPU cores, in that a GPU will have a bunch of them, and they'll be able to act independently to complete
on the same RDNA architecture, it's safe to assume that each compute unit has the same amount of Stream Processors
So, we're looking at 2,304 Stream Processors in the PS5 GPU, a pretty striking difference
Mark Cerny believes that clock speed is more important, but in our testing of graphics cards over the years, we've never seen a 20% increase
difference in hardware could mean the difference between the PS5 being capable of 4K60 or 4K30
Luckily, the PS5 will still be capable of ray tracing like its Microsoft-branded competitor, but if AMD RDNA 2 is built anything like Nvidia
Cerny made it pretty clear that including lightning-fast storage was a huge deal for Sony with this console
you're playing a big open world game like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Skyrim, there are certain limitations that are put into effect thanks to
system memory, of which there's only a limited amount
Let's say you're wandering around, merrily exploring the world in front of you and a tempting little dungeon or fort appears that you want
The way things work now, the world data is about all that the game can really load into memory without the game turning into a slideshow,
seeing an open world game that only needs to load when you first boot up the game
The most exciting part is that both consoles will be capable of doing this, and gaming PCs with speedy drives will be able to take care of
The next generation of games will look better, sure, but we're going to start seeing open world games that will make The Witcher 3 look like
PCIe 4.0 SSDs like the one found in the PS5 are up to 100x faster than a spinning drive, and while it's unlikely that we'll see loading
Microsoft/LetsGoDigital)PS5 vs Xbox Series XRight now, on paper at least, the PS5 looks pretty inferior to the Xbox Series X in terms of
And, taking into consideration the magic Sony has been able to pull with first-party games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Death Stranding ,the
more in the very near future, but either way, things are starting to heat up in the next console wars, and we're totally here for
