Build A Gaming PC that Beats PS4 & Xbox One for Under $500

Wednesday 14 January 2015

Build A Gaming PC that Beats PS4 & Xbox One for Under $500

Want to know how to build a gaming PC that easily beats PS4 & Xbox One? Then here I have provided you all the details on building a much better gaming PC that costs under $500. I will try to keep myself short and would briefly compare all the vital PS4 components with their counter PC parts. However, I would not compare anything about Xbox One, the reason being that PS4 beats it down in almost every aspects. Hence, this whole article would feature the steps on how to build a PS4 like PC which easily beats the Sony's boastful PlayStation 4. I have also provided the direct best buy link for all the parts pertaining to the gaming PC which we are going to build. Now, let's build our budget gaming PC to defeat the PS4.


PS4 Graphics card stats and its Minimum PC Counter Part


A graphics card strength is calculated on the basis of its Pixel fill rate, Texture fill rate, Memory specs and the maximum theoretical peak performance (calculated in GFLOPS or TFLOPS) it can provide. Upon retrieving the PlayStation 4's technical specifications from the official sources, we were only able to gather the following details:
  • Stream Processors: 1152
  • Floating Point Performance: 1843 GFLOPS
  • Memory Clock: 1375 MHz (Hence, Data Rate: 1375 X 4 = 5500 MHz)
  • Memory Bandwidth: 176 GB/sec
  • Render Output Units (ROPs): 32
  • Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): 72
Now, for the accurate PS4 GPU strength predictions, we have to find out all the vital details like Core clock, Pixel fill rate, Texture fill rate and the Memory Interface Width. Let us first find out the Core clock speed of the PS4's GPU. For this, we know that the floating point performance (FLOPS) is calculated as: Stream Processors X 2 X Core clock. So, the Core clock speed will be: GFLOPS / (Stream Processors X 2). Putting all the details, we get Core clock speed of 0.799 GHZ ~ 800 MHZ. For calculating Pixel fill rate, we multiply ROPs with the Core clock speed and for Texture fill rate, we multiply TMUs with the Core clock speed. Hence, the exact Pixel fill rate is 25.6 GP/sec and Texture fill rate will be 57.6 GT/sec. Now let's move on to the complex part - calculation of Memory Interface Width. Memory Interface Width is calculated as: (Memory Bandwidth X 8)/Memory data rate (Taking Memory data rate in GHz and Bandwidth in GB/sec). Upon putting all the details, we get Memory Interface Width to be 256-bit.

So, the complete PS4 graphics card specifications would be:
  • GPU Core Clock: 800 MHz
  • Stream Processors: 1152
  • Floating Point Performance: 1843 GFLOPS
  • Memory Clock: 1375 MHz (Hence, Data Rate: 1375 X 4 = 5500 MHz)
  • Memory Interface Width: 256-bit
  • Memory Bandwidth: 176 GB/sec
  • Render Output Units (ROPs): 32
  • Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): 72
  • Pixel Fill Rate: 25.6 GP/sec
  • Texture Fill Rate: 57.6 GT/sec
Hence, the minimum PC Graphic card required to beat PS4's GPU is ATI Radeon R7 265 DUAL-X GDDR5 which is around 10% faster in performance.

Best Processor, RAM, PSU and Motherboard to beat PS4's Components


Sony's PlayStation 4 is powered by 2 Quad cores which runs on Jaguar architecture. But its 1.6 GHz clock is a deep pitfall, and to balance the overall performance, they used a fairly good GPU. According to me an AMD FX-6300 would be more than enough to beat it. Yeah I know its 6 cores Vs 8 Cores, but believe me AMD FX-6300 would be much faster than the PS4's 2 Quad cores. Hence, AMD FX-6300 is the best processor to beat the PS4's low clocked 8 Cores.

Sony PlayStation 4's CPU is coupled up with high-end 8 GB GDDR5 RAM. But you will do well with 2 X 4 GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3 RAM. Use Corsair CX 600 Watt 80 PLUS PSU for the proper power supply and to completely wipe off the chances of bottlenecking your custom build gaming PC. And Yes, don't forget to pair all this with MSI 760GM-P23 (FX) Motherboard. This motherboard can automatically detect the best overclocking settings and thus can greatly increase the overall performance. Moreover, AMD FX-6300 has unlocked cores which means that its 3.5 GHz clock can be overclocked up to 4.2 GHz. And you don't have to worry about doing so manually.

Oh! At last we successfully build up our best gaming PC which is far better than the Sony's PS4 and Microsoft's Xbox One, and still counts under $500.

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