Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 CPU Comparison - Stable 60 FPS Finally Possible on Consoles

So we finally know most of the specs for both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 and have learned that both will be very capable systems. We are looking at CPUs in both system and what they should be capable of.

[Cupid_Viper_3]

Such an awesome time to be a gamer (even if the world is going through some tougher times at the moment). It seems that regardless of the choice you make this time around, you'll be set for some an awesome combo of amazing hardware combined with the all-important software support.

For those who want a bit more about the possible impact of the CPUs inside the next-gen consoles, NxGamer has an awesome video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[NeoGamer232]

Was there really that much capability difference between Sony and MS ever? There have been power differences, but by year 2-3 of the cycle the games have all tended to be pretty near the same in framerate and graphical capability.

[Jin_Sakai]

“”Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 CPU Comparison - Stable 60 FPS Finally Possible on Consoles“

Literally the most exciting feature about next gen consoles for me. Finally smooth and responsive gameplay across the board.

[NewMonday]

now if games have unstable farm-rate we will know it's totally the developers fault not the consoles. 60 fps should be a standard option at least.

the other good thing is that new TVs should support variable farm-rate so games can run unlocked.

[SyntheticForm]

Agreed, with emphasis on "at least."

There's no excuse for any game that wants to forego frame rate for graphics to not at least have the 60 fps with visual downgrade option.

[GTgamer]

Welllllllllllll that depends some devs will want to push graphics heavy so I do expect to see 30fps games but we shall see.

[Tech5]

i disagree actually. you will still have 30fps for some games. and even the series X too. until frame rate becomes a actual prerequisite. given this fact, developers will always have to make choices with fixed hardware.
gamers will have to inquire for 60fps in their games or inquire to support options.

[Starman69]

When a game is done right, (such as spiderman ps4 as a great example) then 30fps is fine! 👌 It really is 😁

[Jin_Sakai]

@Starman69

“When a game is done right, (such as spiderman ps4 as a great example) then 30fps is fine! 👌 It really is 😁“

It really isn’t. 30fps is 33.3ms while 60fps is 16ms.

A 60fps image is much smoother with less ghosting and the controller input is twice as responsive. A game running at 60fps is much better than 30fps regardless if it’s Spider-Man or not.

[Saijahn]

Exactly, 60fps should be the standard now.

[SLiSH83]

Give up @echo
This site is pro Sony
Any mention of Xbox/MS doing something is bad.....doesn’t matter what it is.
I’m holding out for a ps5 Pro myself
XSX is the one I’m getting first.

Or XSX at launch PS5 in August for my B day

[jznrpg]

@slish it’s pro Sony and pro Xbox at the same time . Because there is fans of both on here.

[jznrpg]

That plus load times being close to nothing . Obviously graphics will be great but the load times and FPS , AI/physics and such is what I was looking forward to.

[isarai]

I really REALLY want to see more destruction and physics next gen, gimme a BLACK 2 or Mercenaries 3 just to show it off

[jerethdagryphon]

Did you not play control that game has tons of physic destruction also really fun game

[Saijahn]

Yes, wreck any and everything. You speaking my language

[NeoGamer232]

I really miss Mercenaries a lot!

[porkChop]

I'd take a new Red Faction in the style of Guerilla. But ramp up the amount of destructible objects.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Stable 60fps has been possible since NES/Master System days. It depends on what type of game is being made and the graphics a developer is trying to push.

But it didn't stop me from playing Contra. It didn't stop me from playing Syphon Filter. Didn't stop me from playing Horizon Zero Dawn. 30fps will not stop me from playing any awesome future PS5 game if the developer decided on it. It's not that serious. We all know when a game's fps is unplayable. And 30fps IS playable.

"But but but..."

30fps is playable. 60fps and above is preferable like in a 2 player game. But if a single player game is good, I really don't care. I'm mostly playing single player anyway. I think it really only matters to people in competitive games. It only matters in VR to prevent nausea. I don't get nausea in a flat game at 30fps. If fps mattered that much, then give us all 120fps. But I'd bet there would be individuals complaining it wasn't as smooth as 240fps.

[Elda]

Agreed.

[FlavorLav01]

Some folks play single-player games on nightmare difficulty settings, if you’ve played either modern Doom game, Devil May Cry, God of War(performance mode), Dark Souls series, and many more - performance of 60fps or better is undeniably not only a visual delight for gamers but can be a life or death game changer in interactivity/responsiveness with the controlled character.. Makes some games feel completely different in a great way. Slower frames for films all the way, but my gaming habits desire more juicy frames with the incoming resolution bumps for all around better immersion

[ApocalypseShadow]

I understand what you're saying. And hit agree.

