During this long stay at home are you looking at adding a gaming console at your home and finding it difficult to choose between PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. We are here to help you, read on and get the best console for your family.
While both Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X are powered by an 8-core processor manufactured by AMD. While Sony has promised improved graphics rendering power with incremental computational power, Xbox Series X with 12 teraflops of power will render effects and particles better than ever before. Thus, the comparison will be tough as both are offering to play games in 8K resolution.
Microsoft decided to make Xbox upright in 2019 and has now confirmed that Xbox Series X can be stored in either way. Looking at the glimpses we have seen yet it looks super sleek in matte black. The Sony Playstation 5 has not confirmed on its design but the patent sightings tell us that it won’t look much different. Sony PlayStation might get a futuristic update with the two-tone black and white design. However, Xbox X seems to have an upper hand on design.
The big question is if the price points will break the $500 benchmarks. However, looking at the current economy both companies would like to keep it below the $500 price point. Some market rumours point that Xbox might be a little costlier based upon its higher power. Although, we still await any official update on the pricing.
Let us look at some game expectations from each:
Xbox X:Xbox X seems to be getting away on the game expectations also both might launch with a tie-up with Google Stadia, which will be Google’s foray in online gaming.
Microsoft will be slightly trimming the controller to adapt to more human hands and will also add a share button to share progress or screenshots directly. They will also allow existing Xbox One or Elite Series II, controllers for their aficionados.
Playstation is rumoured to add buttons at the back and will leave it to people to map it to the functionality they wish to, the previous Dualshock 4 was a design that was accepted widely by the fans so even if there are minimal changes it will be a piece of great news.
Playstation seems to be heading ahead on the controller front.
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PS5 | Xbox Series X | |
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CPU | 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency) | 8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.66 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU |
GPU | 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency) Custom RDNA 2 (Supports Ray Tracing and 3D Audio via Tempest Engine) | 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU |
Memory | 16 GB GDDR6/256-bit | 16 GB GDDR6 w/ 320mb bus |
Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 10GB @ 560 GB/s, 6GB @ 336 GB/s |
I/O Throughput | 5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed) | 2.4 GB/s (Raw), 4.8 GB/s (Compressed, with custom hardware decompression block) |
Internal Storage | Custom 825GB SSD | 1 TB Custom NVME SSD |
External Storage | USB HDD Support | Seagate Proprietary External 1TB SSD Expansion Card, USB 3.2 HDD Support |
Expandable Storage | NVMe SSD Slot | 1 TB Expansion Card (matches internal storage exactly) |
Optical Drive | 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive | 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive |
Controller Features | USB Type-C, Haptic Feedback, Adaptive Triggers, Microphone, Rechargeable Batteries | New Trigger and Bumper Grip, Hybrid D-Pad, DLI, AA Batteries |
Max Output Resolution | 8K | 8K, 4K @ 60 FPS, Up to 120 FPS |
Max Refresh Rate | 120Hz | 120Hz |
Backwards Compatibility | PS4 games, PSVR | Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One - including accessories |
VR Support | Yes | No |
Price | GBP 400-£550 | GBP 400-500 |