Nvidia: GeForce RTX 2080 More Powerful Than PS5 and Xbox Series X

Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, made it clear at GTC China 2019 that the GeForce RTX 2080 is more efficient than the chipset installed in next-gen consoles that will debut in late 2020.

According to Nvidia GeForce, the new consoles will not even match the performance of RTX 2080.

There is almost a year left before the launch of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. However, there is no shortage of various comparisons between the upcoming devices of Sony and Microsoft. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, presented aslide show, claiming that the GeForce RTX 2080 is more powerful than next-generation console chipsets. The comparison can be seen in the following video of the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) event taking place in China this year. The relevant fragment can bo found around 21:17 on the video.

One of the many purposes of the presentation was to present slim notebooks equipped with GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q, i.e. smaller, more energy-efficient and therefore not as powerful as the desktop equivalent of this graphics card (which is slightly better than RTX 2070). Nevertheless, Nvidia still thinks that its performance tops the next generation of consoles, whose specifications are still not final. And we would like to remind that Nvidia has a new generation of cards in their plans for 2020, which will bring another performance increase - you can read more about Ampere here. The consoles, in turn, are to have AMD Navi, faster than the recently released Radeon RX 5700 XT, but it is still too early for us to know the details.

Here's the captured slide arguing the RTX 2080 advantage over next-gen consoles.

The price is extremely important here. Presented by Jensen Huang, the Lenovo Y740 gaming laptop with GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card costs about $2,600. The desktop version of RTX 2080 is an expense that may exceed $750, and you still need to buy the rest of the components. The conclusions seem evident. It is therefore difficult to compare that to next-gen consoles, whose price, according to unofficial reports, should not exceed $499 or $599 for a version with a smaller SSD. There's not much to be said about the performance of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X either, as we won't know how they will work in reality until the end of 2020. "On paper" both look impressive for the time being, but their specifications may still change before the launch.