Developer Claims PS5 SSD to Help Exclusives, Multiplatform Games to Use Xbox Series X as Baseline - News

That stands to reason. 1st and 2nd party exclusives for both Series X and PS5 will each take advantage of their unique strenths, for Series X that is a more powerful GPU and faster CPU, for PS5 that will be a significantly faster SSD. Meanwhille 3rd parties usually develop for the baseline, so they will tend to see small load time benefits only from PS5's SSD, and only small resolution and/or framerate improvements on Series X from it's beefier GPU and faster CPU.

I don't get the impression that the actual real world speeds are that different, when all things considered (seek times, compression, etc.). The Series X decompresses faster. And how does the Velocity Architecture compare to similar techniques on PS?

I think saying that "the streaming time will be a lot lower" on PS is at least an overstatement, if it's true to any degree.

The PS5 & XSX are so extremely close in terms of overall performance. The Series X has a slightly more powerful GPU (more RDNA 2 compute units) the PS5 GPU is clocked faster (with less RDNA 2 compute units). The Xbox SSD has velocity architecture with extreme fast read/write compression/decompression times.
the Xbox Series X’s SSD delivers 2400 MB/s of bandwidth. This is a tremendous amount relative to the hard disks found in other eighth gen consoles and on par fast, high-end NVMe solutions in the PC space.

However, in order to make the Velocity Architecture viable—to ensure that data transfer takes place within a budget of a few milliseconds—Microsoft took this a step further by adding in a hardware compression/decompression block. The hardware compression system is specifically tailored to address GPU texture data using the BCPack system. On-the-fly compression and decompression means that the Xbox Series X’s storage has an effective throughput of around 5.7 GB/s.

The PS5 has done exactly the same thing, only faster. The PlayStation 5 has an incredibly fast SSD. Raw throughput is approximately 5.5 GB/S, which is equivalent to the Xbox Series X’s effective throughput with hardware compression factored in. Including hardware compression, the PlayStation 5’s SSD offers a remarkable 9 GB/s of I/O throughput. To put this in perspective, this is nearly as fast as single channel DDR3 system RAM. The PlayStation 5’s SSD solution is nearly as fast as RAM. Looking at what Sony and Mark Cerny have said so far, Sony’s SSD appears to offer developers similar advantages to the Xbox Series X’s velocity architecture: minimal load times and the ability to use efficiently stream data off the SSD.

There’s been a lot of speculation about how this could impact game performance on the PlayStation 5, about whether a much faster SSD could offset CPU and GPU constraints. The answer right now is that’s it’s not clear, but that a faster SSD is unlikely to have significant implications when it comes to conventional rendering workloads.

Traditional GPU rendering workloads, including processing shader effects, geometry, and post-processing are not I/O bound. These operations would run at the same speed whether a game runs off an HDD or a super-fast SSD. However, there might be scenarios, such as LOD swapping where faster storage could result in meaningful better image quality.

What all this means is we've got two incredibly powerful consoles that have done very well this far. We're in the third year & as time goes on I truly believe we will see some incredible games coming from these consoles. We've just begun to scratch the surface. The past three years have been marred by cross gen games BUT when we start to see games & their engines solely optimized for current gen consoles, we will see remarkable titles the likes of which we can't even imagine right now. Happy gaming ✌️

Oh not this crap again

All this talk now simple because ps versions are almost every time better , now we see constantly these damage control , just stop , ita not even a big diffence.