The enhanced bloom on Xbox One X has a bigger impact. On PC, this is just an on/off toggle, and to be honest it doesn't radically affect the look of the game in Diablo's dark dungeons - only in brighter exterior scenes.
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Screen-space ambient occlusion is the main one, and a comparison between Xbox One X and PS4 Pro shows a similar shading effect in the corners of the room. In terms of its visual feature set, Xbox One X is enhanced over the regular Xbox One edition, and ultimately it's a match for PlayStation 4 Pro's features. By comparison, PS4 Pro rarely even hits this top resolution number, and it's here the power divide between the two is most evident.īut there's more. It's the most consistent number, and anything under that is a deviation from the norm. But as a demonstration of where the two consoles stand next to each other, Microsoft's machine clearly uses 3840x2160 as a baseline.
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Of course the intensity of effects-work will only ramp up further during Nephalem Rift missions with high-level players and it's likely Xbox One X can be pushed harder, increasing the chances of a dip below ultra HD resolution. Ironically, it's only that New Tristram gate area - a point within minutes of starting a new game - that really made the hardware struggle in our tests.
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Even battling a screen full of enemies in multiplayer co-op, Xbox One sticks far more doggedly to its native 4K target. You can see where we're going here - regardless of the snapshots we take, the dynamic resolution scaler works out firmly in favour of the new console, whether it's in basic traversal or pushing the engine harder. Here's our visual breakdown for Diablo 3, compared on PS4 Pro and the new Xbox One X. And it's especially interesting because both machines are dropping from the target 4K, which in turn suggests that both are running their GPUs flat-out, at full utilisation.
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In fact, remarkably, the resolution differential is now a 2x improvement in favour of Xbox One X, a measurement at odds with the raw improvement in rendering power the hardware specs suggest - but confirmed in gameplay nonetheless. It's a 10 per cent drop in pixels for the new machine, but it still compares well to the 2560x1440 on PS4 Pro in this spot. Here, we're faced with our first taxing area at the gates, filled with enemies, physics-based objects and geometry, forcing Xbox One X to makes a rare slip below 4K - down to 3648x2052. Things start to change as we head towards New Tristram's gates, and the resolution adapts on both sides. In like-for-like situations, that's a 77 per cent increase in resolution in favour of the Microsoft console, before even touching a button. To put some hard figures to this, overlooking New Tristram right at the start with a new character, sees Xbox One X delivering 3840x2160 - the full 4K experience - while PS4 Pro kicks off at 2880x1620. But in practice, Sony's machine tends to run at lower numbers in the town itself - while Xbox One X hits 4K almost perfectly throughout. In PS4 Pro's case, a full 3840x2160 is only hit around interior areas, like the bar at New Tristram, or small dungeons.
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What's clear is that as good an upgrade as the PS4 Pro version is, Xbox One X goes one better, with a much closer lock on the target 4K resolution.
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But the question is, just how close are the two versions? And to what extent does Xbox One X's higher spec translate into a closer lock to a native 4K? And just like the PS4 Pro version, Xbox One X benefits from a smattering of visual enhancements too. The same principles are in place: the game targets a native 2160p presentation, but utilises a dynamic scaler to lock to the target 60 frames per second, adjusting the pixel count on the fly to ensure consistent performance. Cited as an example of ultra HD gaming on Microsoft's list of Xbox One X enhanced titles, Diablo 3 is an evolution of Blizzard's good work on the PlayStation 4 Pro version of the game.