A new technical analysis from Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry shows that the Xbox Series X version of Alan Wake 2 outperforms the PS5 version on several occasions.
Last week, one of the first Alan Wake 2 comparisons from ‘ElAnalistaDebits’ showed minimal differences between the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of Remedy’s most recent title, but this new comparison from Digital Foundry shows that the Xbox Series X version benefits from raw computing power. As can be seen in this technical analysis, performance in the game’s “Performance Mode” is roughly 20% to 25% better on the Xbox Series X compared to the PS5 version. Whereas the Xbox Series X version offers a nearly stable 60FPS in performance mode, the PS5 version appears to suffer from dips to 49FPS. Meanwhile, in the game’s quality mode, we can see a locked 30FPS on Series X with occasional drops on PlayStation 5.
“Today, @oliemack takes a look at the Xbox Series X/S versions of Alan Wake 2″, Digital Foundry wrote on Twitter. “There are still bugs to address but Series X is a treat, ironing out most of PS5’s performance dips. Series S is necessarily compromised, but still well worth playing.”
Digital Foundry’s Alexander Battaglia added, “Good to see the raw compute of XSX be meaningful – really stable 60 while PS5 can be like 49 FPS at the same moment.”
He continued, “I always imagined as compute becomes more important over time vs. pixel shading or otherwise… we saw that a good deal with GCN vs. Pascal +Maxwell.”
You can check out the new technical analysis from Digital Foundry below:
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Alan Wake 2 is available worldwide now for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Be sure to read our very own review of this long-overdue sequel here.
