As if you compare a supercomputer with a hand blender.
With the sample bin of one Sony Playstation 5 on the horizon it might be nice to look back at the past generation. If you have a console at home, the chance fairly high that it is a PlayStation 4. How are the specs of the past generation compared to the upcoming console? In this article we compare old and new. Oh, and before we start, in this article we compare the upcoming Xbox Series X with the PS5. That beatdown is a lot fairer than this…
The PlayStation 4 came out during the 2013 holidays for around € 400. He went over the counter over a hundred million times and was able to pump out absurdly beautiful graphics. For example, just look at Red Dead Redemption 2 or God of War.
That leaves us wondering how insane the graphics of the next generation of games will be. Let’s face it, high-end PCs even overshoot the upcoming PlayStation 5, so we’re already getting a sneak peek at PC gaming. But since PC titles have to work for practically endless configurations, graphics are often not really optimized.
Either way, the Playstation 5 naturally beats the PlayStation 4 in every way. It’s like having Max Verstappen race against a teenager who doesn’t yet have his driver’s license. Especially in the field of graphic computing power, Sony has gone really fast (but still not as hard as Microsoft). The clock speed has tripled while the teraflops output has flipped over 5 times.
The hard disk (SSD instead of HDD) also works 2 to 3 times faster; goodbye loading times. The processor’s clock speed has doubled, the amount of RAM has doubled (and the bandwidth is 2.5x as much) and of course the resolution cannot be compared. Up to 60fps at 1080p for the PlayStation 4, compared to 120fps in 4K and possibly even up to 8K!
Check out the full, totally unfair comparison below:
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PlayStation 5 |
PlayStation 4 |
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|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen “Zen 2” | AMD “Jaguar” |
| 8 Cores / 16 Threads | 8 Cores / 8 Threads | |
| Variable frequency, up to 3.5 GHz | Up to 1.6 GHz | |
| GPU | Custom RDNA 2 GPU | Custom Radeon GCN GPU |
| Variable frequency up to 2.23 GHz (10.3 TFLOPS) | 800 MHz (1.84 TFLOPS) | |
| 36 Computing Units | 18 Computing Units | |
| System Memory | GDDR6 16GB | GDDR5 8GB |
| 448GB / s Bandwidth | 176GB / s Bandwidth | |
| Storage area | 825GB SSD | 500 GB HDD |
| Bandwidth storage | 5.5 GB / s (raw), 9 GB / s (compressed) | 3 GB / s |
| Video Out | 4K @ 120fps, 8K @ variable refresh rate | 1080p @ 60fps |
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