 Alright everyone sit down and buckle up because we're about to go in one hell of a high-definition ride at 792p With its power loss protection affordability and performance the SP 920 from adata makes upgrading to an SSD Remarkably safe and simple. We're gonna try and quantify just how not next-gen the next-gen consoles are We're gonna do this by taking our test bench and figuring out exactly how much graphics horsepower is needed to deliver the Console grade experience in watchdogs versus how much raw power it would need to deliver a PC grade experience Basically high resolutions and much higher frame rates We know that our test bench is overkill and not really comparable to a console But we chose these parts in our experiment to remove potential bottlenecks and focus on our funky thought experiment in terms of GPU clock speeds An extremely important factor for gaming bear in mind that by removing these bottlenecks We're keeping the test as fair as possible And if anything our lower graphics configuration gets an advantage from the OPCPU and RAM But how do you remove as many variables as possible and bring everything down to GPU clock speed? Well by strapping a GTX 480 to it I chose a GTX 480 because of its ability to underclock and overclock quite well giving it a wide range of possible performance levels Things to note are that the Xbox one and PS4 while closer to typical PC architecture than any console generation before are still actually quite different We're also not covering power consumption and we're running everything on high settings all the time We expect the devs want that experience on any given platform as a baseline So changing it between runs which is add more variables And again, we're just focusing on GPU clock speed the lowest clock speed I could get on my GTX 480 was 405 and this allowed me to run the game at 792 P and about 32 to 33 FPS Yeah, I actually couldn't underclock my five-year-old GPU to be as slow as a next-gen console PC Master Race problems if we don't nerf our five-year-old GPU quite so hard We can get pretty easily to 1080p 30 FPS But 60 FPS is a completely different ballgame 1080p 60 FPS wasn't gonna happen on our poor old 480 But good old awkward 792 P was able to run at 60 FPS if I crank to this GPU clock speed up to 875 megahertz So yeah, it would be soft FPS and resolution are numbers and so is clock speed And those so-called next-gen consoles should have had a lot more of all three again guys. I can't stress enough These are very different architectures and we're only interested in seeing how much more raw power The GPU of a platform that can run at 792 P 30 FPS would need to run at 1080p 30 FPS and 792 P 60 FPS and it was interesting to see how borderline these next-gen consoles actually are because going from 792 P to 1080 P only required about 40% more raw power while doubling the FPS required more than double that raw power This is bad news for gamers who think they're gonna get 60 FPS beautifully rendered games this gen because they're not even close But this was just a cooking dirty thought experiment and while it does show a representation of the power needed to get these Consoles up to speed calling it a perfect representation of the competitive landscape Maybe a bit of a stretch also for the console guys There are things coming down the line like MS cloud for Xbox one and DirectX 12 for next-gen consoles in general That may help them. But after looking at the performance needed for them to catch up I think it's possible they're gonna need a little bit more than just that Alright guys, that was just kind of some food for thought I hope you guys liked it If you want to see more like this, let me know in the comments below like dislike comment subscribe Jump over to the forum and let me know there if you PM me There's even more likeliness that I'll get it while you're on the forum If you don't like the ads be sure to become a contributor that gets rid of all the ads at any Contribution level and if you want a shirt like the one Linus is wearing not the one I'm wearing be sure to check out Our shirts link in the description below to get a shirt. Thanks a lot for watching. I'll see you guys next time Do it go we'll get more views. We'll get more likes go Like for movies