Digital Foundry-redaktør siger at en PC tilsvarende en PS5 Pro vil koste "en del mere"

Der er mange der er utilfredse med PS5 Pros pris kontra det lovede "spec bump", og i den forbindelse er der nogle der påstår at det faktisk er billigere, eller bare generelt bedre, at bygge en PC for nogenlunde samme penge. Men det er ikke synderligt realistisk, mener Digital Foundry-redaktøren Richard Leadbetter.

I et interview med IGN siger Leadbetter, at den tilsvarende GPU ville være et RTX 4070 fra Nvidia, eftersom PS5 Pro kan tilbyde Ray Tracing, som ingen AMD GPU på nuværende tidspunkt kan, og det gør at det ville være langt dyrere at bygge en PC tilsvarende PS5 Pros ydeevne:

"Probably a fair bit more. I mean, for the GPU you're going to need, if you consider the holistic view of all of the different components, the enhanced ray tracing (no AMD GPU has that at the moment), the machine learning block (no AMD GPU has that), it's almost like essentially an NVIDIA style feature set but made by AMD, and the closest equivalent GPU you'll be looking at would be the RTX 4070. The RTX 4060 is quite close to the base PlayStation 5 (factoring out machine learning and ray tracing), so you're looking at a 4070. I looked on Amazon yesterday and the cheapest one of those is $540. Beyond that, you've got to get a CPU, a motherboard, memory, power supply, case, and 2 TB SSD, so the costs are going to ramp up. Then you have your mitigating factors, which is that you aren't paying however many dollars per year for the glorious honor of being able to play online and have cloud saves, so you've got to kind of amortize costs over the year to get a proper idea of what the actual comparison is. I do think maybe though we might be slightly missing the point because if you consider what the PS5 Pro is, it's a machine that's designed - I don't think it's for new owners, it's for people that have got a PlayStation 5 but they've got the disposable income to have a better PlayStation 5, and I think that these guys are going to have an existing library of PS4 and PS5 titles and to make the jump out of the PlayStation ecosystem and into the PC ecosystem then you've got to leave those titles behind your entire library that you might have amassed over, like, 10 years."

Det korte og det lange er at det synes at være et ujævnt sammenligningsgrundlag, men derfor er der stadig mange der mener at PS5 Pro er for dyr.

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