Right now, it looks as if the Xbox Series X brings more graphics firepower to the table than the PlayStation 5. There are a number of additional factors that could still influence how the two consoles compare with each other, including aspects that have nothing to do with hardware, like whether Microsoft or Sony offers better dev tools and support. But as to the value of FLOPS as a metric for comparing console performance? Even in the best case, it isn’t great.
PlayStation 5 vs Xbox Series X - why teraflops is misleading
Posted on Tuesday, April 07 2020 @ 14:48 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckNot a whole lot of news today so lets take a look at what ExtremeTech has to say about the next generation of consoles over here. The site notes it's hard to compare the performance of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X based on teraflops figures, as these don't capture the full performance tale.
