Which NVIDIA or AMD GPU Offers Performance Similar to the PS5 Slim?

The RX 9060 XT is faster than the base PS5 and shouldn’t really be grouped with the lower-end comparison cards. It can trade blows with the PS5 Pro in some games, so it’s above what you’d normally buy as a PS5 Slim equivalent.

Keep in mind that equivalent specifications don’t always mean equivalent gaming performance. Console developers optimize for one fixed hardware configuration, while PC games have to support many different systems. Because of that, a PS5 Slim can sometimes deliver smoother results than a similarly specced desktop GPU, especially in well-optimized console titles.

From a hardware-spec perspective, the PS5 GPU is often described as being similar to a cut-down or modified RX 6700-series chip. Its higher memory capacity and console-specific design make direct comparisons difficult, though. A desktop RX 6600 may look similar in raw compute in some comparisons, while an RX 6700 is generally a closer real-world estimate.

The closest overall comparison is probably an RX 6700-class card. The PS5 uses a customized AMD GPU with 16GB of shared memory, so it doesn’t match a desktop card perfectly, but an RX 6700 or something around the RTX 2070, RTX 3060 12GB, RTX 4060, or RTX 5050 should give a reasonable performance comparison.