Lysandros
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Besides the much less powerful decompressor XSX also doesn't have an entire I/O complex with two co-processors, ESRAM, cache scrubber informing coherency engines etc, within its APU like PS5. The I/O side is where the biggest difference in those machine lies, PS5 is much more hardware heavy on that front, no question about it.I didn't say that Xbox doesn't have HW decompression, but it's significantly less powerful than PS5's, which means some of that load will likely have to be borne by the CPU.
Both have HW decompression, but PS5 has 300% more powerful HW decompression, which keeps CPU mostly free.