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Though I plan on upgrading to a faster monitor soon, the Xbox Series X and PS5 times below are running at 4K resolution and 60 fps. I measured the loading times between hitting “continue” and gaining control of your character. Thanks to Stephen Totilo and his little white box, we also have times for the Xbox Series S (though not at 4K, of course).

Devil May Cry 5

• PlayStation 5: 4.01 seconds
• Xbox Series X: 5.59 seconds
• Xbox Series S: 6.95 seconds

and

For another test, we also measured the time to get from the launch icon on the consoles’ respective dashboards to the start menu, hitting start to bypass the opening cinematic.

"The hell? Double the load time? It seems the Xbox Series X took a little longer checking my network environment than the PS5 (it visibly lingered on the checking network screen), and there’s an extra prompt (press A on your controller) to go through."

• PlayStation 5: 19.52 seconds
• Xbox Series X: 41.98 seconds

NBA2K21:

Here’s hitting the button to launch a Play Now game, mashing through the prompts:

• PlayStation 5: 6.92 seconds
• Xbox Series X: 5.19 seconds
  

That’s fast. Almost too fast, as I like to use the loading times in sports games to convince myself that I suck at sports and should be playing some fluffy anime junk instead. Here are times from the consoles’ UI icons to the main menu:

• PlayStation 5: 14.43 seconds
• Xbox Series X: 22.81 seconds

PS5 And Xbox Series X Loading Times, Compared (They’re Close)

So far we’ve shown you how PS5 loads games very quickly and Xbox Series X and S load games very quickly. Long story short, both systems load next-gen games at ludicrous speeds while giving older games a little push. But in order to gauge how ludicrous is ludicrous, we needed to get a couple of...

kotaku.com

 

[OsirisBlack]

Pretty impressive

 

[Lethal01]

Let the games begin

 

[Iced Arcade]

Pretty solid. Damn that's close

Did you forget to put in sources for those times?

Edit: found https://kotaku.com/ps5-and-xbox-series-x-loading-times-compared-they-re-1845638380

 

[iHaunter]

That SSD doing work. Both are fast.

 

[Romulus]

Ass Creed Vahalla is about half as long to load on PS5 vs XSX

 

[Defrop]

Nope

XBOX SERIE X = 17 seconds


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PS5 = 7 seconds

 

[Rolla]

Both are incredibly fast but I have a feeling the loading speed and the inevitable conversation about "who is faster" will be a game by game basis thing as opposed to universal.

 

[Romulus]

Nope

Nope what?

 

[MasterCornholio]

I'm probably right that backwards compatibility isn't a good indication of each systems I/O. Once you have games built for them the results would be different.

Edit: Ok now that I know it's Kotaku it's best to wait. But I'm probably right that Next gen games will probably have shorter loads than BC games do.

 

[Knitted Knight]

Wait for others on this.

It's Kotaku of all places.

 

[Rolla]

Nope

That... That right there can't be real?!

 

[reinking]

I am really glad they brought SSD into this generation. I wish they had been a bit bigger but I will make do. These loading times are great and all but I want to see how it is going to impact game development. Seeing some of those insane Spiderman: MM videos makes me hopeful for what we are going to see this generation.

 

[JackMcGunns]

Good stuff all around, both benefit greatly from the SSD.

 

[Jaguar Victory]

Great load times all around. Love that NBA2K21 load. Whew.

 

[magaman]

That's not really close if you think about it. Shows at least 20-30% faster on the PS5 side if you look at percent differences.

 

[ToadMan]

Those are fine but I think the loading times in game will be the more critical rather than these dash board to game jumps.

That’s the bit that’s frustrating when changing screens, jumping between locations and that kind of stuff.

Also those times can be skewed by things other than loading - network tests for example.

 

[Tajaz2426]

Nice speeds all around. Going to get even better I believe as developers get more time with the SSDs.

 

[MarkMe2525]

That's not really close if you think about it. Shows at least 20-30% faster on the PS5 side if you look at percent differences.

