What Consumes More Power Gaming PC or PS5/TV?

SquirrelMadness · 13 May 2022 at 15:40

With all the electricity cost increases I'm starting to wonder if it's better to game on a TV versus a PC.

Here's roughly what I got:

1200W PSU with i7 5930k, RTX 3090, about 6 SSDs + 1 M.2, a small external audio interface and an LG 1440p ultrawide monitor from 2014.

The above versus:

LG 65" C1 OLED + PS5 + LG soundbar turned down pretty low.

Realistically would the TV be more efficient?

Can't check on smart meter as it's disconnected itself and won't show readings.

EsaT · 13 May 2022 at 20:08

PC by major margin.
Unless you've limited power hogging of that 3090.

MartinPrince · 13 May 2022 at 21:59

Just watching the football on my 65" C1, so using the full 16:9 area and no power saving mode and using my wattage plug I can see it is using I'd say on average around 160 watts. Brighter screen content uses more and darker less. The max I've seen it go to just watching it for the last few minutes is ~230 watts. The PS5 as far as I know will use a Max of ~200W. Soundbars as far as I know use ~20 watts.

My RTX3090 on it's own uses ~350watts (though I've undervolted so it uses less than 300watts). My calibrated ultra wide LG monitor is ~30 watts but yours is a bit older and probably less efficient so add 10 watts. I'd guess that the PC, with GPU, CPU (~200 watts) etc is pulling at least ~600 watts at the wall.

So by my estimates the PC will be using a fair bit more.

cimurray · 15 May 2022 at 17:44

I agree with both of the above comments - any PC with an RTX 3060 or greater will use more power than a TV/PS5 combo. Having an Intel chip just adds to the power consumption.