The upcoming Xbox Series X is better than the PlayStation 5 on paper, but will that make it the better console in the next-gen console war?

Now that the two next-gen consoles have dropped their specs for all to see, it’s time to start comparing numbers. Surprisingly, Microsoft seems to have pulled ahead of Sony after years of Sony being top dop over the last two generations of consoles, but will that make Microsoft the new leader in home entertainment?

Let’s take a look at the two consoles’ GPUs, typically the most important component in determining game graphical quality. On the PlayStation 5, we get a Radeon Navi GPU with 36 computational units producing a total of 10.28 Teraflops (or TFLOPs, as they're commonly referred to). On the Xbox Series X, a similar Radeon GPU has 52 computational units for a total of 12 TFLOPs, almost 15% more than the PlayStation.

As we already know, TFLOPs are the industry standard in terms of computational performance. Having more TFLOPs means your graphical processor can work harder and thus produce better graphics.

So the Xbox is ahead in graphical power, but what about the other stuff? Well, the Xbox is also ahead on internal storage with 1 TB of internal space compared to the PS5's 825 GB SSD. It should be noted that it's possible that the Xbox's internal drive is actually closer to 825 GB as drive manufacturers typically round up when describing their drive's capacities, but we'll stick with what we have on paper for now.

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The Xbox Series X also wins when it comes to core processing power. Both consoles have a CPU with 8x Zen 2 Cores, but the Xbox's clock speed is 3.8 GHz compared to the PS5's 3.5 GHz.

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With the Xbox Series X the clear winner, will this make the Xbox the console to buy this holiday season? Maybe, but then again, the best device on paper isn’t always the best one in the real-world. The original Xbox was vastly more powerful than the PlayStation 2, but the console itself was a buggy mess that crashed and overheated all the time. The PS2, on the other hand, was a pristine console with thousands of games all playing to the highest quality.

We’ll have to wait to see these two consoles in action before we can declare a winner, but we can definitely say that the Xbox Series X has the early lead in this console race.

Source: Eurogamer, Twitter

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