If you can not find a PS5 or Xbox Series X, how about an $ 80,000 electric sports car with similar performance? Tesla just announced its refreshing Model S today, and a new “Plaid” propulsion system is not the only performance improvement – the company claims that the car can now compete with the next generation of consoles, thanks to a 10-speed computer that apparently comes with every new model.
Assuming that reference to GPU performance and Tesla does not exaggerate much, it can indeed be competitive with a PS5 or Xbox Series X, which offers 10.28 teraflops and 12 teraflops raw GPU power, respectively. However, there is more to performance than teraflops.
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Now you may ask: who is going to put a game in your car that might benefit from a game computer? For that, I have to ask you to take a good look at the images above and below. Watch: CD Projekt’s award-winning adventure on the sword The Witcher 3, just as Musk predicted:
Want to play the Witcher game on your Tesla? (You can already watch the program in the Tesla Netflix theater)
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2020
Here are some things we do not know yet:
- Is The Witcher 3 actually came to Tesla, and when? (We requested CD Project.)
- Can you play it on the 17-inch main screen, 2200 x 1300 pixels, or only on the 8-inch second-inch screen? Or both?
- Will you need a new controller? (Tesla says it has ‘compatibility with a wireless controller’, but that’s all we know.)
- Who makes the GPU? (We pinged Nvidia and AMD.)
- Who is going to sit in their $ 80,000 sports car and play a game of more than 70 hours? (fingers crossed for cloud saving)
- Why not Cyberpunk? (Okay, that’s a joke.)
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You can see the claims yourself on Tesla’s Model S website, though it’s a bit buried: you have to go to the store, go to “Interior,” and click on “Features Details.”
Tesla has been bringing games to its cars for some time: we tried out Tesla Arcade in 2019 on a Model 3, and both the first level of Cuphead and a car karaoke mode came later that year to the car software in the car. Fallout Shelter was added to the cars last year.