PS4 vs. Xbox One: Console Comparison

[jimmysmitty]

I don't get a few things here. The Second screen for example. The SmartGlass can be used with any existing device you have so say a Galaxy S4 or a iPhone yet its not better than having to shell out more money for a hand held console only feature?

Then the pricing. The XB1 is $100 more than the base PS4. But add in the PS4 camera, which is not even as robust as Kinect, and its only $41 dollars more and its still not as feature rich.

Then the RAM speeds. While its not a large size, the SRAM can hit 209GB/s and is probably going to be used in a lot of games as a cache since it will be much faster than most any RAM they throw on it.

Overall I think it depends not on the features stated here but how people currently used their consoles. If they use it for media and gaming, the XB1 is the obvious choice. If they want pure gaming then it could be either with the PS4 having a slight edge.

But with that edge comes more chances of failure as the larger GPU will create more heat when it starts being pushed by the games.

 

[Master0Fevil22]

This is just not true. The Xbox One has a faster CPU...period. It's clocked at 1.75Ghz vs the PS4's 1.6Ghz. On eight CPU cores...that makes a difference. It also has a dedicated audio processor and that further off-loads the CPU (they used two Xbox 360 cores of 6 available just to process audio last gen)

As far as the GPU goes, yes they're are more cores on the PS4, but they are slower per core.

SO, highly parallized task will run better on PS4

Single threaded GPU task will run faster on the Xbox One

It's like having two slower guys go the store to get groceries vs one faster guy. Yeah, the two guys will eventually bring back more food, but the faster guy will be back quicker.

Same goes for the Graphics RAM. GDDR5 has more bandwidth than DDR3 but it's also slower in terms of its latency. Aka..the Xbox One's DDR3 is better for "quick hits" to the memory. Things will feel snapier even tho it has lower main system bandwith. To further compensate for that and really deliver the best of both worlds, you have the ESRAM which has higher memory bandwidth than the PS4 has anywhere in the system; which you can use for a frame buffer, process post process effects on, whatever and you also have the Move Engines which let you shuffle data across the memory without using additional resources. It offloads the memory pipeline and GPU much in the same way the dedicated audio processor offloads the CPU.

Therefore, you have two different systems that each have their own strengths in their own areas. 3rd party devs will homogenize the games and 1st party devs will exploit all the unique characteristics of that each machine has to offer and they will both get GREAT LOOKING GAMES.

Check out even the launch games! Forza 5, Killzone and Ryse all look SICK. Things are gonna get good

 

[Master0Fevil22]

PS4 cannot play PS3 titles (they announced play via Gaki but that has not happened).

Xbox One cannot natively play Xbox 360 either, but....

Xbox One can play PS4 games, PS3 games, Xbox 360 games, Wii U games...stream TV, satelite, whatever u want (that uses HDMI) all through the consoles HDMI pass through; which is pretty boss.

The Controllers are both good. The PS4 definitely fixed the PS3's crappy triggers..(thank god) and their sticks are both good (tho better on the Xbone due to great sensitivity and textured grip). Dpad's gotta go to the PS4, and yeah it has a speaker in it and touch pad, but the Xbox One has impulse triggers which should pan out to be pretty useful in shooting games and a lot of other games where tactile feedback is needed or helps the player.

 

[Master0Fevil22]

FYI, BOTH CONSOLES CHARGE A SUBSCRIPTION FEE TO PLAY ONLINE GAMES

Xblive just has access to Microsoft's 300,000 plus Azure server farms where they say they've allocated an additional 3x the performance of each individual system in resouces for each Xbox One to use. PS4 is getting no such aid from Sony's infrastructure. Speaking of infrastructure...who do you think has a better network (switching, routing, firewalls, servers, storage, etc) MICROSOFT goofs...it's no contest.

They will have better online with clearer voice from Kinect vs PS Camera or from PS4's in game audio chat via any headset vs Xbox Ones bc Microsoft are using higher quality codecs, higher bit rate, higher sampling frequency, etc than sony on all fronts. AND they no what they're doing. They do networking and servers all day long. They're going to have greater bandwidth and lower latency online. Not to mention letting developers use dedicted servers, which sony cannot match.

Games like Titan Fall and Forza and future perpetual open world games will only be possible on Mircosofts infrastructure.