Steam Machine vs PlayStation 5
Machine: Living-room SteamOS PC. Roughly PS5-class rasterization — a true 1080p/1440p machine, not the native-4K box the marketing implies. 8 GB VRAM is its real ceiling.
PS5: The price-per-frame benchmark. Closed console, optimized first-party engines, exclusives — and roughly half the Machine's price.
- $1049
- Price
- $499
- Semi-custom AMD RDNA 3, 28 CU @ ~2.45 GHz (110 W)
- GPU
- AMD RDNA 2, 36 CU (~10.3 TFLOPs)
- ~Radeon RX 7600 / GeForce RTX 4060 class
- GPU equivalent
- —
- AMD Zen 4, 6 cores / 12 threads
- CPU
- AMD Zen 2, 8 cores
- 8 GB GDDR6
- VRAM
- shared (16 GB GDDR6)
- 16 GB DDR5
- Memory
- 16 GB GDDR6
- 1080p native / 1440p with FSR
- Realistic target
- 4K dynamic / 60 fps modes
- SteamOS
- Platform
- PS5
Living-room SteamOS PC. Roughly PS5-class rasterization — a true 1080p/1440p machine, not the native-4K box the marketing implies. 8 GB VRAM is its real ceiling.
The price-per-frame benchmark. Closed console, optimized first-party engines, exclusives — and roughly half the Machine's price.
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