As soon as the next generation Xbox was unveiled the internet was flooded with Youtube videos and tech blogs comparing it with PlayStation 4. Some of them were obnoxiously stupid but there were a few well constructed comparisons. Though there’s slim pickings on the spec info we have for both the consoles, but here’s our take on the two consoles pitched against each other. Gaming consoles are updated at a crawling speed, it took Microsoft seven and a half years to come up with the new gen Xbox and technology has moved by leaps and bounds in that period. And in all probability both Sony and Microsoft are going to stick to this tradition but as we know the games are increasingly getting life like and it takes huge computing power to render the graphics and take the heavy load of the games so it’s very essential for both the consoles to be absolutely loaded with top notch hardware specs, and not just for now but for couples of years ahead in time.
As far as the looks are concerned, we’ll have wait for till June 10 for Sony to unveil the PS4 console, all we’ve seen is the controller, and as always the controller is pretty cool and ergonomically great. But Microsoft took the wraps off and I never thought I’ll say this but it’s a dud. It looks like a home theatre unit and completely fails to excite. What was Microsoft thinking? The chassis looks so out dated and boring that I might just stop playing games just by looking at it. I’m pretty sure PS4 will trounce Xbox One.
If what’s under the hood is all that matters then here’s the spec for spec comparison; both the consoles will run on very similar hardware but there are a few key differences. Xbox One and PS4 both will get an AMD Jaguar processor but PlayStation 4 features 1152 GPU cores as compared to 768 GPU cores of Xbox One, resulting to a superior 1.84 TFLOPS for PS4 as compared to Xbox’s peak shader throughput of 1.23 TFLOPS. Both host a system memory of 8GB, but PS4 uses a faster 5500MHz GDDR5 memory compared to the Xbox One’s 2133MHz DDR3 RAM and even the system memory bandwidth for PS4 is more than twice that of Xbox One (176 GB/s compared to 68.3 GB/s for Xbox). So as far as raw gaming power is concerned PS4 beats Xbox One hands down.
use the xbox’s development pics like the chipsets pic and the IC Board
So the final verdict: it’s pretty clear that both the companies have taken different routes, Sony is still sticking with the PlayStation as a proper gaming device where as Microsoft is trying for an all inclusive device loaded with home entertainment features. My question is, will I ever buy a car that features all the luxury a Rolls Royce offers but drives like a golf cart, it’ll be stupid. So stick to gaming because gamers made Xbox popular not anybody else. If and when Apple, Google and Amazon jumps into the TV and entertainment unit business as rumours suggest, it might just be TKO for Xbox. Despite me being a diehard Xbox fan for all these years it stings to say but PS4 seems to have won this round decisively. We’ll wait to see which one of these manages to steal the show by gathering longer queues outside the store, both of them should be launched by Thanksgiving or Christmas this year.