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Why Baldur’s Gate III is an accidental PS5 console exclusive (www.engadget.com)
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Larian is having trouble fitting Baldur’s Gate III on the Xbox Series S, the lower-priced and lower-powered console in Microsoft’s ninth-generation lineup.

I was looking up more information on why there’s such an issue getting BG3 on Xbox, and found this article with a lot more detail on the topic.

EDIT: The issue isn’t graphics or frame rate; it’s memory. The article goes into detail.

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[–] 15 points 3 years ago

RAM is the big bottle neck here.

Here's the comparison:

PS5: 16 GB/256-bit GDDR6 SDRAM
512 MB DDR4 RAM

Series X: 10 GB/320-bit & 6 GB/192-bit (16 GB total)

Series S: 8 GB/128-bit & 2 GB/32-bit (10 GB total)

But more than that, it's the speeds involved:

PS5 Peak Bandwidth 448 GB/s
Xbox Series X 10 GB 560 GB/s and 6 GB 336 GB/s
Xbox Series S 8 GB 224 GB/s and 2 GB with 56 GB/s

So not just less RAM, but at 1/2 the speed.

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