As I mentioned above that 60fps and above is preferable. But a good game is a good game. If someone shunned a game and won't play it because its 30fps, there's something wrong in my opinion.

I'm aware of chugging in games like when I used to play command and conquer/red alert with multiple A.I. And there would be so many units that it would chug. And I'd have to turn it off or reset. But there's no 30fps game I've played and said "nope." "I won't play it." Even if it's good.

That's ridiculous to me.

[blackblades]

Yeah 30fps is playable so use to it I have no problems with it at all. Best thing they can do is give us options like this gen and choose of how we want to play them.

[jerethdagryphon]

It's also worth remembering the human eye only needs 24 frames to see no choppiness.

[WGAF]

I dont think frame rate gonna help if gamers sucks at gaming lol.

[TheGamez100]

60fps is such a great feeling. Really needs to be the standard.

[Lennoxb63]

I'm tired of this conversation. They could give devs a quantum computer, they aren't going to prioritize 60 fps on console for anything other than fast/competitive games. You will still get 30 fps next gen, and the gen after that, because devs put that bandwidth into graphics. And yes graphics sell games since most gamers don't even know what a frame rate is.

[Melankolis]

Yes. I leave the judgement on the devs whether to use 30fps/60fps.

[blackblades]

Like I said before, options to choose between 30fps and 60fps would be great like how it is now. Also depends on the game, like nioh I'll play it at 60fps, xcom it wouldnt matter.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

And it took this long LMAO

[Steppenwolfmother]

It really didn’t. It all comes down to the developers choices.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

A lot of games could have achieved 60fps@1080p this gen but optimizations seems to go out the window for more and more devs.

[Steppenwolfmother]

Or devs have other priorities. Some games are fine at 30fps. I think most games could have been 60fps this gen if they didn’t want to push the graphics as much

[VerminSC]

Somehow I feel like they’ll be moronic and prioritize resolution over FPS again. I’m hoping not.

[Lennoxb63]

From a business sense it’s not moronic. Graphics sell games not frames. Most gamers don’t even know what a frame rate is. You will never get a generation on consoles where we get 60 fps across the board so stop waiting on it.

[ocelot07]

If that's the case then how did Xbox not outsell PlayStation for the last 3 years considering the X is the most powerful and had the slightly better graphics on most 3rd party games? Gamers do care about fps. They would gladly take 60 over 30 every time. But they don't have the choice because devs rather push out better graphics rather than fps.

[Lennoxb63]

@Ocelot07

I said graphics sell games not consoles. Keep up. No one said anything about Xbox outselling PS. But if casual gamers don't see a jump in graphical fidelity they are more reluctant to buy. Casual gamers have not idea what a frame rate is. I don't know how told you different. Cause most of them aren't tech savvy at all.

[Ashunderfire86]

"The only scenario where a game would be locked to 30 FPS next-gen is when a developer chooses to do so as they may want to push their game for incredible visuals and high resolution at the same time." -From the Article

Developers don't need to run games at 30FPS anymore with all that power they have for next generation. Both PS5 and XSX have more than enough space and power to make every game run 4K/60FPS. 60FPS should be the new 30FPS. The worst-case scenario should be the sacrifice in resolution making it checkboard rendering to 1800p upscale to 4K. According to many developers,the next generation should be the most balance consoles ever.

[Segata]

I remember games being 60FPS in the 5th and 6th gens. Optimization works wonders. Nintendo often has their games at 60. A lot of devs just favor resolutions and visuals over frame rate.

[Lennoxb63]

There wasn’t nearly as many things running in the 5th and 6th gen, so of course 60 fps was a lot easier.

[GameStallion]

This is the main thing I wanted in next gen!

[silenthillstrangler]

We've already had stable 60 fps games.

[FanboysKiller]

Xsx psu rated as 350w ,that's humongous !

[MrSec84]

The PS3's power supply unit was 380 watts, but that's still tiny compared to PC PSUs.
350 watts isn't humongous.

[FanboysKiller]

For a console , don't be silly.

[FanboysKiller]

Og Ps3 design was overkill, you can't find one that works at the moment, they're all been ylod.

[MrSec84]

My launch PS3 that I bought the day after release still works and I've used it a lot since 2007.
I made a comparison that was fair and fits perfectly fine.

Relative to what you can put in a Mini ITX case, you could put a 500 watt PSU easily in a case the size of Series X.

