PlayStation 4 Faster than Xbox One

Reports from anonymous development sources say PlayStation 4 is faster than the Xbox One, even peaking at 50 percent at some key areas.

The report says memory reads on PlayStation 4 are 40-50 percent faster than Xbox One, also the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) on Sony's graphic card is reported to be twice as fast than its next-gen competitor.

One of the developers gave a basic example a current multiplatform title can run at a resolution of 1920x1020 at 30fps on PlayStation 4, but that on Xbox One the framerate will drop to 20-something at the lower resolution of 1600x900.

Another developer said “Xbox One is weaker and it's a pain to use its ESRAM.”

“Let’s say you are using procedural generation or raytracing via parametric surfaces--that is, using a lot of memory writes and not much texturing or ALU--Xbox One will be likely be faster.”

Microsoft will launch the Xbox One on November 22, with Sony opting to release the PlayStation 4 in North America on November 15 and on November 29 in Europe.