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We're back, with another head to head battle between the PS5 and 4060Mobile. Last time the 32W 4060M in a 3.3lb notebook-sized form factor gave a hard thrashing to a linux operated PS5 in Cyberpunk 2077's RT overdrive mode. This time, they are squaring up in Capcom's lunar scifi Pragmata. A title with far lower ray tracing demands, and thus, being more favorable to the PS5 on its native operating system. But the 4060 also has a "new" trick. It is significantly less handicapped in the power department, with a budget of 60W and 75W. Normally, the 1440p mode isn't accessible, however, there was a glitch where loading a PS5Professional cloud save from the PS5, would cause the PS5 to inherit PS5Professional's qualities, and render at 1440p.

Game Test Sequence: Bossfight cutscene for easy reproduction and lots of hairstrands. PS5 footage taken from DF's video [Boost Pragmata PS5 Resolution: How To Play At 1440p Instead Of Standard 1080p ](https://youtu.be/AXzKMWUrMY0?si=3VmOPxhtUn02V-je&t=508) Sadly their video snippet of the bossfight was very short. PC footage was taken using the demo version.

PC Settings: 1440p, High settings with RT on (light RT reflections+global illumination), motion blur off, and texture pool setting set to low to avoid any potential 8GB frame buffer issues. The assumption is that PS5 resolution mode should match pc high settings for the most part.

CPU: Ryzen 8 core Zen 4 8945HS given 20W. Though Pragmata is very light on the cpu and could get away with probably 10W.

Results: The 4060 at 60W (left) roughly trades blows with PS5 (bottom). The 4060 with 75W (right) is about 15-20% faster than the PS5. There was a frametime spike that wasn't on the PS5.

Takeaway: The 75W 4060 is had the highest framerates - it maintains mid 40s and 50s well outside of close up views of hair strands. There was a big frame time spike, though that is not representative of normal gameplay. At 60W the 4060M would probably do decent, performance being on par with the PS5, though the PS5 had a slight victory: no large frame time dip at one point. However, tested settings are suboptimal - the 4060 has DLSS 4 upscaling for a much smoother 60+ fps 1440p experience. Finally, according to DF there was a problem reported at 1440p with raytracing on 8 GB gpus. The low texture quality settings is said to have a frame time bug, though I didn't see that here. Very low textures look poor, and medium textures could cause problems. Maybe that has been patched.

As those bearing relation to Digital Foundry, we here love whacky ideas, fashionable trends and the antiquated alike. Today, we have Cyberpunk 2077 pushing graphics to the limits: Maxed out settings with RT Overdrive mode in a head to head hardware battle:

In one corner, we have mobile parts from 2023. An 8 core Zen 4 Ryzen 8945HS cpu given an allowance of 16W, paired with the most popular discrete graphics card, the RTX 4060M with a custom power allowance of 32W - locked to 1200MHz on the core clocks (Points awarded from the DF team for low power). All packed into a 3.3lb package the size of a notebook (Double points from the DF Team). In the opposite corner, we have the mighty winner of the 2020 home console wars, putting Xbox Series consoles 6 feet under by selling over 90M units. This is of course, the PS5, the juggernaut console weighing 10lb, drawing over 200W total (Minus points from the DF team), and taking enough space to draw the wife's ire (Minus double points). A true silicon David vs Goliath for the here and now. But there's a caveat - the PS5 is modded to run Linux as its operating system, something only possible with consoles before a certain update. PS5 hardware with Linux has been tested previously by the DF team, and results indicate Linux performs on par, and even above, with the bespoke PS5 operating system.

Let's cut to the chase. At 1080p with using XeSS performance (43% render resolution), the linux based PS5 scores an impressive 20 fps when directly facing the bar, and an astounding 22.6 fps on average for the entire path traced benchmark run. The 32W 4060, on the other hand, is only able to deliver 29 fps when facing the bar, and 31 fps on average using the exact same settings. 37 percentage points to the better of the Playstation 5. These are not good results for the 4060. When switching over to DLSS 4 Upscaling Preset K, ray reconstruction, and a custom override, internal resolution to 43%, equivalent resolution to XeSS performance mode, performance improves marginally: 31 fps for the bar, and 33.7 fps on average. This is 49% faster than the PS5. A marginal improvement at best.

Well, there you have it folks. After a grueling fight, the 16W 8940HS/32W 4060M combo managed to eek out a small victory for Cyberpunk's path tracing. However, this is a purely academic battle. 30 fps on average is not enough for a decent experience, and the slowest frames dip under 30. The internal rendering resolution is set to an all time low of 464p. Power draw is over 20W, no longer producing merit of note. David has triumphed for the moment, but it is alas, a victory in futility.

Edit: I forgot to mention the 4060M has an official power budget of 35-115W. This configuration in particular is typically limited to 60-90W, but using voodoo magic, I was able to lock the clockspeed to 1200Mhz, cutting power consumption by half in this instance. Stay tuned for further testing.