Diminishing returns

 

[Redlight]

That's not really close if you think about it. Shows at least 20-30% faster on the PS5 side if you look at percent differences.

Only 20-30% is not what you'd expect from an SSD that's twice as fast, at least on paper.

 

[TLZ]

Good stuff from both

 

[MasterCornholio]

Only 20-30% is not what you'd expect from an SSD that's twice as fast, at least on paper.

It really depends on the game. Like Assassin's Creed is alot faster loading on the PS5 than the XSX. But with other games it might be closer.

 

[DavidGzz]

PS5 should be faster if you stick to one game. Quick resume would probably give a hefty edge to XSX if you're playing 2-3 games or more.

 

[MrFunSocks]

We know the PS5 will load faster, but the thing is that we’re at the point where even a 100% faster load time is only a few seconds, which doesn’t matter, especially with the series X’s Quick Resume. It’s not like it’s 2 minutes vs 4 minutes, it’s 7 seconds vs 14 seconds max. Both are fantastic and fast enough.

Like I have been saying for months, there comes a point where taking twice as long to load is irrelevant because 2x nothing is still nothing.

 

[DForce]

We know the PS5 will load faster, but the thing is that we’re at the point where even a 100% faster load time is only a few seconds, which doesn’t matter, especially with the series X’s Quick Resume. It’s not like it’s 2 minutes vs 4 minutes, it’s 7 seconds vs 14 seconds max. Both are fantastic and fast enough.

Like I have been saying for months, there comes a point where taking twice as long to load is irrelevant because 2x nothing is still nothing.

SSDs are scratching the surface of how it's going to be used in next gen consoles.

Fast SSDs will be used for streaming in assets and this is going to matter down the line. Those 1-2 second different might be come a factor down the line.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

Sony didn't go with this set up just to shave a few seconds off of what a more standard SSD could do to loading times it's going to help stream assets into games faster as well and that's the bigger benefit.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

SSDs are scratching the surface of how it's going to be used in next gen consoles.

Fast SSDs will be used for streaming in assets and this is going to matter down the line. Those 1-2 second different might be come a factor down the line.

I basically said the same thing and we posted like 1 second apart lol. Remember during the road to PS5 when Cerny talked about loading things as the character turns, it's likely that the PS5 SSD is only just fast enough to do that, anything that takes longer won't be able to do it in the same way.

 

[GribbleGrunger]

Phew ... it looks like the PS5 loads a few seconds faster. The generation is over!

 

[Tschumi]

Stuff

They're close? I see daylight brah.. except that one that you seemed to shoehorn in for something in the W column for XSX..

 

[MrFunSocks]

I basically said the same thing and we posted like 1 second apart lol. Remember during the road to PS5 when Cerny talked about loading things as the character turns, it's likely that the PS5 SSD is only just fast enough to do that, anything that takes longer won't be able to do it in the same way.

The Series X SSD is more than fast enough to do that too. How many GB of data do you think games are going to be loading in at a time?

 

[sendit]

This was expected. Sony first party studios will likely be the only ones to fully utilize PS5's I/O architect. We already see it with Spiderman MM (1-2 seconds from loading a save).

 

[Bittermich]

That's not really close if you think about it. Shows at least 20-30% faster on the PS5 side if you look at percent differences.

NBA2K21 loads faster on Xbox. And well. If a game loads 2 seconds on one console and 4 seconds in the other than this would be a 100% difference. But who cares? It’s only 4 seconds.
stop making the difference bigger than it is. No one cares about a few seconds.Short loading time is short.

 

[itsjustJEFF]

I personally don't care that much about load times, I sometimes rather enjoy them. On next gen games it all seems to be under 20 seconds, that's a win for me. I care more about what it means for developers. Having all that extra throughput, all that extra asset streaming capabilities is really all I care about. I'm just waiting for the games that finally utilize it to start showing up.

