The weakening rand has had a big effect on South African gamers, with PC upgrades and console games becoming increasingly expensive.<\/p>\n
Due to steep local hardware prices, we thought we would compare the prices of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with a similarly-performing custom-built PC.<\/p>\n
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are beginning to show their age in the era of Pascal GPUs<\/a><\/strong> and VR headsets<\/a><\/strong>, with both consoles possibly getting new iterations\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n The hardware inside both consoles is no longer on the cutting-edge of gaming technology, but the relatively open design of the latest console generation allows users to compare specifications more easily.<\/p>\n In order to determine what hardware we should include in our console-killer build, we used the PlayStation 4’s specifications as a benchmark, as it has been clear for a while now that the PlayStation 4 has the most processing power<\/a><\/strong> out of the two devices.<\/p>\n The PlayStation 4 features a combined CPU and GPU with a Floating Point Performance of 1.84 TFLOPs<\/strong>. Single Rated Floating Point Performance\u00a0is an accurate measure of the peak computational power of a\u00a0device.<\/p>\n The PlayStation 4’s APU is based on a Radeon 7870 and features 1152 stream processors, sharing 8GB of GDDR5 unified memory<\/strong>\u00a0with the rest of the PS4 motherboard.<\/p>\n We’ve put together\u00a0the best parts on a budget\u00a0to build a PC more powerful than the PlayStation 4\u00a0while maintaining reliability.<\/p>\n It is important to note that while many pre-built “console-killers” are offered by various online stores, most do not compete with PlayStation 4 and offer performance comparable to the less powerful Xbox One.<\/p>\n Check out the specifications of our console-killer build compared to the PlayStation 4 below:<\/strong><\/p>\nPlayStation 4 console benchmark<\/h3>\n