Unreal 5 Demo vs Series X Reveal

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goopy20 said:

shikamaru317 said:

The SSD in XSX is plenty fast enough to prevent pop-in. It's throughput is something like 40x faster than the 5400 RPM hard drives in XB1 and PS4. The faster SSD in PS5 will mainly show itself in load times I think, but even then I think it'll be a fairly small improvement.

The only thing Sony seems to have talked about is their SSD tech and how its supposed to be a game changer. Loads of people where skeptical but that Unreal demo did a pretty good job at showing what it all means. Series X also has a very fast SSD but Sony's is still twice as fast. I guess we have to wait and see what that means and how big a role Sony's SSD played in getting those visuals from the Unreal demo on screen. Either Sony paid Epic off, or they truly think Sony's SSD is the biggest breakthrough when it comes to next gen hardware.

In order for us to know exactly how much impact the SSD will have we would need to see comparisons of PC and XSX running the same demo and giving the same time and effort for optimization.  That demo did nothing to really tell us how much difference Sony SSD makes.  Until we see actual games from both companies taking advantage of their hardware we really will not get a clear picture on this front.