Developer: More Powerful Xbox Series X GPU Will Mostly Matter to Xbox Exclusives - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2020 / 3,150 Views
In March Microsoft and Sony revealed the specs for their next generation consoles, the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. One place the Xbox Series X edges out the PS5 is the GPU. The Xbox Series X GPU has a clock speed of 12 teraflops, which compares to the PS5's variable clock rate of 10.28 teraflops.
Nimble Giant Entertainment's Balthazar Auger, who is the lead game designer on Quantum League, spoke with GamingBolt in an interview and said it would mainly be Xbox exclusives that would take full advantage of the GPU power in the Xbox Series X.
"I think it will mostly matter to Xbox-exclusive titles, which will be able to be programmed to get every drop of extra juice from the machine," said Auger.
"It may also buy the new console a longer generation cycle. However, all developers building multi-platform titles are bound by the lowest-spec target hardware, so the only advantage I can imagine there would be stabler framerates on higher-end resolutions for the Xbox Series X."
Former Sony game designer Chris Grannell recently said the "power difference is quite staggering" between the two consoles, however, that power isn't everything when it comes to the consoles.
"I’ve chatted to a few devs and they have confirmed the power difference is quite staggering," said Grannell at the time. "However they have said it doesn’t mean you can’t make good games on the PS5. These fanboys clearly don’t care about that and are massively rattled."
Microsoft plans to launch the Xbox Series X in Holiday 2020, alongside Halo: Infinite.
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I don't doubt Microsoft will do a better job of utilizing their own hardware, but if the purported Series S will play all of the same games, then that's what they will need to be designed around; not the X.
@Marth For the most part, you’re not wrong, but there’s a particular group of consoles warriors that have become very obsessed with TFLOP counts as of late, and use it as a reason to put down the competition. It’s a bit hypocritical to say the TFLOP count doesn’t matter in this particular case.
@DialgaMarine - Your response to Marth was irrelevant to what he said.
Anyhow, Gears 5 was built with X1 in mind but also greatly utilizes superior GPU, CPU, and RAM of other platforms. The X1X version has the same visual settings but greatly increases the resolution and pushes for 60 fps. While the PC version is well beyond the console versions in visual quality settings.
The same goes for Forza Horizon 4. PCs can have better specs and they still create games that look impressive on high end PCs.
Hence, adjusting graphics settings makes a world of difference in spec demands. Whether it be for 1.2TF or 12TF. Forza Horizon 4 is fine on X1's 1.2TF, but you need more like 12TF for the 4K/60 fps Ultra graphics options.
Team Xbox talking big about the only edge they seem to have over the competition, and even that is questionable because nobody really knows what either machine can do in capable hands. They have different solutions to the same problems. But I have to say that Sony's silence in the marketing department is quite deafening right now, and Xbox is happy to fill that void.
A more powerful GPU will deliever better performance than a less powerful GPU.. go figure.
Yupp... I always thaught that it's a weight difference, but this guy finally came and told us that there is a power difference as well. Damn he is a smart one :))))
Seems like that would be the deal for either console: exclusive devs will play to their strengths, while third parties find a middle ground. Seems like both are extremely powerful and fairly comparable, so not much issue.
Thanks for stating the obvious.
Seems like that would be the deal for either console: exclusive devs will play to their strengths, while third parties find a middle ground. Seems like both are extremely powerful and fairly comparable, so not much issue.
