How much will the PC Gamer you need to keep up with the new consoles cost you?

The next generation of consoles, consisting of Xbox Series X and S, as well as the PS5, will finally live up to hardware modern and high-end. For this reason, now at PC Gamer Being at that level is a natural choice if you don’t want to be tied to these two brands, but what do you need? how much put it together?

This comparison makes more sense today than ever, because we already know so much about the new charts of AMD, the Series Radeon 6000and those of NVIDIA, the Series RTX 3000. With its prices and new architectures, you can give yourself a more concrete idea of ​​what will be in the video game industry for the next few years, but this is not the only thing we have to take into consideration, so let’s go by parts and in order of importance.

processor

Both consoles run on a custom AMD processor with architecture Zen 2 8 conductors, 16 wires 7nm. Its clock speed is 3.8 GHz and it will not have OC profiles, but it will slow down a bit when not in use while processing the game.

To emulate this, we have not only the Ryzen 7 3000 series, but also the Ryzen 7 5800, who will have them 3.8 GHz basic, with the possibility of overclocking up to 4.7 GHz, plus they are already made under the new Zen 3 architecture, which improves the entire level of processing with its new core arrangement, as well as having a fairly attractive price.

This piece is priced at $ 449 USD

GPU

Like the CPU, on both consoles there will be custom graphics powered by RDNA 2, AMD’s new graphics architecture, which was certainly made specifically for consoles, but which already has its emulation on PC GPUs with the new series. Radeon 6000. However, it is not necessary to use one of these new graphics to have the same performance as consoles, not even an RTX 3000 series.

The Xbox Series X has graphics with a power of 12 TFLOPS, while the PS5 is limited to 10. As for the new graphics from NVIDIA, the RTX 3080, the high-end standard, has 29.7 TFLOPS and Radeon 6800XT rises to 21. A world of difference.

To emulate it, only one RTX 3070 or Radeon 6700, but an RTX 2080 Ti is also sufficient, which with the introduction of the new graphics will have a significant price reduction and will be ideal for an assembly that tries to be at the height of the consoles. However, for practical purposes and not to tempt the market, we will go with a 3070, but remember that 2080 will be a better option as soon as 3070 and 6800 are available on the market.

This piece is priced at $ 499 USD

PSU

When it comes to energy sources, don’t play with them. Thinking of upgrading this assembly, in addition to the raw power it will have, a sufficient power source is required. Remember that you can save on many things, but never on your energy source. For this assembly we think of the Corsair RM 850 80+ Gold certified.

This piece is priced at $ 154 USD

Motherboard

This is one of the pieces we can always save on. Despite this, we will start with something that falls in the middle line. What we need, frankly, is simply that it can store 16GB of RAM, that it is compatible with our processor, and that it has PCI drives for M.2 storage and for our graphics card. Not anymore.

We will use a file for this assembly ASUS Prime B450 Plus. A modest but powerful motherboard. It’s a generation (almost two) ago, but the benefit of having AMD CPUs is that you can just update your BIOS and use next generation CPUs without worrying more.

This piece is priced at $ 77 USD

RAM

Both consoles have only 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, which are easily accessible in any environment and which, in fact, are even today a standard for any PC Gamer, as many games use this resource more and more.

This decision is simple: two 8GB 3200MHz modules Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO, which are also the best performing with the Ryzen series of CPUs.

This piece is priced at $ 85 USD

storage

Storage is one of the strongest bets the two next-gen consoles have, at least as a publicity, where the PS5 has been rewarded with faster storage memory you need … well, to save you a second or two on screens start or load.

To be on a similar level, it is enough to have a 1 TB M.2 NVMe solid state drive, which will be a Kingston A2000.

This piece is priced at $ 119 USD

cabinet

To hold all these pieces with much better cooling than either console we will use a Corsair 750D, a simple but spacious cabinet with good upgrade and cable management capabilities.

This piece is priced at $ 159 USD

Total

This assembly, quite similar to what you can find inside the file PS5 and the Xbox Series X (for him Xbox Series S we should do another assembly) would have a total cost of $ 1,542 USD, which would be around $ 30,300 MXN, which is more than double that of either console.

Obviously the capabilities of this PC are much greater than what you can do with a video game console, plus the whole system is upgradeable and you won’t have to completely change it if the video game industry takes another leap. Furthermore, there are many parts that can be exchanged for others of lower price and similar performance, such as the PROCESSOR, which could also be a Ryzen 3800X, or a cheaper case, and of course a non-NVMe SSD, because it has no real impact on gaming performance.