Dev: PS5 SSD Has a Distinct Advantage Over Xbox Series X|S SSD - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 September 2021 / 11,209 Views
The co-founder of Invader Studios Michele Giannone speaking with GamingBolt in an interview discussed the solid state drives (SSD) that are included in the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles.
Giannone believes the SSD in the PS5 is better than the one in the Xbox Series X|S. The PS5 SSD has a Read Bandwidth of 5.5 GB/s (Raw) and 8-9 GB/s (Compressed), while the SSD in the Xbox Series X|S has a Read Bandwidth of 2.4 GB/s (Raw) and 4.8 GB/s (Compressed).
"We believe that Sony has a distinct advantage from this point of view," said Giannone.
Giannone also compared the differences between the latest consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with the last-generation consoles, the PS4 and Xbox One.
"The first and most logical of the answers is obviously linked to the speed of the uploads," said Giannone. "Having the ability to access data so quickly allows us to have almost instant uploads, so as to avoid long waits between one map and another.
"If we analyze everything more deeply, however, we can understand how much this speed of access to gigs of files can also have an impact at the level of game design or go to redefine some pipelines now consolidated in the gaming industry. Just think of what Insomniac Games’ Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart did.
"The current bottleneck, however, appears to be the almost always cross-gen nature of the products in the pipeline and the concept of multi-platform itself. So we will see only the exclusive titles for a single platform fully enjoy these new technologies, while for all others will have to ‘be content’ with being able to pass from the start menu to the actual game in a matter of seconds."
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle from Invader Studios is in development for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It will launch in 2022.
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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Okay? I think we know at this point that power doesn't sell consoles, games and features do. If power sold consoles, Xbox woulda beat PS2, PS3 woulda beat Wii, PSP woulda beat DS, Vita would ahve beat 3DS, Game Gear woulda beat Game Boy, Dreamcast woulda beat PS1/N64, Xbox Series X woulda beat PS4 PRo, etc. And PC would always be the best selling console ever.
Oh, and Switch would be failing.
Why does this matter to anyone anymore? I just don't see why this continues being a point of contention. The only times the most powerful consoles won their respective battles were like, when the original PS4 beat the original Xbox One and I think SNES beat Genesis? I genuinely don't know. It always boils down to the games and the console features.
Man this brings me back to mid 2020 when the PS5 SSD was supposed to revolutionize gaming.
This is news 9 months after the launch of the consoles? I thought this was actually going to be new info lol. It mainly seems like PS5 exclusives would be able to take the most advantage of that insane ssd speed.
Ratchet and Clank and Kraken show that there are advantages. But you will only see them in PS5 console exclusives. Not that that's necessarily bad, but it's a bit odd that a non Sony dev points this out. The whole point of the PS5 was making it as bottleneckless as possible, whilst Xbox wanted to have the most power. Both succeeded in what they wanted.
It was evident how much of an advantage the PS5 SSD had over the Xbox Series X when specifications got revealed.
However... A console isn't just the SSD, it's not the sum of all of it's parts, the Series X has tangible hardware advantages that this developer conveniently ignored.
But in the end, it also doesn't matter. The PS5 and Series X are so close together, any specification differences are irrelevant right now.
Just like last generation when the power and capability gap between the PS4 and XBO were so tiny I don't think anyone noticed. I think PS5 had slightly better RAM and marginally better processing power, whereas this generation Xbox has higher raw computational power but PS5 has a better SSD. In the end, there's literally less than a second difference in loading time, while the FPS and resolution are so high now that the slight changes between the two are honestly inconsequential.
I don't notice a difference in performance on any two consoles from the same generation. Ever. If I didn't do the research into the difference between PS2, Gamecube and Xbox, I wouldn't be able to tell you which was which. Same with Xbox 360 and PS3. Same with PS4 and XBO. Same with XSX and PS5. they're close enough that the average player won't and can't tell the difference regardless of the miniscule difference in performance on either side.
You couldnt tell the difference between the PS2, GC and Xbox? I can understand the GC vs Xbox but the PS2 was marginally weaker than both.
I didn't have an Xbox at the same time as a PS2, but looking at screenshots and video definitely showed the difference between the two. The problem (if you can call it that) is both companies largely use off the shelf parts. The days of custom chips and proprietary parts are mostly over.
And just like that, we're back to 2020..
This debate was over and done with can we move on now? Hahaha
But we haven't since 2 times the advantage with games so far
If you look at some of Digital Foundry's analysis videos, there are actually quite a few games that show PS5 having a 2x advantage in loading. But at some point, you have to stop looking at the percentages and instead look at it in practical terms. If a game loads in 7 seconds on Xbox Series, and in 3-4 seconds on PS5 - yes, that means the PS5 is twice as fast, but we are also talking about a difference of a few seconds lol. Does it really matter? No lol
If u put it that way then yes. But that's not a big difference and few and far between. There's bene more where its 1 seconds or 2 or the same loading times. It's neglible and u won't feel it
I believe looking at loading times is not correct and instead looking how fast assets can be loaded into memory from the SSD. The advantage of 2X speed is felt way more in this respect than loading times. as far as a developer is concerned how they make their games.
I am sure in future we may see that but currently we haven't seen it yet
We probably only will see with real exclusives designed for around the speed of the SSD. I believe Ratchet and Clank would be the first example, I have not seen anything else so far.
Having no loading screens has been done before. Just not as quick due faster ssd. I think how quickly loading screens occur in ratchet will be seen in games more due to all consoles having ssd. I still think there won't be a significant advantage
. But who knows. Time will tell. How they did it in ratchet is pretty cool
"Just think of what Insomniac Games’ Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart did."
Funny because you can put a external HDD in your Ps5 and it has to run with a HDD also.........
You can't run PS5 games from external storage; you can only store them there.
