PS5 Loading Times Round-Up (Cold Boot / Resume / Next-gen games)

nib95 · Nov 6, 2020

As other thread OP's don't seem to be updated with results, or contain outlier results, I thought I'd make one that updates to amalgamate times from all different sources, similar to the battery round up thread.

Cold boot/resume.

Digital Foundry

Cold Boot - 14 seconds
Resume - 7 seconds

Digital Foundry said:
It starts with a press of the power button, eliciting the same ping as PS4 - but the similarity from one console generation to the next ends there. From a cold boot, PlayStation 5 is ready for use in less than 14 seconds (halve that if you're coming back from Rest Mode) and right off the bat, you're good to go.

PlayStation 5 review: welcome to the next generation

The Digital Foundry verdict: Sony has delivered a hugely impressive, premium machine with great games that really feels like it ushers in a new generation of gaming.

www.eurogamer.net

Push Square.

Cold Boot - 18 seconds
Resume - 5 seconds

PS5 Review: Is It Good?

Sony's next-gen PlayStation 5 iterates impressively on PS4

www.pushsquare.com

Dave Lee.

Cold Boot - 23 seconds
Resume - 9 seconds

Tom Warren.

Cold Boot - 24 seconds
Resume - 14 seconds

Edit: There's been a fair bit of discussion about why Tom's numbers differ from the others, numbers he's said were similarly achieved on multiple different PS5 systems.

Tom has stated that he believes the difference may be down to the amount of time the PS5 is suspended before turning it back on (supposedly it may take longer after 15m), but we don't have specific comparison numbers from him yet to know the difference for sure, whether other factors may have played a role (eg background tasks, the specific game being suspended etc), nor whether any of the other tests above waited a similar length or time.

We also don't know if he used the same testing methodology (eg waiting 15+mins before re-launching) with the Series X, or with the other PS5's he/his site tested, but I thought I'd update either way.

Next-Gen Games

Spider-Man Miles Morales

Digital Foundry
Boot - 4 seconds
Loading - 1 second

Hardcore Gamer
Boot - 8 seconds (11 to input)
Loading - 2 seconds

NBA 2K21

Forkevo
Loading - 3 seconds
(PS4 version takes 1 minute 19 seconds)

NBA 2K21 Loading Time Comparison - Current Gen vs Next Gen (PS4 vs PS5)

In this video, I'll be showing you the difference between loading time on the next gen version of NBA 2K21 on PS5 vs the current gen version of NBA 2K21 on P...

youtu.be

Will update with next-gen games times as they come. Just tag me in any post or link you find that has new results, and I'll update the OP. The more results and tests, the better.

brokenswiftie · Nov 6, 2020

Why is it so diff?
Is it because of installed games?

or this maybe? maybe Tom Warren has it in Low Power Use mode?

Era Uma Vez · Nov 6, 2020

Wtf is up with those resume times.
Why the disparity?

Mecha · Nov 6, 2020

Nice roundup Nib. Warren's results are puzzling now.

--R · Nov 6, 2020

Times are pretty different between each case. I wonder why it is this way. Great job, Nib.

Izanagi89 · Nov 6, 2020

I'm not looking forward to next gen discourses lol "IT'S 3 SECONDS LONGER?? WHAT IN THE 7 HELLS IS GOING ON??"

nib95 · Nov 6, 2020

Era Uma Vez said:
Wtf is up with those resume times.
Why the disparity?

Not entirely sure. Maybe it depends on whether there are any updates, installs, downloads etc going on at the same time, what game is being resumed and so on.

xir · Nov 6, 2020

this is sort of a non issue in the end if they are all good, but the range here is wild

Abominuz · Nov 6, 2020

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Mecha said:
Nice roundup Nib. Warren's results are puzzling now.

Its not like he is lying, probably how much games are installed and maybe which game is still running when put in standby? Cant see why else the difference?

N.47H.4N · Nov 6, 2020

Why everyone gets different? And why is Tom so out?

eso76 · Nov 6, 2020

Could it be the network ? updating homepage with online stuff?
has anybody tried with the console offline?

bes.gen · Nov 6, 2020

wow looking at that dave2d table,
i guess ps4pro is the most impressive one lol

B.O.O.M. · Nov 6, 2020

Yep this is better for comparisons. Thanks OP. I'm guessing slight differences in set up has led to the differences. Either way it's not bad at all.

oRuin · Nov 6, 2020

Thanks for making this post nib95
Hopefully now people are more informed!

Loud Wrong · Nov 6, 2020

Surprised about the cold boot times. My PS4 Slim boots in 20 seconds. Was expecting the PS5 to boot as quickly as my nearly 10 year old MacBook Pro with SSD.

