PS5 vs PC

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EdT

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5,152 posts

297 months

I like a bit of VR racing. How come I fail to get my £1500+ PC (and Assetto Corso, Austomobilsta 2) to look anything like as good at GT7 on my relatively cheap PS5. Spent hours ttting around with settings, half tempted to sell the thing right now.

Mastodon2

13,998 posts

178 months

Consoles tend to outperform for their price compared to PCs. PS5 will probably be upscaling the resolution to try and hold a stable 60fps. GT7 is a first party Sony game, so it will be as optimised for PS hardware as anything and should naturally look pretty good.

What settings are you using on PC? On top of that, a £1500 PC is pretty low end, so you can't expect the earth.

When measuring price for performance, consoles will always beat PCs. For ultimate performance when budget is not a concern, PCs will win.

mmm-five

11,666 posts

297 months

Because you have a lower-end gaming PC (that has to do lots of stuff as well as gaming) vs an expensive gaming console (which is capped at 120 FPS and has been optimised for gaming with lower quality image scaling).


EdT

Original Poster:

5,152 posts

297 months

Mastodon2 said:
Consoles tend to outperform for their price compared to PCs. PS5 will probably be upscaling the resolution to try and hold a stable 60fps. GT7 is a first party Sony game, so it will be as optimised for PS hardware as anything and should naturally look pretty good.

What settings are you using on PC? On top of that, a £1500 PC is pretty low end, so you can't expect the earth.

When measuring price for performance, consoles will always beat PCs. For ultimate performance when budget is not a concern, PCs will win.
It's i9, water cooled, and an RTX2080TI. Settings.. I generally start with 'High' to keep FPS high. It all looks a bit 'rough' especially distant trees, fences. And the shadows on the track are terrible. I've messed around with all the anti-aliasing types settings, over scaling etc. Bit bored of trying now as often need to quit the app & restart to see if anything changes. Bit of a faff with a headset on.

EdT

Original Poster:

5,152 posts

297 months

I should say it was £1500 using 1-2 year old components, built together by a really good PC builder. New, would have been a chunk more ££

MikeM6

5,457 posts

115 months

Crazy that £1500 is 'low end' for a pc, it's almost cheaper to buy a track car haha.

Speckle

3,497 posts

229 months

You haven't mentioned the VR headset you're using on PC, could that be a factor.

RTX2080 is 3 generations old now, I suspect this is where your bottleneck is I always had to compromise the graphics for framerate with my RTX2080. I retired mine last year and upgraded to a PC running an RTX4080 and the difference is significant.

EdT

Original Poster:

5,152 posts

297 months

Speckle said:
You haven't mentioned the VR headset you're using on PC, could that be a factor.

RTX2080 is 3 generations old now, I suspect this is where your bottleneck is I always had to compromise the graphics for framerate with my RTX2080. I retired mine last year and upgraded to a PC running an RTX4080 and the difference is significant.
I stuck with the 2080Ti as it has USB-C - and I connect the PSVR2 headset with this, as it's the best headset I've had. Nice OLED colours smile

Greedydog

944 posts

208 months

To begin with you’re comparing a Sony 1st party game with games developed by very much smaller independent developers. From a sim POV I think the PC titles are more ‘simy’. Additionally GT7 is optimised for PS5, the others have to cater for a vast array of PC specs. Performance wise a PS5 is roughly equivalent to a 2060-2080 (depending on who you believe and the particular game) but there are a host of other factors here including, as mentioned above, the VR headset. So it’s apples to oranges.

Motorman74

465 posts

34 months

EdT said:
Speckle said:
You haven't mentioned the VR headset you're using on PC, could that be a factor.

RTX2080 is 3 generations old now, I suspect this is where your bottleneck is I always had to compromise the graphics for framerate with my RTX2080. I retired mine last year and upgraded to a PC running an RTX4080 and the difference is significant.
I stuck with the 2080Ti as it has USB-C - and I connect the PSVR2 headset with this, as it's the best headset I've had. Nice OLED colours smile
You can get a better video card and a PSVR PC adapter - I use one and it does a great job. The 2080ti is more powerful than the PS5s GPU for sure, but as has been said before, GT7 is extremely well optimised for the platform it is on.

geeks

10,216 posts

152 months

Tried Prject Cars at all? I haven’t used my oculus for a while but I do know that PC2 looked much better in VR than AC. Don’t forget as much as it is loved AC is over 10 years old

EdT

Original Poster:

5,152 posts

297 months

geeks said:
Tried Prject Cars at all? I haven’t used my oculus for a while but I do know that PC2 looked much better in VR than AC. Don’t forget as much as it is loved AC is over 10 years old
I did try Project Cars 3 - didnt like it much