Microsoft Exec Believes Xbox Series X is the Better Console, Not Worried About Power - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 December 2020 / 12,177 Views
Microsoft’s Bill Stillwell, who used to work with Xbox and is now with Microsoft Cognition Team, in a recent podcast with Dealer said he believes Microsoft has the better console with the Xbox Series X when compared to Sony's PlayStation 5. He isn't worried about the power narrative.
"I think what you saw [with the PS5 reveal] was the unfortunate by-product of a GDC talk being turned into a marketing event," said Stillwell. "I loved Sony’s talk, I think they’ve got some cool tech. I personally think we have a better console, we’re not worried about the power narrative."
Microsoft and Sony last month revealed the specs for their next generation consoles, the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, respectively.
View the full spec breakdown comparing the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5:
"Both consoles will use an AMD Zen 2 CPU with eight cores," VGChartz wrote about the breakdown in the specs. "However, the Xbox Series X CPU has a peak frequency of up to 3.8GHz per core when SMT - hyper-threading - is disabled, while the PS5 has a peak frequency of up to 3.5GHz.
"Both consoles are using a custom AMD RDNA 2 GPU, however the Xbox Series X has a slightly more powerful GPU. Microsoft's console has a GPU with 12 teraflops of compute performance with 3328 shaders allocated to 52 compute units locked at 1.825GHz. The PS5 has a GPU with 10.28 teraflops of peak compute performance with 36 compute units at a peak of 2.23GHz."
"The Xbox Series X and PS5 both have 16GB of GDDR6 memory. However, the memory bandwidth does vary. The Xbox Series X has 10GB at 560GB/s and 6GB at 336GB/s, while the PS5 has all 16GB at 448GB/s.
"When it comes to storage the Xbox Series X includes a 1TB Custom NVMe SSD and the PS5 includes a custom 825GB SSD. The Xbox Series X has room for a 1TB expansion card and external storage support for a USB 3.2 HDD and the PS5 has an NVMe SSD Slot and support for a USB HDD. Both consoles include a 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive.
"Both consoles have support for hardware accelerated ray tracing. It is built into the shaders for both consoles."
View the Dealer podcast below:
The Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will launch in Holiday 2020.
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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What's the point of this? There is literally no way in hell he would say otherwise or he would lose his job.
"Not worried about power"
Interesting. Sony should be saying this line, not Microsoft.
Sony and Microsoft definitely are approaching the next generation differently. Seems like there are 50 articles posted a day about the Xbox Series X whereas Sony is randomly releasing a logo, an hour long talk on specs and a brief 2 picture/vague discussion on the new controller.
Yet, Sony still has much more buzz going for them.
Not clear where you're seeing the "much more buzz" for PS. That is about the opposite of what I've seen.
@VAMatt Might want to look closer. That logo and that controller pick both became the most liked instagram gaming pics in just a matter of hours. Every time Sony says something remotely PS5 related, the news blows up. XSX news just kind of comes and goes, only being remembered by the devoted Xbox fans. Once Sony reveals the consoles, some games, and really gets the hype ball rolling, XSX won’t have a prayer at garnering the attention of the majority.
I follow gaming news pretty closely, and I'm a PS fan. But, I just don't see anything like that. Pics on Instagram, while important, are just a tiny little piece of the puzzle. What I see is a near constant flow of info from MS (much of it insubstantial, but it still does the trick) that serves to keep XSX in the news. From PS, I've seen just an occasional burst of info. I will say that PS is doing a good bit more very recently. But, over the last several months, there's just no comparison. XB has gotten much more attention, because they've given the press a lot more to talk about.
They've probably given the press way too much information that there isn't anything to talk about anymore.
There are more Sony famboys and followers than Xbox.
Sony’s lack of information...while getting more views and tweets from their fans only tells me that their brand does the work for them. Resting on laurels is a nice crutch but I’m glad MS is far more transparent. It’s more fun.
