And if you already have a current gen console vs your typical WoW machine (~quad core it/GTX 1060) you’re going to have a much better experience on the console.
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At least in WoW Raytracing perf is impacted by CPU.
Cyberpunk looks similar to the Witcher 3 launch: terrible optimizations at start, then gets better performance over time. Supposedly DRM is on in the press version of the game. We’ll see how much of an impact that has without it.
where do you see the 7700k gets bottlenecked in that game?
maybe in theoretical benchmarks but in launching games both consoles are as fast as a SATA SSD because both consoles lack CPU performance. They may have eight real cores but the cores are slow in frequency and gimped in cache. The PCIe 4.0 pipeline may be huge but somebody has to move that info and that someone is rather slow.
You can’t compare the two. One is a gaming console built for gaming while the other is a personal computer that is also built to game. Both the xbox and PS5 come with inefficient 350w power supply. Even a “bottom-of-the-barrel” gaming PSU like the evga 500w BR for $50 is better than that. Neither have the upgrade abilities of even a basic mATX mobos. So the entire question can be turned on its head to say how much would a PS5 cost if it was made to offer all the features of a personal gaming computer?
Is that really a hard bottleneck though? I don’t know much about Series X, but PS5 is having games designed specifically around its ability to load huge amounts of data into memory ridiculously quickly, skipping loading screens altogether in many cases. Seems like it’d mainly be a limitation seen only in halfassed ports?
Yeah that’s fair, but it depends on if the computer’s extra functionality will ever be used. A lot of people have little use for a computer beyond games, especially with the advent of smartphones and tablets. Some may consider it a waste if the computer’s just sitting there when it’s not being used for games.
Same goes for upgrades. If I had a dime for all the people I’ve known who’ve bought PCs with upgradability in mind and never upgraded them…
As for bottom of the barrel PSUs… a cheap EVGA 500W isn’t quite bottom of the barrel. I’ve seen people post build lists using the same unbranded firetrap crap you’d find in a budget iBuyPower machine because they don’t realize that the PSU is as critical as it is.
Personally I keep both a decent PC and a current gen console around because they both have their merits.
Can’t wait for the Digital Foundry teardown
A lot of people were going to get a PS5 or Xbox Series S/X anyway, so I think the question of the original OP was what to buy it on? Not what console/platform to buy to paly it. I think.
More people have a use for a computer outside of gaming than do for gaming, it’s not even close.
That’s a “them” problem, always have a plan for your build or you waste money.
That’s exactly my point “they both have their merits”
Also a “them” problem but believe it or not the entry PSU for ibupower is 600w gold thermaltake smart series PSU that costs more than the evga 500w I mentioned.
I might be mixing up oddly named prebuilt vendors then, because at least one was known for slipping in noname PSUs at one point. Maybe it was CyperPowerPC? I’m not sure.
A lot of people could be easily served by a chrome book + a console, though. I’m not one of those people, but I can’t deny the legitimacy of that setup for others.
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cyberpower uses a 600w gold unit from highpower I believe (off the top of my head) as their entry level unit. Both ibuypwer & cyberpower have “improved” in their PSU offering but so has the industry as whole in their offerings. Regardless, all of the mentioned PSU are more efficient than a console PSU and offer more power.
FYI, both companies are literally across the street from one another.
Neither. Get it on Stadia and play at work and home.
This
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This includes Denuvo though. Launch day will have drivers and Denuvo free from GoG.
Do we know if the steam version will have drm
I don’t see any details of it on Steam. Maybe not.
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That’s just a link to Toms GPU test which CD Projekt Ref made them pull since they didn’t use a final version of the game to test on. They also didn’t test any CPU besides the 9900k test CPU so still not sure how you came to your conclusion on the 7700k.
They use 9900K with disabled cores to simulate 7700K. 4 core with HT bottlenecking.
Like I said, launch day will have drivers and Denuvo free.
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They did a simulated 7700k test, iirc
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It’s really up to you, but if you have both and the PC specs are better than the console, I would surely go for that. Personally I prefer most games on mouse/keyboard so that’s what I go for.