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A couple of major reasons compared to the Xbox Series X: - Sony's CPU + GPU are slightly higher clocked than Microsoft's, which typically means special binning
by paulpan 6y ago
A couple of major reasons compared to the Xbox Series X:
- Sony's CPU + GPU are slightly higher clocked than Microsoft's, which typically means special binning required and increases costs (Bloomberg story collaborates on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/sony-is-said-to-cut-ps5-forecast-by-4-million-due-to-chip-woes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/sony-is-s...)
- Proprietary storage system, super fast but R&D dedicated to design and implement it
Ultimately both companies losing money on these initial sales but it seems Sony losing more than Microsoft.
- _kbh_ 6y agoI think its a bit of a wash personally, the PS5 runs faster and has proprietary storage. But the GPU only has 70% the CU's of the XSX meaning that the overall APU should be significantly smaller, assuming the CUs are similar in size. This would increase the number of usable APUs per wafer.