

The resolution mode does give us a difference, though, with the PS5's 3264x1836 being 10% lower than the Series X's 3456x1944. It does deliver decent image quality on a 1080p screen, but on a 4K screen the relatively low pixel level is apparent – not all due to pixel counts alone, though. It tops and bottoms out at 1920x1080 with no signs of dynamic resolution scaling or DSR, but it is pushing this little 4 teraflop GPU hard, even at the 30fps Performance level. The lower-end Xbox Series S, which only has a single mode. Also, the settings menu has good options with fast, low, high, and RT settings or tweaks across key areas such as ambient occlusion, motion blur, particles and those ray tracing additions. Oddly, though, they are screen space on horizontal planes such as water surfaces but ray traced on vertical surfaces to enhance material reactions, even at the highest settings. The PC version improves on this with more refined ray-traced shadows – or at least more of them – but the improved reflections also help. Some indoor or outdoor settings show minimal improvement while others really add radiosity bounce from surface colours and illuminate covered areas with greater light than any direct source would deliver. The benefit of the ray-traced shadows is obvious in many areas but the GI bounce, which appears close or the same as high settings from the PC in Performance mode and Medium in the Quality mode, is mixed.
