Xbox Series X is way more powerful than PlayStation 5

Now we finally know.

What you need to know


Xbox Series X is more powerful than the PlayStation 5.
Microsoft's console has a 1.875 teraflops advantage over Sony's machine.
Sony decided to go with a faster solid-state drive and forgo a rapid-switch external storage solution.
The processors of both consoles are roughly the same.


It's official. The Xbox Series X is more powerful than the PlayStation 5 (PS5). Today, Sony hosted a "Road to PS5" event in which designer Mark Cerny revealed the capabilities of the console. However, it seems like Eurogamer was able to get the specifications ahead and time and revealed them just as the event started.



The biggest takeaway from the event was the fact that the Xbox Series X is considerably more powerful than the PS5. The Xbox Series X features a faster processor, clocked in at 3.8 GHz, and a better graphic processing unit (GPU) that's 1.875 teraflops (TFLOPs) more powerful than the chip found inside the PS5. For reference, that's the po...