I no longer game on PC (because I have no time) and because it's become a very expensive hobby.
With that in mind I traded in my launch PS5 for a pro and have been super happy during to 4-5hrs a week I get to play.
I did recently built my son a new PC from scratch, and even though I spent a lot of time shopping around and stuck to budget parts, it still ended up costing significantly more than a Pro, even at fill price.
Maybe here in Australia we pay a premium for parts (I haven't bothered doing any currency conversions to be sure) but I was pretty shocked with the total spend. Especially considering it was a very budget build.
I settled on a Ryzen 5 5600x, a low end Gigabyte motherboard, a 1tb NVME drive, 16gb DDR4, a 750watt PSU a RX9060xt 8gb, and a fractal case (the case being the only thing I splurged on) and it was not cheaper than a pro.
My son is over the moon, he plays Roblox and Minecraft at 180fps at native 1440p with heaps of headroom for some heavier Minecraft mods and shader packs. But if I had built it for myself to play AAA games, I think I would have been very disappointed regarding bang for buck.
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Re: Tested: the PC GPUs that match or exceed PS5 Pro graphics performance
I no longer game on PC (because I have no time) and because it's become a very expensive hobby.
With that in mind I traded in my launch PS5 for a pro and have been super happy during to 4-5hrs a week I get to play.
I did recently built my son a new PC from scratch, and even though I spent a lot of time shopping around and stuck to budget parts, it still ended up costing significantly more than a Pro, even at fill price.
Maybe here in Australia we pay a premium for parts (I haven't bothered doing any currency conversions to be sure) but I was pretty shocked with the total spend. Especially considering it was a very budget build.
I settled on a Ryzen 5 5600x, a low end Gigabyte motherboard, a 1tb NVME drive, 16gb DDR4, a 750watt PSU a RX9060xt 8gb, and a fractal case (the case being the only thing I splurged on) and it was not cheaper than a pro.
My son is over the moon, he plays Roblox and Minecraft at 180fps at native 1440p with heaps of headroom for some heavier Minecraft mods and shader packs. But if I had built it for myself to play AAA games, I think I would have been very disappointed regarding bang for buck.