I BOUGHT THE PLAYSTATION 4'S GPU

Can you believe that the PlayStation 4 was released almost 13 years ago? Yet despite its age, the PS4 still has tens of millions of monthly active users. But with every game capped to 60 FPS or even 30 FPS, that made me wonder what could the PS4's GPU actually do if you uncapped the frame rate? So in this video I'm gonna buy the PS4's graphics card to see just how good it really is. But to do that I had to first figure out what GPU the PS4 even has. However, just like every modern game console, it doesn't really even have a graphics card. The PS4 uses a custom AMD SoC made specifically for it, meaning that the CPU and GPU are built onto the same chip. Unfortunately, the PS4's GPU is not something you can just go out and buy. So just like I did in my Xbox One GPU video, I looked up the exact specs of the PS4 GPU and tried to match it to the closest possible PC graphics card. And after some time, it became pretty clear that the closest match in terms of specs, architecture and performance was the AMD Radeon HD 7850 with very similar specs and a theoretical compute power within 5% of the PS4's GPU. The HD 7850 is just about as close as you can get. But you probably noticed that there is one spec that doesn't match up in the slightest. The VRAM capacity. Surely these GPUs aren't even close at all. If the PS4 has four times more VRAM. But once again, just like the Xbox One, the PS4 uses 8 gigs of shared memory that both the CPU and GPU pull from, while the HD seventy eight 50 has 2 gigs fully dedicated to it. And to be fair, 13 years ago, 2 gigs was a very respectable amount of VRAM. Now some people do compare the PS4 to the more powerful HD 7870 instead because achieving the same performance on PC usually requires better specs, since you obviously can't have console optimization on PC. So in that sense, it kind of makes sense to compare the PS4's GPU to something more powerful than it. But just by looking at the theoretical compute power and GPU clock speeds, you can see exactly why I did not feel like I could call the HD 7870 the PS4's GPU. It's just significantly more powerful. 39% higher compute power is not a joke. That is a huge difference. So while you might expect the HD 7850 to fall behind a real PS4, later in this video I'm going to do something that helps make up for the lack of console optimization without having to use a more powerful GPU and defeating the entire purpose of this video. But before we can test the GPU, we first need to actually get our hands on an HD 7850. And as usual, I went straight to eBay to try to pick one up for the lowest possible price. Now from what I can tell, a PS4 goes for around $110. So realistically, I'm not trying to spend more than like $40 for a PS4 equivalent graphics card. And this first guy was selling it for $20. This was the lowest price I could find. But after clicking on his listing, you'll see exactly why this listing has been up for six months. I can't lie bro, you'd have to pay me to take this from you. I found someone auctioning off his 7850 for a starting bid of $30 and with only 30 minutes left, I was about to go for it until I saw someone else auctioning theirs off for $20 and a lower shipping cost. So I let that one go and set a reminder for Saturday, April 18th, hoping that I wouldn't lose that bid opportunity to save $10. I'm taking it, I don't care. $10 is $10. In my head I was like, there's no way I lose a bid for a 7850. But when Saturday came around at 5:38 PM, just 84 minutes before the auction was gonna end, something that I did not even think was a possibility actually happened. The seller manually ended his auction 84 minutes early, which cock blocked me from getting it because the item is no longer available. I don't know why eBay lets people do this type of thing. But what I do know is that you should subscribe to my YouTube channel unless you don't like my videos, then that's okay, you don't need to subscribe. But if you want to, then feel free to subscribe. He must have just sold it off on some other platform, which is reasonable, but still very annoying because I was just about to bid for it. So now we gotta find another 7850 in good condition. So as a result of missing out on those two auctions, I went to Kijiji basically just Craigslist for Canadian people. And it was here that I found someone selling it for $20 Canadian dollars. Except Lil Bro is quite a few hours away from my house and I would probably never do this far of a meet up for something that's this cheap. So I went for it, asked if it was tested and then asked if he could do shipping. But Lil Bro just hit me with the, if you ever come to Toronto in the future, that would be much easier and preferable. Thank you. Which basically is just a very respectful way of saying, fuck off. Fair enough, little bro. Well, now I see why he said that it's been sitting on the shelf for a long time, cause little bro doesn't know how to ship out a thing. No one's trying to meet up for a $20 GPU, let's be honest. No one is trying to drive two hours to pick up a $20 GPU. Are we serious bro? At this point, I had to go with Plan C. Plan C, throw a bunch of offers at eBay sellers and hope someone would take $20. And luckily, the next day, April 30th, someone had already accepted my offer. The only thing is the shipping is $31.81, which is kind of insane. But as long as this guy doesn't take like longer than a month to ship it, it'll be fine. It's going to take 28 days to get to my house. It has legitimately never taken that long for anything from anywhere to arrive at my house. Well, actually...