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This PS5-based AMD BC250 board was turned into a $120 Linux gaming PC that runs GTA V at 65 FPS (www.notebookcheck.net)
submitted 17 hours ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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A YouTuber has managed to bring a cut-down version of the PlayStation 5’s hardware to life on a custom AMD BC250 board bought from China. Running Linux, the unit surprisingly booted and delivered playable performance across several modern games, effectively turning PS5 silicon into a working gaming PC.

A modder has managed to get their hands on what is being sold as the PlayStation 5’s graphics card, or more precisely, the AMD BC250 APU, a cut-down version of the PS5’s custom chip, from a Chinese seller for just £96, or roughly $120. Against all odds, the unit not only powered up but successfully ran multiple PC games on Linux, including GTA V, Cyberpunk 2077, and Counter-Strike 2.

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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I happen to just watch the actul video the article reffering to yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ6ghjRBFGQ

[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for the link, the video was pretty interesting!

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The available RAM is pretty anemic, but that sounds pretty cheap for a fully functional PC with a GPU. It mentions an RDNA2 GPU, which that family apparently has had successfully TensorFlow-DirectML running on it.

Electricity consumption would be an issue, but I wonder if these would make good machine learning training compute nodes.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Perfect platform for playing anything thats not ultra bleeding edge high performance.

and lets face it, theres a hundred thousand more of those games, than there are of the ultra bleeding edge games.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

For gaming I wonder if it could be underclocked and undervolted to get the power consumption down. Since its essentially RAM starved for alot of other games, it may not be able to take full advantage of the CPU/GPU and a slowed-down, but lower power consumption unit, might still play games of certain era's just fine.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, you can have your very own 4U rack-mount chassis with a dozen of these in it for around a grand.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186249007611 https://www.ebay.com/itm/357827557706

Less than a hundred bucks each, and no need to rig up janky power and cooling.

Not that I think you necessarily should, but the option is always there.

[–] cm0002@europe.pub 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Idk, 1k for 192GB of GDDR6 vram for running LLMs seems pretty good to me lmao

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago

Had the same thought

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 hours ago

True

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So it runs a game from 2013 at a little over the minimum acceptable FPS. What was the FPS of those other ones?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 48 minutes ago

Yeah I mean it's very little money but also a very low bar.