Microsoft offers more Xbox One-to-PlayStation 4 hardware comparisons

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On paper, Sony's PlayStation 4 looks like it has more powerful hardware compared to Microsoft's Xbox One. The point has also been made that games developed for both next-generation game consoles will likely look the same in terms of graphics for at least the first few years of each console's lifespan.

This week, Microsoft Xbox marketing head Albert Penello, who has defended the Xbox One's hardware specs in the past, posted a message on the NeoGAF forums with what he claims are more even-handed comparisons between Microsoft's console and the PS4.

Penello said the idea that just because the PS4 has 18 control units to the Xbox One's 12 CUs, doesn't make the PS4 more powerful. He wrote, "Multi-core processors have inherent inefficiency with more CU's, so it's simply incorrect to say 50% more GPU." He also said that each of Microsoft's CUs runs six percent faster than the CUs in the PS4.

Additionally, Penello claims that the Xbox One, with its DDR3 memory, has more bandwidth than the PS4, which has GDDR5 memory. He wrote, "176gb/sec is peak on paper for GDDR5. Our peak on paper is 272gb/sec. (68gb/sec DDR3 + 204gb/sec on ESRAM). ESRAM can do read/write cycles simultaneously so I see this number mis-quoted."

The Xbox One also has 10 percent more CPU than the PS4, according to Penello, adding, "Not only a faster processor, but a better audio chip also offloading CPU cycles." Finally, he stated Microsoft has "3X the coherent bandwidth for GPGPU at 30gb/sec which significantly improves our ability for the CPU to efficiently read data generated by the GPU."

Penello did say that while he was not trying to disparage the PS4's hardware specs, he did feel that some people who have tried to compare the two systems were using inaccurate methods. He also said Microsoft's senior graphics and hardware engineers will offer even more information on the Xbox One's hardware features.

"They will be more credible then I am, and can talk in detail about some of the benchmarking we've done and how we balanced our system," Penello wrote.

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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-exec-offers-up-some-more-xbox-one-vs-ps4-hardware-comparisons

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AustraliansPosted:

Skeletons Either way i'm staying with my 360


I doubt much others will, so you're gonna be half as lonely as you were on the 360 before the Xbox One is released lol

AustraliansPosted:

Much more scientific, everyone has just been saying the basic features, but how it runs is what i like to here xD

CarloochPosted:

They aren't worried. Hardware specs aren't that big of a deal, both are updated to meet next gen needs. The xbox was more powerful than the PS2 and the PS2 out sold it. I think it will be fine.

BobMarIeyPosted:

I cannot wait for the xbox one. I have heard it is even more powerful IRL than it is on paper

KonviictedPosted:

Oh and yeah maybe the PS3 sales FINALLY surpassed the 360's, but it's pretty bad that they are less than 1,000,000 units sold apart and the 360 had the RROD.

KonviictedPosted:

I'm not going to talk about how much better one console is than the other because they will honestly probably be pretty close in graphics and processing power (unless the PS4 doesn't run off the cloud in ways the One does and can't compete with MS in that category), but all I'm saying is that I am almost positive the One will outsell the PS4 the entire time of both lifespans (unless of course something goes wrong with the Xbox One, which anything can happen with either console but I doubt anything will). Do you guys not see how much more people play Xbox than PS3 online at least? I have no idea about offline but I'm almost positive a lot more people play on XBL than PSN

KillzonedPosted:

Either way i'm staying with my 360

Dr-JPosted:

NV_Lobbys
monkey210
Dr-J
mxzd lets use our brains here. microsoft has some of the smartest programmers in the world, do you really think they would just let sony win the "console war" graphically that easy?


lol, this is right. MS knows what they are doing and do it for a reason. That's why they are worth over 230billion while sony is still at about 70billion


Its not the smartest programmers in the world they can't even ban hackers plus the smartest ones to this date are anon and the C.I.A. Learn to look up real facts


LOL.

Because Anonymous = The best hackers in the world. Did Sony ban Anonymous when they took down PSN? NO? So how about we stfu and stop being a fanboy?


Thank you NV, It also made me laugh that he said anon was one of the "smartest" yet he knows nothing about them. His first time was about PSN I bet lmao

DJMarkyMarkPosted:

-InsanelyAwesome- It is only Microsoft that is speaking about specs and defending their specs. That to me tells me Microsoft is worried. Now am not taking sides but the more Microsoft keep going on about specs etc the more likely it is to seem that they are worried.


Microsoft is the only one worried because most people are saying that the PS4 has better specs.

There's not much for Sony to defend or prove if everyone is saying that their specs are better.

SakiPosted:

monkey210
Dr-J
mxzd lets use our brains here. microsoft has some of the smartest programmers in the world, do you really think they would just let sony win the "console war" graphically that easy?


lol, this is right. MS knows what they are doing and do it for a reason. That's why they are worth over 230billion while sony is still at about 70billion


Its not the smartest programmers in the world they can't even ban hackers plus the smartest ones to this date are anon and the C.I.A. Learn to look up real facts


LOL.

Because Anonymous = The best hackers in the world. Did Sony ban Anonymous when they took down PSN? NO? So how about we stfu and stop being a fanboy?


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