We compare the data that Sony has shown us in the presentation of PS5 with what we already knew from the Microsoft console.
Mark Cerny has presented in society the technical specifications of PS5, the new Sony console for this Christmas. The architect of the company, the eminence in charge of designing the Playstation hardware, has been describing the final technical characteristics of the platform. A hardware that wants to compete from you to you with Xbox Series X, of which we have many more details thanks to the official information of the last weeks. Which is more powerful?
The fight for power: new generation
If we start with the CPU, we see that the Xbox Series X has 8 3.8 GHz nuclei for the eight 3.5 GHz variable PS5. At GPU, we were amazed at the 12 power teraflops announced for the Microsoft console in a custom RDNA 2 architecture; PS5 confirms the same type of architecture – it had been speculated that perhaps it would be RDNA 1- but in teraflops it stays at 10.28. It will be missing to see its performance, since Cerny has insisted that his idea is to offer a smaller and more agile GPU to offer a performance above what is expected from his TFLOPs figure, which according to him, does not respond to all the possibilities offered by the GPU component.
In bandwidth, the Microsoft console also leads the way: 10 GB @ 560 GB / s for the 448 GB / s of PS5. At the internal storage level, both consoles have an SSD hard drive, in Xbox Series X of 1 TB and in PS5 of 825 gigabytes. The speed of the SSD is at 2.4 GB / s on the Microsoft console and 5.5 GB / s on the Sony console. Note that the Xbox Series X specified that an additional 1TB could be expanded. Both have 16 GB GDDR6 of RAM.
Comparison Xbox Series X vs PS5
| PS5 | Xbox Series X | |
| CPU | 8 Zen 2 cores at 3.5GHz | 8 Zen core 2 custom CPU |
| GPU | 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz | 12 TFLOPs, 52 CUs at 1,825 GHz |
| GPU architecture | RDNA 2 | RDNA 2 |
| Memory / Interface | 16GB GDDR6 / 256-bit | 16GB GDDR6 w / 320mb bus |
| Memory bandwidth | 448GB / s | 560GB / s |
| Storage | 825GB SSD | 1TB SSD |
| I / O | 5.5GB / s, 8-9GB / s on average | 2.4 GB / s (raw), 4.8 GB / s (compressed with custom hardware |
| Storage expansion | NVMe SSD slot | 1TB expansion card |
| External storage | USB HDD compatibility | USB HDD |
| Reader | 4K UHD Blu-ray | 4K UHD Blu Ray |
You can see in this article everything related to the specifications of PS5, as well as its comparison with PS4. Also, here are all the technical details that were offered from Xbox Series X a few days ago.
