The Playstation 5 consumes more power than even the latest GeForce RTX 3080 laptops

[Redaktion]

There's a lot of data out there on the Playstation 5 and how power-hungry it can be when running games. Now, let's see if it's any more power efficient than the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, 3070, and 3080 gaming laptops.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Playstation-5-consumes-more-power-than-even-the-latest-GeForce-RTX-3080-laptops.519313.0.html

[Muhammad Anhar]

Comparing laptop components to desktop component. What NBC had been smoking with?

[mochabean]

breaking news: gaming device plugged into wall uses more power than gaming device designed to run on batteries

[Grinnie Jax]

Is it a joke? Plug-only device consumes a bit more power than a "portable" device? Is it good for the first or the second? Strange article...

[Jackson]

Good info Allen. Very interesting. It does seem more comparable to a laptop than most of these desktops people are building with massive power supplies.

[Bluesun]

Yes, let's compare a game console that plugs into the wall continuously to a device designed to save power... Genius journalism there...

[8&8]

Good article , instead for me, for one reason, PS5 RDNA2 36CU get perfs according benchs as a GTX 1660Ti, and its consumption is exaggerated , even higher than RTX 3080 mobile that get 2x perfs.
Maybe with a PS5 pro Zen3/40CU RDNA2 will get better perfs. Waiting for RDNA3

[Dudley Lionheart]

Good article, just ignore the disgruntled comments.

Both units compared can be unplugged in a couple of seconds and thrown into a back-pack, so a highly relevant article. What's more astonishing, is that the laptop is powering a coloured LCD screen as well.

[_MT_]

breaking news: gaming device plugged into wall uses more power than gaming device designed to run on batteries

While I struggle to see a point of the article (I guess he equates power consumption with performance and therefore argues that PS5 offers a lot of performance for the money), full performance in a typical gaming laptop is only available while plugged-in. And even with reduced performance on battery, battery life is almost non-existent while playing demanding games. I mean, it's trivial mathematics. Even a big 100 Wh battery would last just over half an hour with 180 W load on it (100/180). If not less because of the relatively high discharge rate. If you want to game for, say, three hours, you don't have a big power budget. You're more in an ultrabook territory than gaming laptop territory - about 30 W at most, for the whole laptop.

[Tiger]

Good article, just ignore the disgruntled comments.

Both units compared can be unplugged in a couple of seconds and thrown into a back-pack, so a highly relevant article. What's more astonishing, is that the laptop is powering a coloured LCD screen as well.

The display only uses a few watts of power. I wouldn't say that it qualifies for *astonishing*.

[Tiger]

breaking news: gaming device plugged into wall uses more power than gaming device designed to run on batteries

While I struggle to see a point of the article (I guess he equates power consumption with performance and therefore argues that PS5 offers a lot of performance for the money), full performance in a typical gaming laptop is only available while plugged-in. And even with reduced performance on battery, battery life is almost non-existent while playing demanding games. I mean, it's trivial mathematics. Even a big 100 Wh battery would last just over half an hour with 180 W load on it (100/180). If not less because of the relatively high discharge rate. If you want to game for, say, three hours, you don't have a big power budget. You're more in an ultrabook territory than gaming laptop territory - about 30 W at most, for the whole laptop.

I agree, it appears that the editors are paid according to the number of articles they churn out, instead of quality and sense.

[Jadoo]

Why would you even compare a ps5 with a notebook? I just doesn't make sense. All of this while testing witcher 3. Atleast test the latest games.

[Anonym]

Good article, just ignore the disgruntled comments.

Ah, yes. Why wouldn't we compare the power-consumption of EUR€2000-EUR€3000+ machines made specifically to be power efficient against a console starting at USD$399/EUR€399 that is made specifically to be cost effective? /s

[Grimish]

Okay so this one is tough to figure out. Power comparison is a great thing but what is being compared is a apples to oranges:
PS5 - Ryzen with Zen2 that runs at solid 3.5GHz.
GPU is a CUSTOM RDNA2 Device -
Let's look at the only similar specialized technology that is available future laptops as well as a single release in 2020. It's the power management technology SmartShift®.

Forget that laptops have displays and are not designed the same way - nor can you load them up with an obscene amount of liquid metal and look at the only 2020 laptop that had the Smartshift technology:

Dell G15SE - CPU Zen2 Ryzen 7 4800H (Great! We close with both being Zen2)
GPU is RX 5600M RDNA® with SmartShift® technology (Crap - We have fallen an RDNA generation behind) That is the closest you can get to similar technology if a laptop and console will be compared as well as how power will be handled as power from the CPU/GPU can shift between them. This year it was the only 2 consumer products (except maybe the Xbox as well) that utilized this technology. Now I still believe we are far from actually being similar with technology. Not to mention rating the performance. But as for price - that Dell will land you anywhere between 800 and 1200 bucks. Power utilization - that has to be studied carefully too. But this is definitely a more viable comparison especially when you are talking power and dollar to dollar - Not performance. As for performance I know that the G15 SE ran hot. I got one and compiled a Linux kernel with all the optimizations and boy it was hot. Didn't do alot of rendering in the quality realm. Was compiling and testing Mesa.

There is my two cents. Not a bad idea but the technology from a console to a laptop is just too far apart even if you try to get close to the hardware; which you cannot; only touch on technology features with similar hardware and we are an RDNA generation apart along with SOC/Displays, etc etc.

[MOFO]

When are we going to see the PS5 power consumption vs a refrigerator?
We need to know these things