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Comparing The Technical Specs Of PlayStation 5 And Xbox Series X

by Brian Shea on Mar 18, 2020 at 02:19 PM

During today's "Road to PS5" livestream, PlayStation's Mark Cerny delivered a talk getting into the details of the PlayStation 5's specs and architecture. Earlier this month, Xbox released the technical specs for the upcoming Series X.

Check out how the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X stand shoulder to shoulder based on what we know so far.

	PlayStation 5	Xbox Series X
CPU	8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz	8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.66 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU
GPU	10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHZ	12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz
GPU Architecture	Custom RDNA 2	Custom RDNA 2
Memory/Interface	16GB GDDR6/256-bit	16 GB GDDR6 w/ 320mb bus
Memory Bandwidth	448GB/s	10GB @ 560 GB/s, 6GB @ 336 GB/s
Internal Storage	Custom 825GB SSD	1 TB Custom NVME SSD
IO Throughput	5.5 GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed)	2.4 GB/s (Raw), 4.8 GB/s (Compressed, with custom hardware decompression block)
Expandable Storage	NVMe SSD Slot	1 TB Expansion Card (matches internal storage exactly)
External Storage	USB HDD Support	USB 3.2 External HDD Support
Optical Drive	4K UHD Blu-ray Drive	4K UHD Blu-ray Drive