TFLOPS differences between Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 confirmed by Digital Foundry!

The team discussed a few specific details about the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, confirming them in the process. The GPU of the PS5 is codenamed Oberon, and the Xbox Series X’ is Arden, respectively. The former has 36 Navi compute units running at 2 GHz clock speed, which results in 9.2 TFLOPS computing performance for Sony’s GPU. (For some comparison: the PlayStation 4 Pro has 36 computing units at 911 MHz…) The CPU uses GDDR6 memory, with a bandwidth between 448 and 512 GB/s. The GPU will have three modes so Sony could do hardware-level emulation of the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 4 Pro. Meanwhile, the Xbox Series X doesn’t have such detailed information, but let’s take a look at them as well: Microsoft’s console’s GPU has 3584 shaders, which requires no less than 56 Navi compute units, which, according to Digital Foundry’s figures, results in 12 TFLOPS performance, and the Arden’s memory bandwidth would be 560 GB/s.

It looks like Sony is trying to balance performance with affordability, while Microsoft is going all-in on power above all. Thus, Digital Foundry believes the PlayStation 5 could cost 400 dollars, while the Xbox Series X would be around 500, or even more. (Since Microsoft goes for power, it could be even higher.)

So the two consoles (which are similar on several fronts: AMD Ryzen Zen 2 CPU, AMD Radeon Navi GPU, both customized; GDDR6 memory, SSD, the door of game streaming open via PlayStation Now and Project xCloud; backwards compatibility…) will have differences, which could define whether they will be successful at the start of the console generation or fall behind the competition.

Both the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X (or maybe the Xbox Series S, which we believe could be the name of the weaker model, codenamed Lockhart, with less memory and no Blu-ray drive…) will launch in the 2020 Holiday season.

Source: WCCFTech

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