{"id":100726,"date":"2016-08-11T11:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100726"},"modified":"2016-08-11T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:52:34","slug":"xbox-one-s-versus-playstation-neo-specifications-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/100726-xbox-one-s-versus-playstation-neo-specifications-and-performance","title":{"rendered":"Xbox One S versus PlayStation Neo &#8211; specifications and performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Xbox One S and PlayStation Neo are on the horizon, and gamers will soon be faced with a choice between the two consoles.<\/p>\n<p>Although the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/100543-xbox-one-s-performance-details-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox One S <\/a><\/strong>is not meant to be a massive performance improvement or a 4K gaming machine, gamers may\u00a0still choose to upgrade their Xbox One to the slimline version instead of the PlayStation Neo if they want to take advantage of Microsoft&#8217;s new Play Anywhere feature or platform-exclusive games.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the known specifications and performance details of the two upcoming consoles:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Specifications<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Xbox One S<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GPU Clock Speed<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 914MHz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory Bandwidth<\/strong> &#8211; 219GB\/s<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory<\/strong> &#8211; 8GB 2,133MHz DDR3 + 32MB ESRAM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PlayStation Neo<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Compute Units<\/strong> &#8211; 36 GCN 4.0<\/li>\n<li><strong>GPU Clock Speed<\/strong> &#8211; 911MHz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory<\/strong> &#8211; 8GB GDDR5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory Bandwidth<\/strong> &#8211; 218GB\/s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Performance Improvements<\/h3>\n<p>It is important to note that the Xbox One S is not specifically marketed as a performance improvement over the original Xbox One, but does provide performance increases in a number of games.<\/p>\n<p>The Xbox One&#8217;s performance improvements are very small however, with a maximum increase of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2016-08-02-xbox-one-s-release-date-specs-price\" target=\"_blank\">9 frames-per-second<\/a><\/strong> in certain games.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the\u00a0PlayStation Neo will be a next-gen gaming platform, featuring an advertised <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2016-sonys-plan-for-playstation-4k-neo-revealed\" target=\"_blank\">2.3x performance improvement<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>over its predecessor, making it considerably more powerful than the Xbox One S.<\/p>\n<p>The new PlayStation console will probably be priced higher than the Xbox One S, meaning that these two products could\u00a0exist in different performance and pricing brackets altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Project Scorpio will be the company&#8217;s next-gen console, and is set\u00a0to appear at some point in 2017.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Can hackers really control your PC though your Intel processor?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/99604-can-hackers-really-control-your-pc-though-your-intel-processor.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Can hackers really control your PC though your Intel processor?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia Titan X Pascal versus Titan X \u2013 4K performance comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100545-nvidia-titan-x-pascal-versus-titan-x-4k-performance-comparison.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia Titan X Pascal versus Titan X \u2013 4K performance comparison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How humans could evolve into machines\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/100705-how-humans-could-evolve-into-machines.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How humans could evolve into machines<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Xbox One S and PlayStation Neo are on the horizon, and gamers will soon be faced with a choice between the two consoles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":94911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,11681,4],"tags":[10519,18105,20328,13978,1239,20502,14560,243],"class_list":["post-100726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-comparison","tag-neo","tag-one","tag-performance","tag-playstation-4","tag-s","tag-specifications","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100862,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100726\/revisions\/100862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}