Which Nvidia GPU Is Equivalent To The PlayStation 5? – BGR

When Sony released its PlayStation 5 in 2020, the video game console had big shoes to fill. The previous generation PlayStation 4 sold more than 117 million units, making it one of the best-selling consoles of all time, and it’s still worth buying in 2026. Like its predecessor, the PS5 was designed using a custom AMD GPU that isn’t a one-to-one copy of any retail GPU available on store shelves. Still, when comparing a PS5’s performance with Nvidia’s GPUs, it most closely matches an Nvidia RTX 3070. 

Nvidia’s RTX 3070 is a mid-range bracket GPU, similar to AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 in frame rates and other performance specs at 1440p. Those cards are also roughly equivalent to the RTX 3060 Ti, which is the Nvidia card that most closely matches against the Xbox Series X.

One selling point of the PS5 is gaming at 4K. Its GPU is built with 36 compute units running at a variable clock that peaks at 2.23 GHz, which works out to roughly 10.29 teraflops of raw compute. The PS5 GPU shares 16GB of…