"Both consoles have support for hardware accelerated ray tracing. It is built into the shaders for both consoles."
Citation needed.
It's a feature of current AMD GPUs, so see Wikipedia. Everything in the specs above corresponds to a current AMD SKU... Well, apart from the 56 CU RDNA2, you can only buy that core count in the older RDNA1 - but I'm sure it'll be out later this year..
At the end of the day, though, games will be more limited by development budgets than console specs. That problem is already visible in current gen...
It's going to come down to exclusive games.
Series X is clearly stronger but how bout the games eh?
Currently more next gen games announced compared to....Godfall. Yup Xbox so far leading in that front :)
They’ve shown XSX games.
Meanwhile Sony has shown zero PS5 games.
Wow, I hope you dont trip over all those hoops you’re jumping through to disqualify everything Microsoft has shown thus far. I had a good laugh at the Gears 5 not exclusive and looks better on PC part, what a mighty goal post shift that was 😆
And who is beating their chests? They asked about games. Microsoft has shown some. Whether they fit your criteria or not is irrelevant to me 🤡
The main difference there is one was a tech demo shown behind closed doors to investors that we never would have seen had someone not leaked it, and Microsoft has shown numerous titles coming to XSX publicly but I don’t have any problems with someone saying Sony has shown next gen gaming because of that demo, tbh I’d forgotten all about it.
CGI, you know both companies doing different strategies. Series X has Halo Infinite, Hellblade 2, Project Mara. Maybe Everwild. They also will happen to have scaled down Xbox One versions. PS5 has Godfall. I am not talking about Xbox One and PS4. But of course we all know this. Currently more Series X games announced over Godfall.
*i was referring to announcements. I never said anything about gameplay.
No what’s silly is people still asking that question “where the games”. It doesn’t matter that we’ve seen nothing. We at least know certain titles exist in a official capacity. PS5 has Godfall and that other game you mentioned. For the time being Xbox has 3 to PSs 2 announced titles. If people still think the y have 0 it’s a simple thing I notice and therefore remind them.
Only confirmed game for Xbox series x is crackdown 3 UHD remaster
Silly is relative. To some talking about video games online is silly. My original post is very simple. Someone asks where the games...I tell them Xbox’s current announced titles. Simple.
Hey may or may not be right, however in the end it does not matter as they will be close. They would need to be 50% better for people to consider switching consoles.
The main issue is this. Humans are creatures of habit. If the PS5 doesn't have major flaws or Sony doesn't stuff up the launch with something stupid, people who had a PS4 will just get a PS5.
It took Microsoft to screw up the launch of XBOX ONE for a fair few XBOX 360 users to shift to PS4.
So Bill works for the Microsoft cognition team , does that mean they sent a team into the palaces of Persona 5 to try and capture the phantom thieves for the Xbox and he got his cognition scrambled.
Better console .. i doubt it. Will come down to games and i doubt xbox will have a better lineup, going by the last few generations. Both consoles have their advantages that will counter the other. One has more compute units and shaders, the other has a higher gpu clock speed and better ssd. Both allow for ray tracing, vrs, mesh shading, but we don't know who has the better customisation engines. Even still, it doesn't really matter. Will come down to the Game engine, understanding of the console architecture, efficiency within the game engine in combination with the system, the designer of the game and his/her ambition of creating new exciting games, budget allocated, time frame constraint, the quality of the overall game team of artists, level designers and programmers etc..
Well who would think MS exec would say they have the better console.
Um, did anyone inform him of the bottlenecks?
It seems like other readers don’t like your confidence with sharing that opinion. shrugs
Just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. I know I am.
No he didn't test ps5. His statement is based on how XSX crackdown 3
Those specs correspond to a $750 Ryzen 9 CPU and a $450 Radeon RX5700. I think that's ok for a console...
Where did you get ryzen 9 cpu from? most likely ryzen 7 at best. I wish it had ryzen 9.
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