First disclaimer. I run a 4090 in my P.C. My reply to the headline:
Yet it is not going to be playing many games any time soon that look remarkably better…
Higher frame rate? Absolutely. However it is a reality that the MASSIVELY higher powered P.C. hardware is ultimately utilized to play (pretty much) the same games as the consoles but with technically better ray tracing that many would be hard to see (and I DO LOVE path tracing – don’t get me wrong, I would love everything to have it) and still when compared to the PS5 Pro that often runs fidelity mode at 60fps, with the PC, we can get even higher. So yes, it outperforms it, but other than a higher frame rate (compared to what is generally already solid on the PS5 Pro), the games’ looks do not generally come anywhere close to reflecting the wild power divide between my PC and my PS5 Pro. Again, same games (mostly), and other than frame rates *above* 60, mostly look very similar unless one knows what to look for and even then, I can get really excited about the processing power required to do a certain thing, while acknowledging that the actual appearance is NOT that different from a purely practical perspective. We are very much at “diminishing returns” in the first place, but because games are not designed to only be playable on the highest end P.C. hardware, those capabilities are not really demonstrated as they could be and so the biggest difference typically remains the ability to run a VERY high frame rate vs. what most would still consider a good frame rate with the PS5 Pro. Nevemind the fact that developing for only the highest end P.C. components will not happen because only a minuscule percentage of P.C. users have that hardware in the first place.
#stick #game #anymore
