5 Laptops More Powerful Than The Xbox Series X
This article compares the performance of the Xbox Series X console to modern gaming laptops, arguing that current mid-range PC hardware now outperforms the console. It suggests specific laptop models as viable alternatives for gamers looking for higher performance.
Why it matters
As console hardware ages, consumers are increasingly evaluating the value proposition of PC gaming hardware versus fixed-console ecosystems.
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The Xbox Series X is an impressive gaming console, but its custom chip is no longer the high-end offering it once was. The console features a custom RDNA 2 GPU with 52 compute units running at a locked 1.825GHz, producing 12.155 teraflops of GPU compute power, paired with eight Zen 2 CPU cores at up to 3.8GHz. When thinking about an Xbox Series X GPU equivalent, the graphical performance lands somewhere between an Nvidia RTX 2070 Super and an RTX 3060 Ti, or an AMD RX 6700 XT for real-world gaming.
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