PS5's PUBG Port Will Target a Lower Resolution Than Xbox Series X, Trophies Won't Transfer

"While the Xbox Series X is technically a touch more powerful than the PS5, this rarely shows up in real-world performance" this is just 100% facts, I know the Xbox players on this site will argue it.

I wonder how much AI went into the port.

Every single PC oriented YouTube channel I’ve seen all complain how poor the optimization of PUBG is. I imagine it’s the same on console. I wouldn’t be surprised if a more skilled team could squeeze out better performance on base PS5, but 1440p is sharp enough already. It’s when resolutions dip down toward 1080p that it looks fuzzy on a 4K set.

@Oram77 From what I understand, this is because the Series X uses "off-the-shelf" internal hardware, whereas PS5 has custom internal hardware that utilizes tech/power more efficiently. Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt, though. I'm not a techie and am basically regurgitating what I've heard elsewhere.

@Oram77
I watch a lot of DF type reviews and across the generation its fair to say that in more cases than not (excluding a number of Xbox studio games, of course) the PS5 has actually proven to perform slightly better overall than Series X, so I don't know what they think they are doing here.
They may well be doing a lazy port of PC code, where the advantages of the more custom PS5 hardware can't be utilised.

One thing I will note however, is that it is more common than you may think for titles to have a slightly (and imperceptibility) higher resolution on Series X, but suffer in terms of performance.
It may well be that this game has a higher resolution, but significant performance issues on Series X.

Wait?! PUBG still exists?! And people still play it?! Bruv?!

?!?!

@wildcat_kickz

Xbox Series hardware is custom as well. It supports some features the PS5 doesn’t, but for most game engines, they are just ignored.

The bigger difference lies in the arrangement of the graphics units: Xbox Series X has more cores (52 compared to 36 in PS5), but on lower clocks. The resulting raw power of Series X is ca. 20% higher, but in real life it’s more complicated. Think of two departments of the same type, one with 52 workers, the other with 36 significantly faster workers (heavy simplification). Organising the tasks with fewer workers is easier, they are earlier available to take the next task, unproductive downtimes are reduced.

That’s the reason why in many games, especially with a lower level of optimisation by the developers, the PS5 is on a same level as the Xbox. Other developers are better skilled or spend more resources into optimising and can therefore benefit from Xbox‘s advantage in raw performance. I don’t think that this is the case here for PUBG: The real resulting resolutions will probably much closer than „1440p vs. 4k“ suggests.

Sony‘s main advantages of its approach: Fewer cores reduce the expensive chip space, and 36 cores is the same number as for PS4 Pro, so PS4 Pro optimised games greatly use the PS5 hardware for backwards compatibility.

@Max_the_German
Your both kind of right.

The PS5 is by far the more custom of the 2, even to the point of being a non standard arrangement of components on the main chip. Various other parts, most notably the SSD and controller are custom too.

In this regard, the Xbox is very much a 'standard' parts build, with nothing out of the ordinary. 1 area I suppose you could say is custom is the RAM setup - split pool with 2 different speeds of RAM, but this was cost based, and has worked against the console on a number of occasions.

RE 'features' the PS5 doesn't support - you are probably thinking hardware based Variable Rate Shading (VRS). This really has proved itself to be less impactful than some said it would be (often with miniscule gains), and you can use a software based VRS on PS5 anyway. I remember NX gamer spoke a lot about this during his reviews of Dead Space.

You are right about 52 slower compute units vs 36 faster ones for the PS5, and that this has proved more difficult to code for (utilisation of more compute units) - leading to better overall performance on PS5 in a greater number of cases.

However in terms of the GPU comparison, its likely not close to 20%.
The 12 Tflops stated by MS is a theoretical max value, same as 10.3 is on the PS5.
A number of devs etc came out (quite early on if I recall) with more realistic figures (ie real world normal use) for series X of 10.5 if you can fully utilise all compute units.
We also know for a fact that the PS5 is 10 Tflops under normal operation - as Mark Cerny has clarified this, including clock speeds, when discussing PS5 Pro (16.7 Tflop normal operation), and 'flopflation' - his term for when theoretical maximums are much higher than real world normal use.

1 final point regarding the whole custom vs std build - if devs do a 'lazy' PC port it is often the PS5 (and Pro) that will suffer more, due to it being a more custom build. But this is a very bad way to properly take advantage of any console.

@AhmadSumadi pubg is always in the top5 games on steam. Has been for years! They are even making the game in an entirely new engine

@themightyant
Not a bad analogy - I've probably heard it before, but can't remember it. It makes sense.

It does raise into question what on earth these devs are doing to 'target' 4k on series X and 1440p on base PS5 - either this is just bad development / under utilisation on PS5, and/or the series X is going to have (potentially serious) performance issues to achieve it.
Or we get to testing and find out it doesn't matter what target they are using, they are both running at 1080p lol.

@Boxmonkey I didn’t know that. That’s cool. It’s been years since I’ve seen anyone playing it.