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Previous to this new generation of consoles, most modern consoles have shipped with much slower hard drives since the original https://bit.ly/2Vf72ny in 2001. SSDs are essentially much faster than traditional hard drives at loading data. So we thought we’d compare the loading speeds of last generation’s https://bit.ly/2Vf72nyes to the now current generation.
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A little context: All of the times below were from loading a saved game from their respective campaigns, except for Doom Eternal. Those times were from starting a brand-new campaign. Also, as you’ll see, the Series S loads slightly slower than the Series X, despite the fact that they have the exact same SSDs inside. This most likely has to do with the fact that the Series X’s CPU — which contributes in decompressing data — is slightly faster than the Series S’s.
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| https://bit.ly/2Vf72ny Series X | https://bit.ly/2Vf72ny Series S | https://bit.ly/2Vf72ny One X | https://bit.ly/2Vf72ny One | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COD: Black Ops Cold War | 13 seconds | 13 seconds | 51 seconds | 74 seconds |
| Assassin’s Creed Valhalla | 23 seconds | 25 seconds | 54 seconds | 62 seconds |
| Doom Eternal | 6 seconds | 6 seconds | 23 seconds | 25 seconds |
| Divinity 2: Original Sin | 17 seconds | 23 seconds | 46 seconds | 75 seconds |
| Watchdogs Legion | 24 seconds | 25 seconds | 67 seconds | 68 seconds |
