A look towards the next gen consoles
The current gen of consoles were launched around the period of 2013 and were appreciated a lot for the amount of improvement over the graphical fidelity and design by the gamers and reviewers. There have been multiple mid cycle launches to be more competitive and provide options for the consumer to choose from.
Considering the actual generational upgrade were over a year ago. It's high time that the consoles family meets their successors.
Lets first talk about the
Xbox Series X
Honestly speaking the opinions are very mixed. Some say that they loved the minimalistic design and how it will totally match with the design of their computers,monitors et cetera and some criticize it cause it looks like you know just a "box".
Here are the technical specs
- CPU: 8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.66 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU
- GPU: 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU
- Die Size: 360.45 mm
- Process: 7nm Enhanced
- Memory: 16 GB GDDR6 w/ 320mb bus
- Memory Bandwidth: 10GB @ 560 GB/s, 6GB @ 336 GB/s
- Internal Storage: 1 TB Custom NVME SSD
- I/O Throughput: 2.4 GB/s (Raw), 4.8 GB/s (Compressed, with custom hardware decompression block)
- Expandable Storage: 1 TB Expansion Card (matches internal storage exactly)
- External Storage: USB 3.2 External HDD Support
- Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive
On paper the new Xbox is stronger in graphical raw-power than the PS but that doesn't mean by a huge margin and similarly the PS has a faster SSD which will enable even faster loading times,open worlds and better resource management.
Before going in depth regarding the both consoles let check the latest offering by Sony
PlayStation 5
This console has also faced its fare share of online wrath. The memes made of this console were also hilarious but whatever happens, happens for good.
Lets take a look at the technical specification of this one
- CPU: AMD Zen 2-based CPU with 8 cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency)
- GPU: 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
- GPU architecture: Custom RDNA 2
- Memory interface: 16GB GDDR6 / 256-bit
- Memory bandwidth: 448GB/s
- Internal storage: Custom 825GB SSD
- IO throughput: 5.5GB/s (raw), typical 8-9GB/s (compressed)
- Expandable storage: NVMe SSD slot
- External storage: USB HDD support (PS4 games only)
- Optical drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray drive
Both are very capable machines and will probably come at around 500 USD. The manufacturing cost is definitely more than that and both companies will suffer initial losses but at the longer run profits will be made by the services that both the companies sell on their respective platforms.
As far as the we know there will be two versions of both consoles one with the optical drive and one being the digital edition. The digital one will be cheaper one.
A lot of cross gen games are being developed for both consoles so there won't be much of a graphical difference as of now but as soon as true next gen games will start coming we believe that will truly show the power of the consoles.
Honestly speaking the Playstation has better exclusive games than Xbox but the Xbox is more powerful than the PS. Games can be enjoyed on both consoles so the preference should be totally personal.
A more detailed comparison can only be made once they are launched so stay tuned for further updates.
What's your pick?
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