RDNA 2 GPU and ZEN2 CPU...XSX and PS5 are the closest to gaming PCs ever in console history. Hell these were benchmarked using Windows 10!
Considering this was a replacement of their GDC presentation, I'm guessing you weren't the target audience. It was for game devs.
me...
Tales from their ass. Xbox is straight up better performing. There is nothing to debate for. People are just a bit disappointed which is understandable.
Idk, Sony didn't want to talk about RT specifics. A lot of details on an SSD, even started the briefing with it
This isn't a mobile device. Boost clocks do not always behave that way. Desktop PC CPUs and GPUs are capable of maintaining boost clocks close to 100% of the time when needed, even with their stock coolers. It will be a similar story for PS5 though, admittedly, dependent on circumstance. PS5 boosts based on activity, rather than temperature, so it remains to be seen what type of activity will trigger max clock and what will force lower clocks but when it does hit max clocks it should have no trouble maintaining them indefinitely as long as activity remains constant.
Well, I'm not, actually. I stated in my post that the XSX has beefier CPU and GPU, but the SSD is a lot faster in the PS5 (2.3x) and that the precise impact of the SDD is still difficult to grasp (and most interesting to speculate. My percentage determination was based on the 10% drop in power consumption Cerny mentioned, but to be exact, he didn't actually that that was the actual amount by which power consumption by the GPU needs to drop, so it's probably to go with the 15.4% difference I cited first (the max boost clock number for PS5).
Yes
Most of XSX's RAM is clocked higher than PS5.
That's not how it works when XSX has significantly more compute units and therefore more GPU power than PS5. Also the frequency quoted on the PS5 GPU is only a boost clock, not continuous.
Seeing the specs side by side finally after so much waiting....makes me more hyped than ever before.
Sure, but they already showed it off for the Xbox Series X and it's already lightning fast. Even if the PS5 does have the same thing, any additional speed would be negligible.
In the end, this is an important point for everyone to keep in mind imo. These systems are top of the line gaming machines in 2020, much more than what XB1 and PS4 were when they hit the market. The generational leap will be grand and even high end PCs will not be outperforming these systems by a large margin at launch already I think. This makes both systems quite resilient even as we head into late-gen, I think. Point being: games designed around lightning-fast SSDs that are in both the XSX and the PS5 will see a significant improvement in terms of believability due to vastly improved NPC densities, much better asset loading, and will have the CPU freed up in the process (as was explained in the XSX deep dive article). It'll be an embarrassment of riches in that regard whichever system you go with, and neither can reasonably be called underpowered.
