Not at all, Xbox One X run with DirectX api,  the most easiest API and well known for PC. This games are multiplat games that coming to PC so it's not that rocket science.

I'm still struggling a bit with how SSD will revolutionize level design. I get that developers will no longer need to design "staging" areas so the next big section can load, or bother with black loading screens during fast travel.

But what kinds of new designs will we see as a result of this shift, that don't already exist? Or is this not about new designs, but allowing cutting-edge graphics, long draw distances, and seamless open worlds to exist simultaneously?

I am genuinely curious about this, so I appreciate your thoughts!

I'm still struggling a bit with how SSD will revolutionize level design. I get that developers will no longer need to design "staging" areas so the next big section can load, or bother with black loading screens during fast travel.

But what kinds of new designs will we see as a result of this shift, that don't already exist? Or is this not about new designs, but allowing cutting-edge graphics, long draw distances, and seamless open worlds to exist simultaneously?

I am genuinely curious about this, so I appreciate your thoughts!

more powerful in TF yes ( that also just 42 %) PS4 pro has rapid Math while One X does not. Graphic is not just TF there is more than that. Even Digital Foundry said PS4 pro are lack  of bandwidth compared to  One X on top of that One X has 4 GB more RAM. That is the  biggest disadvantage Pro over One X. PS5 will not have the same problem because even if Series X is  560 GB/Second ,  some RAM  modul run slower at 330 GB/S.  while PS5 has unified number speed with 448 GB/S across the memory setup and has the same 16GB amount of RAM the same with Series X. 

Complete nonsense. Again you didn't listen to what Cerny said. Try again, starting around the 35 minute mark.

The PS5's maximum cpu and gpu clocks are UNKNOWN. The cpu is CAPPED at 3.5GHz. The gpu is CAPPED at 2.23GHz. These are the maximum frequencies allowed that guarantee correct operations inside the cpu and gpu, under all conditions. We have no idea how the cooling system (and power supply) was designed for what power dissipation limit. At worst, it was designed to just hold the 3.5/2.23GHz clocks (with rocket noise or not), at best it was designed to hold 4/2.5GHz clock levels (probably with rocket noise, those are some high frequencies). The proof is in the pudding, and we don't have any yet to eat.

When you place your PS5 into the fridge, it WILL indefinitely run games at the maximum allowed two frequencies as the cooling can handle max power without problems. The ability to shift power from the cpu to the gpu is always there, of course, but it will simply not take place due to the caps.

Now if you are the ranger in the Death Valley ranger station and decide to play a game around noon in the front yard, thing are different, there is a thermometer element hidden somewhere. Then all the frequency shifting takes place (incidentally, Cerny didn't say what happens when you really ARE in Death Valley locations. But so did he "miss to mention" critical stuff in other places). Who wins and who loses depends on what the game is doing at any moment in time, obviously. Don't expect to see significant drops, though. Cerny mentions a 10% in power drop only costs a few % in clock rates, so I'm guessing we won't likely see "bad" clock rates below the 2.1Ghz point on the gpu.

Not true. That's one of the points Cerny missed to address. The XSX can use 10Gbytes of ram at 560 GB/s. That is the obvious place where textures, frame buffers and all the key stuff is allocated. The compiler/linker will make sure of that, all games, all the time. The PS4 only has 448GB/s. If 448 GB/s is enough for safe 4k/60Hz I'm really not sure. The games wil tell, but I think this is a gamble (simply for using lower priced ram chips) that might not pay off in the end. On the same games, the XSX will have more (native) pixels on screen. On the other hand, the PS5 will have the "better" pixels if all the ssd-tricks are used.

The Smarshift in PS5 is specifically to give unused power from CPU to GPU, doesn't seem like it will be the same you have on notebook.

Rapid Packed Math cannot be used 100% of the time.
The Xbox One X still has the advantage in pure computational throughput.

No. You didn't listen to what Cerny said.
Try again when he starts talking about Smartshift.

The "Capped" CPU and GPU speeds are their "maximum".

They can and will potentially be lower than their maximum depending on component demands and TDP.

The next gen consoles have more "real world bandwidth" than the raw numbers will lead us to believe... There has been a multitude of improvements since the Xbox One and Playstation 4 launched on this front.

Also... A bit of stretch that the Playstation 5 will have "better pixels" when the Xbox Series X has more functional units to improve visual fidelity.

Correct. And that is exactly how it's done in a Notebook.

No. You didn't listen to what Cerny said.
Try again when he starts talking about Smartshift.

The "Capped" CPU and GPU speeds are their "maximum".

So I misunderstood you saying the GPU also send unused power to CPU as well (on PS5 it seemed an indication that only CPU to GPU path for this was made).

Still when he said 10% less power could be achieved with dropping only couple percentage on the frequency and performance drop would be minimal then it remain to be seem how that will work when games release. Because right now could be damage control and it will drop more than the 2% (perhaps to the leaked 9.2).

This was one of the points Cerny should definitely NOT have made in his talk, because it confuses people more than necessary. I guess the temptation of inserting a little pr with a buzzword was too high, so he added the Smartshift bit.

Again you don't understand "maximum" in that context. Both cpu and gpu could run faster than 3.5GHz and 2.23GHz (obviously as the cpu in the XSX runs at 3.66GHz). The capping runs both cpu and gpu BELOW the maximum clock rates possible, in order to maintain the power limit set by the cooling (which I really want to see).

Now if you ran Pong! on the PS5, the power draw on the cpu would be almost nil and Smartshift could in theory send dozens of Watts to the gpu. On the other hand, to save power, the gpu would probably be downclocked anyways so as to cool the entire system. It's Pong!, after all.

As the PS5 cooling system is apparently laid out to let both cpu and gpu simultaneously run at capped speeds (NOT maximum speeds) under "non-Dealth Valley conditions", Smartshift does absolutely nothing (except probably downclocking the cpu to cool the system). When the Tempest hardware and the ssd hardware are in full operations, my guess is downclocking will occur with a possible Smartshift contribution to hold the gpu at capped speed.

So when does Smartshift actually kick in? That is the part that was a little too fuzzy in Cerny's talk. He never answered that unasked question. Looking at the various statements he made about the whole power managment and what happens when and how long, there are a few open questions left.