The console with an inferior GPU, a slower CPU, lower memory bandwidth and is larger is now better thought out and developed
Looking at the power supply and the fact the PS5 has to downclock at a certain power threshold, a point a lot of people are conveniently forgetting, I'd be pretty surprised if the XSX isn't also cooler and quieter on top.
Are you trolling, aren't you? I wonder when people will realize that TF aren't the best metric for this shit. I guess you missed Mark Cerny's Road to PS5, please watch it.
This generation is nothing like previous generations, we are not talking having a magical chip like CELL or just mid/low range GPUs with awful laptop CPUs. We are talking innovation from both sides. What you reduce to 'has to downclock at a certain power' is something extremely untold of on console: variable frequencies.
What Cerny is doing with those variable frequencies is getting more compute with a smaller (and probably cheaper) chip, which is what everyone should strive for: more with less. Not only the PS5 had a lot of tought on how to make these changes in frequencies deterministic, they are also visible to the devs. Developers are not working with a fucking black box and trying to figure out if their games will run at X, Y or Z frequency, like many people think the PS5 will downclock like a PC card.
If Cerny's approach proves to be good and doable (spoiler: We already know it is! Just look at PS5 games), this is the future for this industry. 2GHz base clocks is something unheard of on cards, but now we are getting a 2.23GHz console!! If you really want to downplay that, go ahead. Just please don't imply the PS5 isn't the better thought or developed console, because just for this fundamental change in clockspeed, it is the most engineered console in the room.
Make this thought experiment, you go to the engineers at Microsoft and make the following offer:
Do you want a smaller chip that can give you more compute 99% of the time and when the 1% situation comes you will know how to circumvent that, do you want the chip?
Do you want a cooling system that was developed for 2 years and has the same performance of a vapour chamber but for a fraction of its price?
If Xbox is what floats your boat, enjoy it mate. Just don't downplay the PS5 like it is a piece of electronic trash because some numbers are smaller.