Horizon: Zero Dawn PC vs PS4 Pro Graphics Comparison, Port Analysis And More

An in-depth tech analysis of Horizon: Zero Dawn on PC.

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Shocking just how close a PS4 game is looking on PS4 Pro when compared to the same game running on hardware that is enormously greater than the PS4 Pro... Currently I only own a beefy P.C. (no consoles for the time being) and while the optimization here is not so good, at all, this can be said about a lot of P.C. titles... At any-rate, if we go by teraflop performance (not counting my CPU), I have about SO MUCH more power than the the PS4 Pro (or One X for that matter) and I've got 32GB of fast system RAM... The visual differences **to the average person** in my house (and or guests) compared to when I did have a PS4 Pro = almost non-existent. It's infuriating, but its the truth. It's screwed up (though *** I *** still enjoy my higher framerates). I suppose we are reaching a visual plateau where differences are more and more subtle, even with much more power, but still...

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the game is very gpu bound and the ps4 pro is packing somehting just little worse than a 1060, what did you expect? To get the game running at ps4 pro settings and 60 fps takes some gpu power, no way around it. A ps4 pro is a $400 machine that is pretty much only any good for gaming, you can get a 2060 super for that price, and i dont consider the price of the rest of the pc all that much because Im going to want a pc regardless of gaming.

I think Guerilla has done well for the first try at making a pc game, you can hit 1080p 60 ps4 pro settings with a mid range card day 1.

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Doesn't change the fact that even with what was nearly a $1000 video card, most non-gaming/non-obsessive sorts can hardly see much difference between a game running on PS4 Pro vs. the MUCH beefier P.C. I'm getting annoyed with the lack of utilization of P.C. hardware beyond being able to crank up the framerate - nevermind fiddling with settings to maximize what I CAN do only to learn that I feel more and more like my selling of the PS4 and increased focus on my P.C. was my buying a "bill of goods"... Don't get me wrong, I like my P.C. and I am exaggerating just a little bit to convey the point, but as I said before, it seems we are getting to a graphical level AND/OR development for P.C. is limited to a point, that regardless of FAR GREATER power, the real world visual differences are beginning to be subtle at best. I agree with you on the "I'm going to want a" computer regardless of gaming. That said, my computer is a little bit different from a non-gaming just because I need a computer build ;-). I like it... It's just that the level of superiority that should be there for P.C. gaming, based on the hardware, is SO DIFFERENT from the reality - in my opinion (and apparently that of many other less "obsessed" individuals I've tried to "show" the differences to). I'll still appreciate it, but I've got to be honest too.