 It's console wars d-day ladies and gentlemen. We've got both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox series here in the studio We've got all the launch games you care about and we are running HDMI 2.0 into an 88 inch OLED TV It's time to put these consoles side by side and see how they perform mano-e-mano Well, they're not human but You get it Origin PC desktops can now be customized with Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards If you're in the market for a new PC powered by Nvidia's latest graphics cards and backed by a 24-7 support team Check out origin BC systems at the link below We've already heard a ton about the super fast loading speeds on both next-gen consoles Thanks to their SSDs the Xbox series X's SSD is a raw throughput of 2.4 Gigabytes per second while the PlayStation 5 more than doubles that to 5.5 gigabyte per second raw So you might expect the PS 5 to beat the Xbox in every test by a wide margin, right? Well Hold on a minute both booting the consoles cold and waking them from sleep are faster on the Xbox by a few seconds And even when it comes to loading games the consoles trade blows in Assassin's Creed Valhalla Loading a game from the menu was a bit quicker on the Xbox while in dirt 5 the PlayStation 5 pulled ahead by a slight margin And of course if the game needs to connect to an online service before dropping you back in that's going to inflate the load times No matter what console you're playing on if you're loading a game from a console sleep state though The Xbox is always faster at least in our tests It seems that the faster SSD on the PlayStation 5 might be being bottlenecked by its slightly slower CPU Meaning that in almost every backwards compatible game or games that aren't optimized for either systems IO architecture specifically The Xbox will likely load faster And that's without even mentioning the Xbox's quick resume feature which drops you right back into the action Instead of into the game start menu it is sorely missed on the PlayStation 5 But considering next-gen load speeds absolutely decimate the minute plus wait times of previous consoles It's hard to complain about a few extra seconds here or there now Let's compare some game visuals starting with multi-platform titles and wow these are remarkably similar That's because the consoles are architecturally similar with AMD Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA GPUs Though the Xbox has a slight advantage in both cases at least on paper in practice the image quality between the consoles is Very similar, but differences can emerge depending on the situation Our friends at Digital Foundry have pointed out that while playing on the favor frame rate mode the PlayStation 5 actually adds more background foliage in dirt 5 whereas in favor resolution mode where the Resolution remains locked at 4k in exchange for looser frame rates games either felt slightly smoother perhaps because the PS 5 doesn't have variable refresh rate implemented just yet or Pushed closer to full res more often on the Xbox letting small details like the cars grills look slightly better Some games are more of a toss-up though NBA 2k21 looks truly next-gen on both consoles Except for the visible aliasing on the PS 5 it's slightly smoother But the depth of field effect and extra per-object motion blur on the Xbox deals with it in its own way How about next-gen exclusives though? Well the series X doesn't have any which brings us then to spider-man Miles Morales on the PS 5 while the game looks great it feels less next-gen than I had hoped Looking better than the PS 4 version, but not really that much better Which if you think about it is really just praise for the incredible optimization job They did on the two-year-old PS 4 version on the PS 5 though the addition of ray traced reflections makes swinging through a Frozen glassy New York feel brand new although ray tracing is locked into the 30 FPS mode once you switch to 60 FPS You're probably never gonna go back to ray tracing Even if it uses less attractive screen space reflections the PS 5 has global settings like universal toggles for game difficulty performance priorities and Accessibility options like the Xbox's quick resume. They're just nice to have things strangely though the thing I found most exciting about my experience on the PS 5 was actually the controller Yes, the DualSense has been upgraded with a mic USB type-c charging and resistive triggers Which make the Xbox triggers feel dull and boring in comparison until today I gotta say I never really imagined feeling Directionality in the vibrations of a controller the experience was something totally new kind of like hearing a stereo recording after a life of mono In conclusion you can't go wrong with either choice each console offers a compelling set of reasons Why it's the best console Xbox has power speed backwards compatibility and the value with financing and Xbox game pass But while Sony doesn't have a real competitor to game pass They do have some proven studios making amazing exclusive games right now They've got a non proprietary storage upgrade solution Although you can't quite upgrade just yet And they've got an all digital console that packs all of the firepower of its more expensive sibling for a hundred dollars cheaper making it Look to me way more compelling than the Xbox series s Man these guys are really not making it easy. What do you say Colton? Should we just get both? 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