[FanboyPolice]

I was okay with 30fps until i got my gaming PC. I ended up re buying all my PS4 games on PC. I just couldn’t past even slow paced games like AC Origins.

That said, I noticed that if i play only PS4 for a while (i started Spiderman, uncharted and god of war) i stop noticing after a while.

I remember once i finished those games and went back to PC, i played a bit of spider man and couldn’t understand how i finish the game at that frame rate.

I guess you can get used to it if you don’t play on PC. But that’s my experience. I did enjoy those three games and can’t remember complaining about frame rates while immersed.

[Donnie81]

Why not 120 fps

[Mithan]

"finally capable"?

You don't understand technology do you? 60FPS has been stable and possible on any console in the last 20 years, if the graphics didn't push it too much.

Change your context so you don't look like a fool.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Advertising Boost clocks just seem wrong.

[RazzerRedux]

lol...."seem wrong"? So you don't really know if it is wrong or not? Yeah....I'd say that is about right.

Tell me this. With a PC GPU, what clock is used to determine its teraflops measurement? Yep....the boost clock. Does that "seem wrong" to you?

"So will PS5 be boosted on CPU and GPU at all times ?"

Nope. Only when it needs to be. Will XSX be delivering full voltage to its GPU at all times? Nope. Only when it needs to.

[MrSec84]

Whether PS5 maintains full clocks on both the CPU and GPU is going to depend on the demand of code.

Cerny gave an example of code which doesn't get used in gaming that often, which would affect the overall hit on the CPU, but if it's not going up to the ceiling of the CPU then you still have a tonne more performance compared to this gen and the GPU could be maxed out if required in that instance, but both parts could be running at max clocks to make sure the set of tasks is processed as fast as possible.

It's not difficult to see a number of situations allowing the CPU end GPU running at full speed at once.
Whether clocks drop will depend on how much of each Processing Unit is filled up and that is largely going to depend on how efficiently code is written.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

So will PS5 be boosted on CPU and GPU at all times ?

[MrSec84]

A better question is:
Will all workloads require full clock speeds at all times?

It's not a simple matter of all workloads filling up the Cores and you get to the ceiling of what every CU or CPU component has available, because games are such a dynamic thing and you may not need to max out all sections of each part of the SoC.

PS5 could be running the CPU and GPU at full speed, but only certain parts of each will be hit by workloads.

[Father__Merrin]

next gen will easily be 4k 60 fps - mabey some on here will stop moaning that 30 fps hurts thier eyes lmao

[frostypants]

It was already possible. Look at Wipeout HD on the PS3. It's ALWAYS BEEN a matter of a developer balancing FPS against other visual factors. We've simply gotten to where compromises in the latter can be made without it being as noticeable in order to achieve 60fps.

Fact: Literally every game this gen could have been 60fps, if the devs would have cut back on the resolution/textures/effects. But then, you know...the stupid screenshot wars. So they don't.

[spirited]

Why not give us both options 30/60fps.Every one is a winner.Devs now cant hide behind weak cpu excuse.If they dont do it ,it means either they r lazy or they dont care.

[waverider]

There no spin here. Huge jump from last gen. Huge for both. Give a rest.

[SLiSH83]

I’ll take 1440p with 120+FPS

[Artemidorus]

All that great power on the Xbox for nothing because it has no games.

[Fishy Fingers]

It's got 95% of the games the PS has. But I presume you only play the 5%.

[Artemidorus]

That 5% being some of the best Playstation or PC have to offer.

[3-4-5]

Cerny literally said: 3.5 is the set clock speed as it always runs at peak, so they know it can thermally handle it........If it needs to it will adjust DOWNWARDS.

Most games on PS5 will be clocked between 3.1-3.5..................NEVER MORE.

** Why never more? It thermally can't handle it......they left it at a level where they know it can thermally handle the speed, to avoid overheating..........but this does gimp the cpu a bit.

[Blu3_Berry]

This is my main hope for next-gen, 60 fps across all games at 1080p. Though I guess at the end of the day it's up to the devs if they want to do it. I hope this means we will see more games at 60 fps compared to this current gen because we rarely saw 60 fps.

[DonDon3000]

I'm enjoying 144hz on my pc. Just saying. Still, I'll get ps5 for the exclusives.

[uth11]

But my console's 60fps is better than your console's 60fps!

[Games1st]

It will be a lot easier, still I can see most AAA going 4k-8k 30fps. I hope there is a performance option for 60fps.