Deleted member 9857 · Nov 6, 2020

oRuin said:
Thanks for making this post nib95
Hopefully now people are more informed!

was going to post exactly this myself, great work on the OP nib95!

bbq of doom · Nov 6, 2020

nib95 said:
As other thread OP's don't seem to be updated with results, or contain outlier results, I thought I'd make one that updates to amalgamate times from all different sources, similar to the battery round up thread.

Cold boot/resume.

Digital Foundry

Cold Boot - 14 seconds
Resume - 7 seconds

PlayStation 5 review: welcome to the next generation

The Digital Foundry verdict: Sony has delivered a hugely impressive, premium machine with great games that really feels like it ushers in a new generation of gaming.

www.eurogamer.net

Push Square.

Cold Boot - 18 seconds
Resume - 5 seconds

PS5 Review: Is It Good?

Sony's next-gen PlayStation 5 iterates impressively on PS4

www.pushsquare.com

Dave Lee.

Cold Boot - 23 seconds
Resume - 9 seconds

Tom Warren.

Cold Boot - 24 seconds
Resume - 14 seconds

Will update with next-gen games times as they come. Just tag me in any post or link you find that has new results, and I'll update the OP. The more results and tests, the better.

One of these is not like the others.

gofreak · Nov 6, 2020

N.47H.4N said:
Why everyone gets different? And why is Tom so out?

Tom is timing all the way through auto-login, to availability of the dash. It's not clear if everyone's timing the same things, or if in some other cases they were timing just to the login screen? I expect videos from everyone would do a lot to clear up discrepancies.

3bada · Nov 6, 2020

Could network conditions have an impact? This is weird

Namikaze1 · Nov 6, 2020

Thanks for this! Don't know why the other results haven't been added to the op in the other thread.

slimmo.de · Nov 6, 2020

Sure, Tom.

Mister_X · Nov 6, 2020

brokenswiftie said:
Why is it so diff?
Is it because of installed games?

or this maybe? maybe Tom Warren has it in Low Power Use mode?

Tom already commented that he was using the Optimized Experience in the other thread...

Belvedere · Nov 6, 2020

Thanks Nib. I need to go back and check but I thought Arrekz (sp) claimed 7 seconds resume.

Kuro · Nov 6, 2020

The fact of the matter is, both consoles are probably performing different tasks in standby that we are not aware of which could result in such variable times. It might also be dependent on the game that is loaded at the moment.

bbq of doom · Nov 6, 2020

Digital Foundry, as with all things hardware, is the standard here.

arsene_P5 · Nov 6, 2020

Era Uma Vez said:
Wtf is up with those resume times.
Why the disparity?

Could be the simple case of some previewers measuring from push of the PS button to login screen, while Tom for instance measured PS button -> dashboard (auto login done).

Deleted member 45460 · Nov 6, 2020

nib95 said:
As other thread OP's don't seem to be updated with results, or contain outlier results, I thought I'd make one that updates to amalgamate times from all different sources, similar to the battery round up thread.

Cold boot/resume.

Digital Foundry

Cold Boot - 14 seconds
Resume - 7 seconds

PlayStation 5 review: welcome to the next generation

The Digital Foundry verdict: Sony has delivered a hugely impressive, premium machine with great games that really feels like it ushers in a new generation of gaming.

www.eurogamer.net

Push Square.

Cold Boot - 18 seconds
Resume - 5 seconds

PS5 Review: Is It Good?

Sony's next-gen PlayStation 5 iterates impressively on PS4

www.pushsquare.com

Dave Lee.

Cold Boot - 23 seconds
Resume - 9 seconds

Tom Warren.

Cold Boot - 24 seconds
Resume - 14 seconds

Will update with next-gen games times as they come. Just tag me in any post or link you find that has new results, and I'll update the OP. The more results and tests, the better.

The other thread was updated, with threadmarks.

Tiago Rodrigues · Nov 6, 2020

Sounds like these tests were done with different firmware updates or something like that.

arsene_P5 · Nov 6, 2020

Mecha said:
Nice roundup Nib. Warren's results are puzzling now.

Are they? We don't know where DF and all others stopped. If they stop at the login screen, then that's naturally faster than the dashboard as the console needs to auto login for this.

N.47H.4N said:
Why everyone gets different? And why is Tom so out?

We don't know when they've stopped.

Kuro · Nov 6, 2020

doncabesa said:
The other thread was updated, with threadmarks.

People weren't reading the threadmarks and the OP wasn't updating the first post so there was a lot more confusion than necessary. The title of this thread also fits the collection of reviewer experiences better.

Geode · Nov 6, 2020

arsene_P5 said:
Could be the simple case of some previewers measuring from push of the PS button to login screen, while Tom for instance measured PS button -> dashboard (auto login done).