 

[AgentP]

Sony didn't do it for load screens. It's for developers and moving data around, see R&C. Cross gen and ports are not going to be indicative of performance either.

 

[Kagey K]

In the end people aren’t going to go have time to make a sandwich or smoke a carton of cigarettes while they wait for their game like we have seen in the past, looks like half the time you won’t even be able to scratch your ass.

I‘d say that’s a win for everyone. (Except people with itchy asses)

 

[longdi]

We gone from 2mins to 10s, what more do you even need, at least with the limitations of current flash technology.
Can we declare Albert Penello tweets a-ok yet?

 

[Valued Gamer]

It would fair to think the PS5 will have quicker load times, twice as quick actually.
If the XSX can close that gap by some XVA black magic then that a bonus.
And let's be honest, no one is going to buy one console over the other because it's load time is 4 seconds less a game.

 

[Silent Viper]

Need DF or IGN or DF proper comparisons. These are just all over the place

 

[jaysius]

Nope

XBOX SERIE X = 17 seconds
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PS5 = 7 seconds

You know what? I barely noticed the difference. When the times are this tight, I don't think it really matters. As someone else mentioned, it's good we're not looking at minutes but when it's mere seconds, it's almost splitting hairs.

Lets wait and see some numbers from optimized games to do Apples vs Apples of these 2 machines.

10 seconds extra from a crappy Ubislop title isn't a big deal at all.

 

[sinnergy]

So it real world performance you don’t see that 22 G per sec of the SONY Ssd compared to the 6 G of MS in effect ? WEIRD. Should be 4 about times faster .

 

[Ar¢tos]

So it real word performance you don’t see that 22 G per sec of the SONY Ssd compared to the 6 G of MS in effect ? WEIRD.

Launch titles are not using Oodle Texture.

 

[Dnice123]

While an article is nice a video would be better.

 

[Aidah]

Sony didn't do it for load screens. It's for developers and moving data around, see R&C. Cross gen and ports are not going to be indicative of performance either.

They did it for load screens as well as being fast and consistent enough to dependably load in huge amounts of data in real time, like when turning the camera...etc, which can have huge benefits. Yes we haven't scratched the surface of its usefulness, but almost no loading is part of the goal, and something like fast travel in Spiderman taking less than 2 seconds does feel incredible and does impact the overall experience very significantly.

 

[Kagey K]

While an article is nice a video would be better.

Once the NDAs lift we are going to see a ton of comparative stuff. I imagine there are a bunch of videos ready to go, but their hands are tied right now.

Hopefully most people will be enjoying their new comsoles instead of fighting about them on here when that happens though.

 

[v_iHuGi]

Not trying to defend Series X here BUT something wrong with these 41S on DMC V.

I don't believe that shit for a second.

 

[DForce]

We gone from 2mins to 10s, what more do you even need, at least with the limitations of current flash technology.
Can we declare Albert Penello tweets a-ok yet?

No.

If an extra 3-5 seconds didn't matter, then Mark Cerny would've went with a slower SSD.

PS5/XsX doesn't have any games that streaming in a lot of assets while you're playing a game. That's going to change a few years down the line and that few extra seconds is going to make a difference.

 

[Kagey K]

Not trying to defend Series X here BUT something wrong with these 41S on DMC V.

I don't believe that shit for a second.

We have seen a bunch of wildly different times coming out for the same game on the same console from different sources. In another day we will see some sort of consensus arrive based on conglomerated info.

These are the last shots fired before we can finally derive what the truth is.

 

[Jboemios]

No.

If an extra 3-5 seconds didn't matter, then Mark Cerny would've went with a slower SSD.

PS5/XsX doesn't have any games that streaming in a lot of assets while you're playing a game. That's going to change a few years down the line and that few extra seconds is going to make a difference.

Already moving goal post

 

[Kagey K]

Already moving goal post

Is it October 28 again?

 

[cyberheater]

But bu b b b b.... Sony’s magic SSD.