GeForce RTX vs. Consoles: NVIDIA's Statement and Cost

At the recently held GTC China 2019 conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang showed the audience an incredibly interesting and captivating slide:

Besides the obvious and rather sensible comparison of Lenovo Y900 laptops with a GeForce GTX 980M graphics card and the Lenovo Y740, equipped with a GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q, it also featured another inscription: RTX 2080 > Next Gen Console.

In short, NVIDIA claims that the mobile (or desktop – it's not entirely clear here, but it doesn't really matter) GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card is faster than the GPU installed in next-gen consoles. And there's nothing surprising about that. It's easy to believe this even without testing and further data verification. However, the venerable Jensen Huang overlooks the price of the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q, and more importantly, the surrounding components.

For example, the Lenovo Y740 laptop chosen by NVIDIA for comparison, which features the RTX 2080 Max-Q, costs slightly over $2000. Meanwhile, while the new generation of consoles is rumored to be much more expensive than current models, it's unlikely to cross the reasonable $600 threshold.

According to currently available information, the PS5 and Xbox Series X GPUs will be comparable in performance, or even slightly superior, to the Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card, which in turn is roughly equivalent to the GeForce RTX 2070. The GeForce RTX 2080 itself is 10 to 20% faster than the RTX 2070, depending on the game or task.

Following this logic, even if the RTX 2080 proves to be slightly faster than the GPUs in next-gen consoles, it would still be hard to call it a worthwhile purchase from a price/performance standpoint.

It seems this promotional slide was aimed more at the company's investors and shareholders than at potential NVIDIA consumers. What do you think?

Source: WccfTech

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