Tom's metric is better for me because I use auto login.

tzare · Nov 6, 2020

These numbers make more sense

Deleted member 9857 · Nov 6, 2020

gofreak said:
Tom is timing all the way through auto-login, to availability of the dash. It's not clear if everyone's timing the same things, or if in some other cases they were timing just to the login screen? I expect videos from everyone would do a lot to clear up discrepancies.

arsene_P5 said:
Could be the simple case of some previewers measuring from push of the PS button to login screen, while Tom for instance measured PS button -> dashboard (auto login done).

the full break down in the other thread from get2sammyb of Push Square contradicts this

get2sammyb said:
I get about 5 seconds from Rest Mode to the User Login screen. Then another 3 seconds from User Login to a suspended game. Didn't watch his video so not sure what he's doing differently to me, but those are the numbers I've been getting.

More in my review here: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/11/ps5_review_-_the_future_of_playstation#loading-times

VanWinkle · Nov 6, 2020

Well that's confusing. Is DF measuring from the moment they press the power button, or when something shows up on the screen?

DeadOblivion78 · Nov 6, 2020

Someone here has to make a standardized testing process for these loading tests.

Geode · Nov 6, 2020

graywolf323 said:
the full break down in the other thread from get2sammyb of Push Square contradicts this

Sammy should post a video too.

tzare · Nov 6, 2020

arsene_P5 said:
Are they? We don't know where DF and all others stopped. If they stop at the login screen, then that's naturally faster than the dashboard as the console needs to auto login for this.
We don't know when they've stopped.

We have to consider that they probably stopped the clock at the equivalent 'point' to compare with XSX. Otherwise it doesn't make sense, does it?

Euler007 · Nov 6, 2020

Era Uma Vez said:
Why the disparity?

Hard to explain, maybe communication issues on login?

Friendly word of advice, careful on your theories...

arsene_P5 · Nov 6, 2020

slimmo.de said:
Sure, Tom.

He literally has video evidence so he isn't lying.

MrFox · Nov 6, 2020

Anything that requires a network state will have significant variations, and contains an additional delay which is outside of the hardware's control.

2Blackcats · Nov 6, 2020

DF are gold standard so nice to see their results are on the the better side

DangerMouse · Nov 6, 2020

Good work rounding them all up Nib.

arsene_P5 · Nov 6, 2020

tzare said:
We have to consider that they probably stopped the clock at the equivalent 'point' to compare with XSX. Otherwise it doesn't make sense, does it?

Of course. But Xbox has a login screen aswell. Thus it could a case of some stopping at the login and Tom stopping for both consoles at the dashboard. I think as long as the rules are the same (both login, both dashboard), then it's Fairplay.

canderous · Nov 6, 2020

There's no standard here. Everyone is likely counting different points as being fully booted up. Tom Warren's Xbox cold boot is 4 seconds longer than the Dave Lee one, for example (yet everyone is focused on the ps5 one).

Can we please not make this the stopwatch gen? jfc...

slimmo.de said:
Sure, Tom.

I mean, it's a video... so unless you're implying he doctored it to make the PS5 look bad, not sure what the point of this comment is.

bbq of doom · Nov 6, 2020

tzare said:
We have to consider that they probably stopped the clock at the equivalent 'point' to compare with XSX. Otherwise it doesn't make sense, does it?

If it's strictly about console comparison: yes, this is all that matters.

FoolsMilky · Nov 6, 2020

From the other thread, can go in the OP next to his (Tom Warren's) results maybe

tomwarren said:
OK so upon further testing over the past few hours, there's definitely some inconsistencies with the way the PS5 resumes. It appears (and I'll need to test fully) that if you resume from rest mode quickly (within a few minutes) after the system enters that state then it takes a lot less time. If you leave your console for like 10-15 mins and resume from standby it takes the time in my video. This could explain the inconsistencies we're seeing in resume times on the PS5. Hope this helps.

Loud Wrong · Nov 6, 2020

More people calling Tom a liar or implying he hates Sony is childish crap. He's got actual videos showing how he timed it. Are you accusing him of faking that?

gofreak · Nov 6, 2020

graywolf323 said:
the full break down in the other thread from get2sammyb of Push Square contradicts this

Ah, ok, thanks. I dunno then!

tzare · Nov 6, 2020

arsene_P5 said:
Of course. But Xbox has a login screen aswell. Thus it could a case of some stopping at the login and Tom stopping for both consoles at the dashboard. I think as long as the rules are the same (both login, both dashboard), then it's Fairplay.

I guess you can also set both consoles to auto login ( I'd say both xbo and ps4 do this, so no reason to not activating it on next gen consoles) so we get a much straightforward way to compare.

The Masked Mufti · Nov 6, 2020

That is amazing. What are the boot times for the base PS4. I feel like my cold boot time is pretty bad but the resume time doesn't take long.

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