The Lead Programmer of ARK: Survival Evolved has compared the performance of PS4 Pro to a $900 PC gaming rig.
Speaking in an interview with Wccftech, Jeremy Stieglitz says that the studio was “extremely impressed” with PS4 Pro while porting its survival adventure game from the PC and Xbox One versions.
“We estimate it would cost at least $900 to build a similarly powerful PC”, said Stieglitz, “and that’s if you were custom-building it with extreme cost control. We estimate its raw GPU performance is similar to an NVIDIA 970, and along with CPU improvements and overall more memory, it’s a really high benchmark for console performance. Hats off to Sony for “crossing the Rubicon” of console hardware updates (bonus that it tends to improve performance in just about every existing title in the PlayStation 4 library)!”
The team behind the PS4 port was Dutch developer, Abstraction Games. In an interview with PlayStation Universe, also said that PS4 Pro version runs more smoothly than the standard PS4 version, and that the company are targeting 60fps for when the game fully launches in Spring 2017.
ARK: Survival Evolved released last week on PS4 as an early access title with a major update planned during its full launch next year.