• @Goo_bubbs
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    78 months ago

    Computers aren’t cheaper though. Hell, you can barely even get a decent GPU for the price of an entire console.

    • @Specal@lemmy.world
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      28 months ago

      But I don’t need to buy an entire pc “every generation” I can just buy a new GPU, and a low tier XX60 series or equivalent is always going to be faster than a console.

      • unhappy_grapefruit 2
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        28 months ago

        Yep exactly this I’m using an i7 3770 and 10gb ddr3 In my own rig I intend on buying a rx 560 for it as an upgrade for my current gpu

      • @Cort@lemmy.world
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        28 months ago

        Except the year the new console is released since they’re being sold at a loss, assuming they’ll make up the difference in game sales.

    • unhappy_grapefruit 2
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      8 months ago

      Depends an rtx 2060 costs around £120 nowadays pair this with a cheap sandy bridge ivy bridge quadcore 8gb of ram or 16 if your feeling fancy and a 256gb ssd and 1tb hdd and you got yourself a decent computer

      • @Specal@lemmy.world
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        28 months ago

        Pair a RTX2060 with a 5800X3D and you have a gaming system that no console can compete with for the same price

        • @Goo_bubbs
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          8 months ago

          Not really. An RTX 2060 only has 6GB of VRAM. A PS5 has 16GB of unified memory, so it’s going to potentially have more VRAM to work with.

          A 2060 isn’t awful, though. That’s what I’ve got in my nearly 4 year old laptop. It can run pretty much everything, although some of the newer games are probably a little too demanding for it to run on the best settings.

          • @Specal@lemmy.world
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            08 months ago

            You could have a petabyte of VRam it won’t make up for the fact that consoles have to use less powerful chips due to their form factor and can’t cool appropriately.

            • @Goo_bubbs
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              8 months ago

              It’s straight up dumb to make the argument that an Nvidia RTX 2060 is more capable than the custom GPU in a PS5.