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Xbox Series S loading times compared to Xbox Series X

Stevivor’s putting the Xbox Series S through its paces, testing its loading times in comparison to bigger brother, the Xbox Series X.

Both consoles sport an 1TB Custom NVME SSD that promises blistering speeds as well as other bonuses including Quick Resume. We’ve already tested a handful of Xbox One backwards compatible games across both Xbox One X and Xbox Series X, but this set of timings will be next-gen only. We’ve tried to use the same build of the game for each set of tests.

On the whole, the timings are almost identical across consoles, though Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice was ridiculously faster on Xbox Series S. Xbox head Phil Spencer said S loading times could be faster than X because of non-4K assets and the like.

The timings below begin with then seconds, then milliseconds.

 

Game Name Xbox Series S loading time Xbox Series X loading time
Alien Isolation 17:13 17:01
Avengers 24:59 18:38
Control 11:19 10:51
Destiny 2 42:30 39:03
Doom Eternal 06:52 05:13
Forza Horizon 3 12:30 10:33
Gears 4 33:48 25:01
Hellblade Senua’s
Sacrifice
06:59 26:53

 

The Xbox Series S & X head to store shelves on 10 November. Head here for our Xbox Series X Preview in progress.


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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

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