![]() Well, it would be more expensive, and the Xbox Series S (yes, Microsoft has awful naming conventions for their latest consoles - shocker, I know) is already being discounted to $249 this holiday season. What if Apple just stuck an M2 in the Apple TV… Perhaps not in everything, as those are tailored for gaming, but probably in many things. I’ve long wondered how tenable the gaming console market is given how fast mobile phones were improving and released on a yearly basis versus the consoles on five-ish year time horizons.² Presumably, the M2 chips found in Apple’s latest MacBooks and iPads can already compete with - if not beat - the chips found in the PS5 and Xbox Series X. The fact that the A15 can beat the PS5 - the current state of the art gaming console - in any metric is incredible and would seemingly point to where this is all heading… ![]() Still, it’s pretty impressive what Apple is able to squeeze into a sub-$200 puck. We are starting to get to a point where Xbox One and PS4 games should, in theory, be playable on Apple TV without too many compromises.Īgain, this is a comparison to the last generation of gaming consoles not the current one. On the other hand Apple TV 4K (2022) has much faster RAM and is equipped with a very fast NVMe SSD unlike the old-school hard drive in last-gen consoles. In terms of TFlops performance it still cannot match last-gen game consoles such as Xbox One and it has only half the amount of RAM (4GB vs. PS5’s CPU equivalent is AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and here is a benchmark comparison with A15.Īs for the GPU, Apple TV 4K (2022) on paper exceeds 1 TFlops of graphical performance but how much is a little unclear as there are no GPU info or benchmark apps available for tvOS. The A15’s CPU performance core is also significantly faster than PS5’s CPU core (single-core performance) but PS5 pulls ahead in multi-core performance because it has 8 cores as opposed to 5 cores in the Apple TV version of A15. The CPU in A15 Bionic is much, much faster than previous-generation game consoles such as Xbox One and PlayStation 4. In particular, there are some dots we can finally start connecting in gaming: I also recently got the new Apple TV and my review would have been something like: “it’s smaller, has no fan, the remote now has USB-C, and it’s maybe slightly faster, though it’s hard to tell in day-to-day use so far”.¹ But this review goes into far more detail about each of those things and gives more context about why the changes matter. In fact, it’s closer than ever and moving fast. But it’s also not as far as you might think. ![]() At least not compared to the current gaming consoles. As even this new, more powerful Apple TV is not there yet. The site FlatpanelsHD published a review of the new Apple TV 4K a couple weeks ago that is great not only in how thorough it is, but also in how it frames around the gaming potential of the device. ![]()
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