[chemgear]

Nothing overly surprising but here are benchmark numbers for the two "new" consoles and against some GPU's. Interesting how roles have reversed from the 360 & PS3 generation where the Xbone looks to need more developer effort to optimize the hardware but yet still will not keep up to the PS4.

PC master race continues to trample every one else (if you have the money to upgrade as needed).

Spoiler!

Here are the benchmarks for theoretical peak performance under ideal conditions. As you can see, the benchmark of the PS4 is nice and clean since all variables are known. However the same cannot be said for the Xbox One. We are conveniently getting two situations. One in which the Xbox One is running without any eSRAM. And the second in which the eSRAM is the only primary memory (meaning the DDR3 Shared RAM is not accounted for) available. Now how exactly do we merge the two scenarios? Well, we can’t. Not without completely nullifying the integrity of this benchmark. I can tell you the basic idea though. What happens is that both the states are actually used simultaneously in the architecture of the Xbox One. Therefore you will see increased performance over the “No eSRAM” state depending on how effectively the developers utilize the frame buffering offered by the 32MB worth of eSRAM.

Let me elaborate: If they cannot properly utilize the eSRAM at all (which is physically impossible I might add), you will get the ‘no eSRAM’ performance. Depending on how much they are able to utilize the eSRAM some portion of the ‘eSRAM only’ bar will be added to the lowest bar. However they cannot and never will be fully added. You will never get 23 + 27 = 50 Relative Points. Since they are utilizing the same GPU, realistically speaking the absolute maximum performance you can expect is till 32 – 35 Relative points. That is still lower than PS4 because nothing can account for the lower number of Stream Processors which is the heart of GPU horsepower. Bottom Line is, the more developers optimize eSRAM, the more frames and higher resolution you are going to get (32MB eSRAm is theoretically enough for 1080p) but even that has a limit and the PS4 will always remain at an advantage