Stray made its way to Xbox last month after a year of being PlayStation-exclusive, and outlet Digital Foundry has taken a look at how the new Xbox versions stack up in comparison.
The new-gen versions of this cat-tastic adventure are perhaps as we expected here - Xbox Series X runs at full 4K 60FPS while Xbox Series S sticks to the same frame rate target at 1080p. Both versions are pretty smooth as well, outside of the odd hiccup mostly limited to cutscene playback.
However, the last-gen Xbox consoles throw up some interesting results, especially Xbox One X. Microsoft's 2017 mid-gen console aims for 60FPS at an even higher resolution than Xbox Series S, but the results are wildly inconsistent. In practice, One X rarely hits 60FPS at all and the resolution still drops all the way down to the 1080p range, as you can see in the video up above.
"Overall, Xbox One X offers an ambitious, but on balance unsuccessful trade between performance and image quality. For those without VRR-supported displays, it would benefit hugely from a 30FPS cap option."
In truth, we're glad the team decided to go for consistency over pure number-chasing on current-gen consoles - both Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S look very consistent running at their 60FPS targets!
DF has delivered the technical results then, and Stray remains a very impressive indie outing on Xbox. If you'd like some thoughts on the game itself, we'll drop last month's hands-on impressions down below.
Are you surprised by Xbox One X here? Let us know your thoughts on these findings down below.
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Well the Series S - with its 4TF GPU - delivers a consistent 60fps at 1080p, whilst the PS4 Pro with its 4.2TF GPU only offers a 1080/30 experience. Despite on paper, a weaker GPU, is actually delivering twice as many frames per second and even the XB1X with its 6TF GPU can't hit a Consistent 60fps even though the res can drop to the same 1080p.
Which just goes to show that you can't gauge a console based on GPU teraflops alone....
@BAMozzy Of course not, you never could.
Before the GPU can do anything the CPU has to process everything and build what the GPU is going to render.
The Series S has a 8core, 3.6ghz processor. Whereas the PS4 Pro has a 8 core 2.6ghz processor.
What you can do, is if you have enough GPU left over, is off load, albeit inefficiently, some CPU cycles.
This is why the One X is pull 60 FPS as it has a 6.0tflop GPU. Versus the PS4 Pro's 4.2tflop. When compared to the Series S's 4.0tflop.
@InterceptorAlpha I know that CPU is the 'brains' of a game and is important too in performance - as is latency and bandwidth of the system.
However, my point was to highlight that for others who only see the Series S as a 'weaker' system than the 1X and maybe more on a par with a PS4 Pro because of the theoretical max number of Compute they can reach - whether its 1.4, 1.84, 4, 4.2, 6, 10, 12 or 20TF's...
There is still this narrative around the Series S as being worse than a 1X and maybe not better than a PS4 Pro because of its GPU despite having virtually the same CPU as a Series X and more available RAM than a PS4 Pro too...
The series s is a grand next gen machine obvious drawbacks yes but at the price it's a steel and has sold more units than the series x because of that so the majority of this generations Xbox owners are on series s to much is made of its lack of power
@BAMozzy There are some specific situations where a Series S IS worse than a Xbox One X, especially in terms of resolution or frame rate. But in almost all cases Series S will beat it in all other areas.
As @InterceptorAlpha rightly said you couldn't ever compare just TF, or compare one generation to another. Doing that would be like comparing HP on a car and expecting that to tell you which can get round a track quicker. It's all the components working together that gives a unit it's power. Series S is truly amazing considering the price.
@Kaloudz I hear ya haha. Mine is still connected to the TV in the living room but it was rendered useless with the purchase of my Series X.
Have a Series X now, but always glad to see a game perfectly playable on the old One S with an older 1080p TV!
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