At Sony’s PlayStation 5 Showcase this afternoon, the ultimate (and far awaited) items of the puzzle on the subject of the console’s launch have dropped: pricing and a launch date.
Sony’s next-generation console will launch on Thursday, November 12th. The full model of the console, which features a Blu-ray disc drive, will launch at $499. Meanwhile the “Digital Edition” of the console, which foregoes optical storage fully, will launch for a stunning $399, a full $100 cheaper regardless of solely giving up a disc drive.
This will put Sony’s launch 2 days after Microsoft’s personal Xbox Series X/S launch, which is going down on Tuesday, November 10th. The $499 price ticket for the 2 corporations’ respective flagship consoles will put them in direct competitors, whereas the PS5 Digital Edition/Xbox Series S divide ought to show much more attention-grabbing – if not a bit irritating for customers making an attempt to make the only option. The discless PS5 is each bit as highly effective as its disc-capable sibling – making it a spoiler of types at $399 – whereas the Xbox Series S will get a considerably weaker GPU than the Xbox Series X. However at $299 the slimmed down console is cheaper nonetheless, and nonetheless will get to run next-gen video games.
| Next-Gen Console Specs | ||||||
| PlayStation 5 | PlayStation 5 Digital Edition |
Xbox Series S | Xbox Series X | |||
| CPU | 8 Core AMD Zen 2 @ 3.5 GHz w/SMT |
8 Core AMD Zen 2 @ 3.6 GHz @ 3.four GHz w/SMT |
8 Core AMD Zen 2 @ 3.Eight GHz @ 3.6 GHz /wSMT |
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| GPU | 36 CU AMD RDNA2 @ 2.23GHz |
20 CU AMD RDNA2 @ 1.565 GHz |
52 CU AMD RDNA2 @ 1.825 GHz |
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| GPU Throughput (FP32) | 10.28 TFLOPS | four TFLOPS | 12.15 TFLOPS | |||
| Memory | 16GB GDDR6 @ 14Gbps |
10GB GDDR6 @ 14Gbps |
16GB GDDR6 @ 14Gbps |
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| Memory Throughput | 16GB@448GB/sec (256-bit) |
8GB@224GB/sec (128-bit) 2GB@56GB/sec (32-bit) |
10GB@560GB/sec (320-bit) 6GB@336GB/sec (192-bit) |
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| Storage | 825GB PCIe4 x4 SSD | 512GB PCIe four x2 SSD | 1TB PCIe four x2 SSD | |||
| Storage Throughput | 5.5GB/sec | 2.4GB/sec | ||||
| Storage Expansion | NVMe Slot PCIe4 x4 |
Xbox Storage Expansion Card (1TB) | ||||
| Disc Drive | 4K UHD Blu-Ray | No | No | 4K UHD Blu-Ray | ||
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | ||
| Launch Date | 2020/11/12 | 2020/11/10 | ||||
| Launch Price | $499 | $399 | $299 | $499 | ||
Or in case you’re within the temper for a PC (a platform we’re notably partial in direction of), over the subsequent couple of months we shall be seeing new {hardware} launches there as nicely, together with NVIDIA’s $500 GeForce RTX 3070, and AMD’s new RDNA2-based Radeon RX 6000 video playing cards. So there isn’t a scarcity of gaming {hardware} available this fall – at the least in case you have the money.
