At the recently held GTC China 2019 conference, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed the audience an extremely interesting and entertaining slide:
On it, in addition to the obvious and very sensible comparison of Lenovo Y900 laptops with a GeForce GTX 980M graphics card and Lenovo Y740 equipped with a GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card, there was another inscription: RTX 2080> Next Gen Console.
In short, NVIDIA claims that the mobile (or desktop, here it is not completely clear, but it does not really matter) the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q video card is faster than the GPU installed in the next-generation consoles. And there is nothing surprising here. This can be easily believed even without testing and subsequent verification of the data. However, the highly respected Jen-Hsun Huang forgets the price of the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q, and more importantly, the components that surround it.
For example, the Lenovo Y740 laptop chosen for comparison by NVIDIA itself, carrying the RTX 2080 Max-Q on board, costs a little more than $2,000. While the new generation of consoles, although rumored to be much more expensive than the current one, is unlikely to step over the reasonable $600 mark.
According to the information available at the moment, the graphics processor PS5 and Xbox Series X in terms of performance will be comparable, or even slightly higher than that of the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which, in turn, is approximately equal to the GeForce RTX 2070. The GeForce RTX 2080 itself is faster than RTX 2070 by 10 to 20%, depending on the game or task.
Following this logic, even if the RTX 2080 turns out to be slightly faster than the GPU, which will be endowed with the next generation consoles, it will still be difficult to call it a bargain in terms of price/performance.
One gets the impression that this promotional slide was aimed more at the investors and shareholders of the company than at potential consumers of NVIDIA products. And what do you think?
Source: WccfTech
