Digital Foundry discusses PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X performance leaks – review

About six months ago, a rumor appeared with the characteristics of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and now an independent source Digital foundry confirmed credibility of the information.

However, of course, this still means little: capacities and components can still change, since neither Sonynor Microsoft did not start mass production of consoles – given their release in the fall, they are likely to go on the assembly line in early summer.

But let’s move on to the most interesting – the characteristics.

Playstation 5

  • AMD Zen 2 octa-core processor with 16 threads
  • custom AMD Radeon Navi graphics card with 36 processing units at a frequency of 2.0 GHz (approximately 9.2 teraflops)
  • GDDR6 RAM with a bandwidth of 448 GB / s (possibly 512 GB / s).

Xbox Series X

  • AMD Zen 2 octa-core processor with 16 threads
  • custom AMD Radeon Navi graphics card with 56 processing units at 1.7 GHz (approximately 12 teraflops)
  • RAM format GDDR6 with a bandwidth of 560 GB / s.
At the same time, the characteristics of a new generation budget Xbox without a drive have not yet hit the network. Formerly Jason Schreyer reportedthat Microsoft expects to make the Xbox Series X a console for 4K at 60 FPS, and the budget Lockhart for 1440p and 60 FPS.

In addition, according to the same Schreyer, the “bare power” of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is almost the same (which does not correspond to this leak), and the main differences will be in the software and other features of the systems.

We will soon find out how true the leak was. But recall that Sony shortly before the announcement of the PlayStation 4 doubled its RAM, thereby gaining a greater advantage over the Xbox One, which, although it had the same amount of RAM, but the bandwidth was much lower.