He really takes the time to explain everything in exhaustive detail, yet people still trash him relentlessly. lol

His patience is almost zen like.

Only because it is :p that's not always a good thing though as you do tend to get( notice)more shimmer. Beyond that, that is a slice of a larger image, and they look muuuch better in motion.

I dont really care though, It all looks gorgeous in the vids. Nit pickers can eat rocks as far as I'm concerned. ..

Funny, the x1 is sharper looking, but has more aliasing. Of course, the both have shimmer so blah. I think it looks awesome :)

Finally the world will wake up ... let's go look for that 50 % more power

Finally the world will wake up ... let's go look for that 50 % more power

To try to stay on the actual topic. From what's been confirmed (or atleast suggested):

GPU: Both have very similar GPU designs. The PS4 GPU has more cores, but at a slightly lower frequency than on the Xbox One (?). They both have confirmed to have individual custom features added on top of the original AMD design.

Memory: Both systems has 8GB system mem. Memory available to games is not finalized (?). Looking at current gen, the memory footprint used by the OS will likely be reduced over the lifespan. PS4 has higher memory bandwidth to this memory (GDDR5), but latency is higher than on the Xbox One (DDR3) memory (not comfirmed, but seems logical from what i know about memory) . The Xbox One has 32MB embedded ESRAM for framebuffer, tiled resources etc.

CPU: Both systems have the same CPU design, same amount of cores, but the Xbox One runs them at a higher frequency.

Audio: PS4 uses CPU for audio processing (?) Xbox One has dedicated audio hardware.


Now, some of this is confirmed, some is not, and then there's probably other things i've forgot, or don't have knowledge about, like the so called data-move engines and such. What all this will mean for games is hard to tell. The PS4 having more shader-cores does sound logical that it will give the machine an edge in multiplatform games where same techniques are used on both platforms. The Xbox One could have a different sweetspot for resolution, depending on how the ESRAM is used. Different rendering and effect techniques will most likely have an advantage on either platform. What are the console specific extensions they put in each of the GPU's and what effect will they have on (primarily exclusive) titles.

The Xbox One could have a noticable CPU advantage due to higher clocked cores, lower memory latency and PS4 having to do audio processing on the CPU (?). This would mean more resources for doing advanced AI, physics (which the PS4 could poll from it's extra GPU cores to compensate for.) etc. But for multiplatform games, which are much more critical to have identical simulations, AI and all, this would probably not give the Xbox One an advantage in those areas similar to the one PS4 seems to have in bruteforce GPU for graphics. For exclusive titles it's of course much more exciting to see what they can do.

Lastly, there's all the other things. The quality of the dev-tools. How optimized analyzing tools and compilers are. How good they are at reaching out to developers with technical help and knowledge. These are the variables that aren't necessarily shipped in the box, and could/will change over time.

And for people using this thread (and other blogs and articles) to decide which console they are going to buy (if they aren't buying both that is). Think about what makes YOUR gaming experience. Where does your friends play. Which ecosystem and dashboard do you feel at home at. Which features and services do you like. Which controller do you like the most (try them out both if possible, and check out the new features, like touchpad on the PS4 contorller, and feedback in the triggers on the Xbox One controller), and last but not least, which console has the games you want to play. Do like Killzone, or do you prefer Halo. Gran Turismo or Forza. Exclusives aren't many as they were 7-8 years ago, but it's still something to think about.