Check below what are the aspects of the technical sheet that should make the Xbox the most powerful between the two. It is worth remembering that the price and the launch date in Brazil of both remain a mystery.
- Video card The Xbox Series X graphics processor consists of 52 computational processing units. With that, the chip used by Microsoft promises to be much more powerful than the unit that equips the PlayStation 5, formed by 36 of these units. Computational units are like processing cores that aggregate a series of components and structures of the graphics card. In general, the greater the number of these elements, the greater the graphics processing capacity of the console. It is possible that the new Xbox has a greater ability to achieve higher resolutions without the need for image reconstruction techniques and better use of ray tracing effects.
- Processor Both consoles use a processor derived from AMD’s Zen 2 architecture, but the version packaged on the Xbox promises to be faster. According to Microsoft, the Xbox processor can work in two modes. When using only eight cores, the chip allows speeds of up to 3.8 GHz. On the other hand, when using the eight cores and eight more threads, the processor works at 3.6 GHz. The numbers mean that the Xbox processor tends to be faster than the PS5 in both modes of operation. That’s because the Sony console has a maximum advertised speed of 3.5 GHz, using the eight cores and eight threads at the same time. Processors are essential in games for processing technologies, such as enemy artificial intelligence, physics and other elements of simulation of increasingly complex worlds. Another effect of the processor is on the console’s ability to operate at higher speeds. The Xbox’s fastest CPU can help the console reach 60 FPS, or even more, more often than Sony’s rival.
- RAM memory In terms of memory, it is possible to say that the Xbox is, at the same time, faster and slower than the PS5. This is because the Microsoft console has 16 GB of GDDR6 RAM divided into two fractions: one, 10 GB, has a speed of 560 GB / s, while the other 6 GB reaches 336 GB / s. On the Sony console, there are also 16 GB of GDDR6 RAM, but the speed is the same for each of these gigabytes: 448 GB / s. It is too early to say which approach might work best – it will all depend on how developers exploit the two systems. However, at first, the Xbox high-speed memory fraction can have a noticeable impact on more ambitious games during the console’s lifecycle.
- SSD Microsoft’s SSD has an advantage over the unit created by Sony: capacity. The solid disk used in the Xbox Series X offers 1 TB of capacity – greater than the 825 GB available in the Sony confirmed SSD for the new PlayStation 5.
