Microsoft: Xbox Series S and X only next-gen consoles with full RDNA 2 feature set

[sales2099]

Hiku said:

sales2099 said:

Sorry I don’t read all posts. And I’m not a technical guy. It’s all up in the air I suppose but putting the various little pieces together it’s a odds-stacked-against-Sony bet that the PS5 RDNA is superior to what Xbox is packing. Seems to me they put most of their cost into the SSD and controller redesign where as MS simply has in-house tech that’s cutting edge. 

Well I wasn't suggesting that PS5's RDNA was superior to Xbox's. I'm just trying to point out that all three of these companies, Sony, MS and AMD, developed these chips together, at the same time, and chose what they thought is best for their system.

The only caveat is DirectX, because it's MS's patented technology.
So it is possible that Sony wanted to use it, but wasn't allowed to. It's also possible they didn't want to because it belongs to MS, and AMD were confident in developing alternatives for them.

Sony did put more money into the SSD and controller, and that's showing when you compare the compute units and clock speeds of some of the components.
But that's not a sign of cutting development short. For example, AMD just showed off their new CPU and GPU. In several different price ranges.
They're all based on the exact same technology, but they can hit different price ranges by altering the specs.

And it was the lower specs that in 2019 made some people speculate that PS5 was supposed to come out in 2019.
No one knew at the time that it would have an expensive SSD instead.

So what’s the take? When can Xbox fans be proud that they have the edge on specs without being challenged consistently on the slightest vaguest possibilities. Writing is practically on the wall.