PS5 could outperform Xbox Series X in one area

Sony has been pretty tight-lipped when it comes to its upcoming next-gen console, the PS5. But if a recent leak is to be believed, the PlayStation 5 might have an edge over its upcoming competitor, the Xbox Series X.

An anonymous post made to the online forum 4chan showing a list of the PS5 specs, Inverse reported. Based on this leak, it appears that the upcoming Sony console might have an edge over Microsoft’s Xbox Series X in terms of teraflops. However, readers take this leak with a grain of salt as there is no way to verify it at this point.

Here are the supposed PS5 specs leaked on 4chan:

13.3 TF Custom RDNA 2 GPU @ 1.7 GHZ with 60 Compute Units

AMD Zen 2 8 core @ 3.4 GHZ (Sony is working on boosting to 3.7GHZ)

RAM 16 GB GDDR6 + 4GB DDR4

1 TB SSD at 5.5 GB/s

Dedicated RT and 3D Audio cores

565 GB Bandwidth

Full digital backward compatibility with every PlayStation console and handheld for a library of 1000’s of games on day 1

Enhanced Dual Shock 5 with haptic triggers, heartbeat monitors and built-in microphone

PlayStation AI assistant that allows you to change games create parties and more with voice commands

Meanwhile, Microsoft also revealed some of the Xbox Series X specs last month via a blog post. The upcoming console will feature 12 TFLOPS of GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) performance, said to be eight times that of the original Xbox one and twice what one will get from the Xbox One X.

Assuming that the 4chan PS5 specs leak is accurate, it means that the Sony console will have 1.3 more TFLOPS of GPU performance. But the question is if that 1.3 extra teraflops will make a difference in terms of performance.

“Teraflops alone don’t determine how well a console runs, however,” Inverse wrote. “It will all come down to how each console’s parts interact with each other based on their system architecture.” This means that actual performance will decide if the extra teraflop would matter that much to gamers.

With the two consoles’ specs almost identical save that 1 extra teraflop, the upcoming next-gen console war will likely be won in terms of pricing and the game exclusives that come with the hardware.