| ArchangelMadzz said: High end PC's are. But most people's PC's aren't much better than the XBX. If at all. |
But they also don't need to be... Most peoples PC's aren't sinking all their performance trying to chase 4k... Thus they can dial-up the visual settings at 1080P/1440P instead to have an overall better image than the Xbox One X despite having a weaker GPU in their PC's.
I would always choose Ultra settings at 1440P than Medium quality settings at 4k like most Xbox One X games.
In saying that...
I calculated that 32.54% of PC's on the Steam hardware statistics have superior GPU performance to the Xbox One X. - I only calculated nVidia GPU's, I didn't calculate PC's with multiple GPU's and I didn't calculate every GPU on the list... I got about half way which was enough to provide a rough idea.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
https://www.anandtech.com/bench/
Steam itself has 90~ million monthly active users.
https://www.pcgamer.com/au/steam-now-has-90-million-monthly-users/
Which using the power of percentages would equate to 29~ or more million monthly Steam users having a PC superior to the Xbox One X.
But like I said... It also doesn't matter, PC gamers get to choose to sacrifice some resolution to increase visual quality anyway even with specs that fall behind the Xbox One X.
How many Xbox One X consoles are on the market? A couple million? Yeah. There are more PC's with specs that surpass the Xbox One X.
Sogreblute said:
Mid Tier PC's blow the XBX out of the water. If someone considers themselves to be a gamer and game on PC regularly buying the newer games, their PC is better than a console's. That's pretty much a given. The XBX is literally considered an entry level gaming PC. It's equivalent to a dual core CPU and a GTX 1060, which is about $400 - $450. The PS5 and Xbox Scarlet I know will be equivalent to mid tier PCs. |
It helps that the PC has vastly superior DRAM counts, faster storage, faster CPU's... Which means that the experience on PC tends to be a bit different than console.
The main selling point of the Xbox One X is that it has a semi-decent mid-range GPU (Although more low-end of the spectrum now that Navi and Turing are rolling out.)
But the games are still Xbox One games, they just look a bit prettier... And still a step behind what the PC offers.
| ArchangelMadzz said: And the vast majority of people that play games on steam etc have 'entry level' gaming PC's. 80% of steam users have quad core or lower. |
A modern entry-level Quad-core CPU from Intel or AMD beats the absolute snot out of an 8-core Jaguar... Remember AMD's Jaguar was AMD's cheapest, slowest and nastiest CPU at a time when AMD's CPU's were cheap, slow and absolutely terrible, keep that in perspective. - Those 8-core Jaguars would offer less performance than a modern dual-core CPU. - Not to mention... Not all 8-cores of those Jaguar CPU's can be used for gaming anyway.
A Geforce 1060 can match the Xbox One X's GPU, but the kicker is... That GPU doesn't spend all it's resources chasing 3840x2160 resolutions, so it can output overall better visuals.
Steam hardware statistics aren't perfect either, there are many PC's with multiple-GPU's that aren't accounted for.
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