Xbox Series X Temperature Test Extinguishes Overheating Rumours

It melts my hand...cuz Imma snowman. ☃️

According to Geronimo_73, Series X runs cooler than PS5 and according to Eurogamer, "Series X didn't once get hot, or even beyond slightly warm".

https://twitter.com/geronimo_73/status/1314656887900696576

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-10-15-living-with-the-xbox-series-x

Powerful, cool and silent! Superb engineering.

Impressive. They’ve managed to keep it quite compact and relatively cool, great achievement.

@Kefka2589 I don't have a Pro but I have a PS4. I was surprised to see PS4 Pro running 5ºC hotter than Xbox One X is spite of being less powerful and now PS5 also runs hotter than Series X being less powerful (yet overclocked). Microsoft's engineers are awesome and they use high-quality solutions like vapour cooling.

Yeah, that huge heat pipe, free space and holes in PS5 should help to keep it cool! It's like Super Mario designed it himself. How many coins can you insert into the pipe? 😂.

its actually quite amazing reading those stats. How something so much more powerful can run cooler than such old tech is baffling with my lack of clue as to how they do it. Makes you wonder why the last gen tech ran so hot?
Wonder who is getting the PS5 to test the temperatures as they aren't handing out any gaming details. Feels like these guys have been secretly given a PS5 but are embargoed on everything but temperature readings.

@StonyKL The consoles are being distributed now, remember that video of that clerk/lorry driver unboxing a Series X?

@Senua snowman discrimination is still a massive issue in 2020. People really got the gaming snowman associations hopes up when they said Xbox was making a fridge... xcloud came through for them in the end though. Expect a partnership with Samsung fridges to drive up GPU subscriptions this holiday season.

@BlueOcean for insecure players Sony has given them a chance to say they have a fat pipe and pass a lie detector test.

@Kefka2589 that would be extremely unfortunate....and uncomfortable...and really hard to explain. When fanboys say F*$& PS5 this isn't what they meant.

@Kefka2589 @Krzzystuff 🤣🤣🤣

That's helpful. But no game currently available comes close to pushing the console. Backward compatible games work with a lot of the power locked off by design. DIRT 5 is available on both generations, so is still just a glossed up Xbox One game. A more accurate comparison won't be possible for months yet, when an exclusively next-gen game taxes the Series X.

I'm not as concerned as I was and would preorder if I could. But Microsoft understood hardware when it designed the Xbox 360, so I wouldn't assume the new console is perfectly designed either. I plan to prop mine up a bit with something under the stand to ensure maximum airflow.

@BlueOcean This sounds so wrong. Lorry driver unboxing a Series X? That could have been mine! Cheeky b%$^"£"

I'm just wondering this Geronimo_73 person you refer to who has the PS5 temperature stats. Is he a reviewer or something? I wouldn't mind some updates on other stuff about the PS5 that most people are after and not just the temperature of it.

Reading about temperatures like this in the grand scheme of things is so pointless but better than not reading anything due to the ongoing hype! But if you know the dude can you get some more details on the PS5 - like how long does it actually take to boot up - and did he manage to fit it in his TV cabinet or not?

@StonyKL check out the Austin Evan's video where he tests it in a box to simulate a Media unit. No issues with the machine

Also message Jeff Grub or Jez Corden and ask them your questions, they are actively taking them from people

https://youtu.be/n5eXwMCa3Ko

@StonyKL I have heard that he had to move the media centre to the garage because of the PS5 size.

Rumours were only spread by biased journalists and sony fanboys..

So we can use it as a fridge then 🤣
See all those pathetic rumours and the series x comes out better again.

Hotter is all relative. All that really matters is power consumption total, and if the internals are within tolerance. If both are with in tolerance, both were well designed. If neither has an excessive power draw and thus excessive heat output compared to the other at their respective internal temperatures, both are well designed to their spec.

@Kefka2589 "But seriously, I could hop down that heatpipe and pop out in Bowsers castle. Lmao"

That's hilarious

I don't know, the buzz, admittedly from the Sony side, is that Sony's development tools are still much easier to use than MS's, and thus that optimizing for the advantages of Sony's hardware is going to be easier, which matters, because supposedly there are some advantages with their higher clocks and their IO architecture for the development methodologies of the "true next gen" games after the cross gen era is over. It's not that XSX can't be similarly optimized or that the two can't be pretty much equivalent with different pros and cons.....just that it's easier to do for PS, mostly because of the software tools, more than the hardware. We'll see how that pans out over time though. If the XSX ends up superior hardware that tends not to be as well optimized because the dev tools are rougher, or if it all ends up equally easy.

@NEStalgia just curious about the ease of development for the PS5... aren't Capcom having major issues with resident evil for the PS5 vs everyone else? No fanboy crap here, just your comment really was at odds from what I've read and sparked my curiosity.

@Kefka2589 ok thanks.

Anyone else waiting for the console launches so that the news can hopefully be something other that fan boy click bait articles (pure Xbox your excluded)? I made my choice and I'm good with it so all these crazy comparisons of the most minute things is getting annoying. Twitter is just filled with trash...just give my box so i can play games. I got myself a controller clip so I can xcloud some games at lunch vs delving into the social media sh@$& show

@Krzzystuff I'm not personally familiar with either dev kit, so I'm going on a bit of what I can glean from what's available, interviews, and a couple of devs on Push Square who, despite being PS fans, are legit (albeit anonymous) grizzled industry vets with a combined mix of hands-on training/knowledge and what they're hearing from colleagues working more closely with it within their AAA studios. They're not the "rabid fanboy" types - they're providing interesting insight on what they're seeing, hearing and experiencing in their organizations and contacts, and filtering it through professional experience while also being somewhat in the dark like the rest of us as to how it will all shake out by the end of the gen.

It's impossible to say what problems a particular developer may be having with a particular existing engine, though that could hold it back. The overall industry buzz from developers seems to revolve around preferring Sony's toolset for ease of use and that it automates taking advantage of the hardware's strengths more than MS's require less time spent optimzing. I've never looked at dev kits for either console, but just knowing that DirectX has always been a nasty mess in every conceivable way, I don't find that too unlikely a suggestion

@Kefka2589 looks like you will have a lot of realestate on your media unit gone come November with two new consoles. I'm curious how the PS5 controller feels in hand with its rumble tech, was really interested in that when I was thinking of getting a PS5.

@NEStalgia thanks for the clarification. I stopped reading most comments on push square (visit it seldomly now) but did find a few had actually decent posts on the past. I imagine these are the guys you're talking about.

@Krzzystuff Not Kefka. Obviously. But we're just mounting our two Series Xs to our entertainment center. Won't take up a single bit of space inside.

@InterceptorAlpha I'm still undecided where it's going. Upstairs in the main room most likely because that way if the wife is crafting in the basement with the laptop i can play and if i need to play in the basement I'll use the laptop... however in the basement i have a 4K60 TV... upstairs is a 60" 10 year old plasma that is definitely not 4K60...sooo do i just move the XSX around as needed but make 4K60 my primary place?

@Krzzystuff we have our two 55"s side by side in the loving room. Mine is a 4K HDR I bought for the One X and my PC. Her's is still a a 1080p SDR screen.

Based off my experience I'd never run my One X on a non 4K HDR screen unless I'd absolutely have to.

Using that as a metric, I feel like anything less would be a wast of the Series X.

@NEStalgia The Series X/S developers (third party included) say that it's very easy to develop and optimise games for Series X/S so both "sides" are saying the same things... I say let's wait for multiplatform games to be released and see what platform provides the best resolution, frame rate, effects, etc. Assassin's Creed Valhalla is less than a month away.