{"id":122841,"date":"2017-12-29T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122841"},"modified":"2017-12-29T09:21:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:21:09","slug":"playstation-4-pro-vs-gtx-1060-gaming-pc-south-african-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122841-playstation-4-pro-vs-gtx-1060-gaming-pc-south-african-prices","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 4 Pro vs GTX 1060 gaming PC \u2014 South African prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony\u2019s PlayStation 4 Pro boasts impressive performance for its price, packing support for upscaled 4K gaming and native 4K video streaming.<\/p>\n

While games and multiplayer services are cheaper on PC, the PlayStation 4 Pro\u2019s price makes it an attractive buy for local gamers.<\/p>\n

To see what you get for your money, we compared the specifications and pricing of the PlayStation 4 Pro with an equally-powerful gaming PC.<\/p>\n

PS4 Pro<\/h3>\n

The most important component involved in this comparison is the graphics processor.<\/p>\n

The PlayStation 4 Pro shares 8GB of GDDR5 VRAM across its CPU and GPU, and boasts 4.2TFLOPS of processing power.<\/p>\n

The specifications of the PlayStation 4 Pro are below.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
PlayStation 4 Pro<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Processor<\/strong><\/td>\n8-core AMD Jaguar CPU @ 2.13GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graphics<\/strong><\/td>\n4.2TFLOPS AMD Polaris GPU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/strong><\/td>\n8GB GDDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Bandwidth<\/strong><\/td>\n217GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Storage<\/strong><\/td>\n1TB HDD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I\/O<\/strong><\/td>\n1x HDMI, 3x USB 3.1 Gen 1, 1x S\/PDIF, 1x Ethernet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Connectivity<\/strong><\/td>\nBluetooth, Wi-Fi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price<\/strong><\/td>\nR6,999 (Dec Special \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>R5,999<\/a>)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

PC build<\/h3>\n

For the comparative PC build, we used Nvidia\u2019s GeForce GTX 1060 3GB as the GPU to take on the PlayStation 4 Pro\u2019s chip.<\/p>\n

It is nearest to the PS4 Pro\u2019s peak performance range, and is much cheaper than similar AMD Polaris graphics cards \u2013 which are popular among crypto miners.<\/p>\n

Other components included an array of budget parts and an Intel 7th-gen CPU.<\/p>\n

The PlayStation-equivalent PC, along with its South African pricing, is detailed below.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Component<\/th>\nPrice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Intel Pentium G4560<\/td>\nR982<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ASUS H110M-K Motherboard<\/td>\nR991<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR4<\/td>\nR1,688<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Palit GeForce GTX 1060 3GB StormX<\/td>\nR3,399<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seagate BarraCuda 1TB Hard Drive<\/td>\nR795<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raidmax 500W PSU<\/td>\nR471<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raidmax Vortex V4 Chassis<\/td>\nR501<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price<\/strong><\/td>\nR8,827<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The cheapest PlayStation 4 Pro-equivalent gaming PC remains more expensive than the console, but not by a substantial margin.<\/p>\n

It must be noted that gaming PCs do not require a monthly subscription for online gaming and usually feature cheaper games.<\/p>\n

The PlayStation 4, however, offers a more \u201clounge-friendly\u201d gaming and media solution, thanks to its sleek design and 4K HDR capabilities.<\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0<\/strong>Showmax launched on PlayStation 4<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony\u2019s PlayStation 4 Pro boasts impressive performance for its price, packing support for upscaled 4K gaming and native 4K video streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681],"tags":[22617,71],"class_list":["post-122841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-playstation-4-pro-ps4-pro","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122843,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122841\/revisions\/122843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}