So the big reveal last night of PS4 happened. While over all I was underwhelmed and the presentation as a whole was bad, we did receive some official specs of the PS4. Surely enough, they were mostly on par with the leaks we've seen previously.
Also if we go by leaks, the NextBox would also have:
- 32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s)
- from the GPU’s perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec
So over all, the PS4 looks to be more capable and with the new DDR5 of memory, would have more bandwidth and perhaps a better GPU. However, someone points out that the ESRAM being parallel to GPU, this could provide a bump for the NextBox to be nearly as capable as the PS4.
So at this point, I hope the leaked specs of the nextbox are legit or wrong in the sense that the real specs give it a slight edge.
Source: http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-xbox-720-vnext-vs-sony-playstation-4-spec-comparison/
Xbox 720/vNext | Playstation 4 | |
CPU Architecture | x64 | x86 |
CPU | 8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz) | AMD “Jaguar”, 8 cores |
GPU | 1.2 TFLOPS, Custom D3D11.1 class 800-MHz graphics processor | 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon based graphics engine |
Memory | 8 gigabyte (GB) of RAM DDR3 (68 GB/s) | GDDR5 8GB |
Hard Disk Drive | Built-in | Built-in |
Optical Drive | 50 GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive | Blu-ray Disc drive 6xCAV |
Network | Gigabit Ethernet Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct | Communication Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth? 2.1 (EDR) |
Also if we go by leaks, the NextBox would also have:
- 32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s)
- from the GPU’s perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec
So over all, the PS4 looks to be more capable and with the new DDR5 of memory, would have more bandwidth and perhaps a better GPU. However, someone points out that the ESRAM being parallel to GPU, this could provide a bump for the NextBox to be nearly as capable as the PS4.
So at this point, I hope the leaked specs of the nextbox are legit or wrong in the sense that the real specs give it a slight edge.
Source: http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-xbox-720-vnext-vs-sony-playstation-4-spec-comparison/