All You Need To Know: Playstation 5 And Xbox Series X

After months of rumours, teasers, and leaks, the next generation gaming consoles have been unveiled. Official pricing, games, and specifications have been announced for both. Microsoft unveiled official information on the Xbox Series X on 9th September 2020 and Sony followed suit with an unveiling on 16th September. Here is the comparison of both Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X.

Hardware Comparison

Playstation 5

CPU: 8 Cores at 3.5GHz

GPU: Custom RDNA 2, 10.28TFLOPs, 36 Compute Units at 2.23GHZ

Memory: 16GB GDDR6

Storage: 825GB SSD

Optical Drive: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Xbox Series X

CPU: 8 Cores at 3.8GHz

GPU: Custom RNDA 2, 12 TFLOPS, 52 Compute Unis at 1.825GHz

Memory: 16GB GDDR6

Storage: 1TB NVME SSD

Optical Drive: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Console Exclusive Launch Games

Playstation 5

Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Demon’s Souls

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition

Xbox Series X

No console exclusive games announced

Halo Infinite delayed

Both consoles will have backward compatible but Playstation 5 will only allow PS4 backwards compatibility while Xbox will allow backwards compatibility all the way back to the original Xbox.

Price and Release Date

Playstation 5

Price: £449.99

Release Dates:

12th November 2020 (US, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea)

19th November 2020 (Rest of the World)

Xbox Series X

Price: £449.99

Release Date:

10th November 2020 (Worldwide Release)