When the PS5 and Xbox Series are announced Microsoft’s console is more powerful, at least on paper. However, in practice, Sony’s console managed to move some games better, which caused a lot of controversy and made us think that the developers were to blame.

The truth is, we’re not completely off the hook, as the key lies in the game development tools for both consoles, according to Digital Foundry. PS5 has a perfectly optimized set of tools which allows full use of the console’s hardware, and developers prefer Sony’s implementation in this regard.

In the case of the Xbox Series would be penalized to the ability to take advantage of said console’s low-end hardware. This theme is something very important, in fact it has always been one of the keys to that development, which at the hardware level seemed impossible to bring to the console.

The PS5 has a higher frequency GPU and that helps

However, the question of development tools is not the only key to this whole matter. Digital Foundry says that some graphics engines benefit from increased working speed that the PS5 GPU has, while other graphics engines take advantage of more more shaders which has an Xbox Series X GPU.

Interestingly, most games run better on PS5 They are intergenerational transitional titles, such as Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Resident Evil 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and GTA V Next Gent. This leads me to believe that GPU frequency is more important than total number of shaders in this type of game.

In the end, that has to be reckoned with each graphics engine is a world, which have their advantages and disadvantages, as well as relying more on certain technical aspects that ultimately have a significant impact on each game’s development and performance. On the other hand, we must also remember that although the Xbox Series X has a more powerful GPU, splitting its memory system can ultimately have a negative effect on performance.

Another important difference between the two consoles is the PS5’s decompression and storage system, which achieves perfect hardware acceleration and allows you to completely free up the CPU these types of tasks that are not up to this level on the Xbox Series X, which will ultimately affect the performance of the processor, especially in areas where it has to work at full power.