Sony can buy components for a lot less than we can and afford to treat the PS5 as a loss leader… damn those economies of scale. That does go to show the level of buying power Sony has with the amount of sales it can guarantee with a new console.
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What would’ve been a $600 PC build a year ago, which is already over the budget we’ve set, now surpasses $850, with fewer cores than the PS5, no (pointless) optical disk drive, and the absence of the best PC controller – even if we’d prefer the best gaming mouse and best gaming keyboard instead.
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The 20 series isn’t particularly known for its value, either, and is also suffering from stock issues.
Nvidia did manage to shock us with the value of its 30 series cards compared to previous generations, but with the RTX 3060 Ti currently guarding the gates to enter at $400, this is similarly not an option. If you manage to find one in stock and on shelves, most are instead eye-wateringly inflated. The Great Graphics Card Shortage of 2020, as it shall be known henceforth, has made it a battle to get your hands on a new GPU at retail price. This means no gen-on-gen performance uplift or ray tracing capabilities if we stick with AMD, but the bad news doesn’t end there. No, it sits at more than double that currently, meaning we’re not shaving as much cash as we’d hoped and getting a PS5-equivalent GPU is tough enough without this hiccup.Īs we mentioned earlier, getting a new AMD graphics card costs more than our entire budget. The six-core, 12-thread Rywould still give you equivalent gaming performance because of its higher clock speed, but once again, it hasn’t dropped to $100 like the 2600 before it. The PS5 might be monstrously big compared to other consoles, but its chassis is still small compared to a PC and the CPU needs to be happy chilling inside more thermally constrained environs. Of course, this would be an overkill CPU in comparison with the PS5, which has the same essential core configuration but necessarily runs at a lower clock speed (3.5GHz). Instead of the eight-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 3700X dropping to the same $190 price tag of the Ryzen 7 2700X, the former sits at $330 much like it did a year ago. In fact, most have seen their prices skyrocket due to the increase in demand this year leaving shelves empty. Sadly, AMD’s 3000 series hasn’t exactly seen the discounts we’d hoped after being dethroned by faster Zen 3 design. So, we can forget that… we’re going to need both the best graphics card and best gaming CPU to match the PS5. There’s also the fact that the graphics architecture is only going to have a scant few Navi features, with the actual chip being more closely linked to Vega. And that will barely net you the same sort of GPU performance as the 10-year-old PS4. Sadly, even though the Ryzen 4000-series APUs will feature more compute units in their GPU components than in previous generations, that’s still likely to be limited to around 8 CUs. So, how do we get close to the PS5’s tech spec on PC, and stick to a budget? The closest you’ll be able to get in terms of a straight-up system-on-a-chip (SoC), like that which is going to feature in one form or another in both the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, will be the Ryzen 4000 Zen 2-based APUs.
Sony uses a custom flash controller on a 825GB drive to reach up to 5.5GB/s bandwidth on its miraculous custom SSD, so we’ll have our work cut out trying to match it exactly. The PS5 is also rocking an SSD for the first time in a console, which initially led to some excitable statements about it offering “ raw bandwidth higher than any SSD available for PCs.” To be fair, that claim was made before the Ryzen 3000 chips launched with a platform capable of running PCIe 4.0 solid state drives, so it’s likely not a claim it can make anymore. The PS5 will be rocking a 36 CU GPU with a variable frequency up to 2.23GHz – a touch more than the Radeon 5000 cards. The Navi-powered RX 5700, with its 36 compute units, comes in at a shade under 8TFLOPS at its boost frequency, while the RX 5700 XT, with 40 CUs, offers 8.2TFLOPs at its base clock speed. Much like the Radeon RX 6000 series, the PS5’s custom RDNA 2-based GPU houses 16GB of GDDR6, with all new memory architecture for XTREME BANDWIDTHZ. Paired with that is a GPU part that sports the RDNA 2 GPU architecture, offering real-time ray tracing support based in the hardware and a heap more optimisations to push it above and beyond the RX 5700 XT. The PS5 comes with an eight-core CPU rocking last-gen’s AMD Zen 2 processor architecture, the same as you’ll find in the Ryzen 7 3700X.