The gaming PC you may construct for the worth of a PlayStation 5 Pro in South Africa – MyBroadband

Rising laptop reminiscence costs make it troublesome to construct a gaming PC that provides efficiency near the PlayStation 5 Pro at a cheaper price in South Africa.

The PS5 Pro is at the moment probably the most highly effective gaming console available on the market, supporting as much as 4K decision at 60 frames per second within the newest titles.

The core part behind it is a customized AMD RDNA chip with 60 compute items and 16.7 teraflops of graphics energy, considerably greater than the ten.28 of the usual PS5.

Even so, it’s not practically as succesful as probably the most highly effective gaming PCs. The top-of-the-line Nvidia RTX 5090 can comfortably ship greater than 80 teraflops of rendering energy.

However, though gaming consoles might not provide the blistering efficiency of top-end gaming PCs, they have a tendency to strike a great steadiness between worth and functionality.

The PS5 Pro’s advisable retail worth in South Africa is R19,499. At the time of writing, it was promoting for underneath R18,000 from a number of outstanding retailers in South Africa.

That worth is lower than half the RTX 5090’s worth alone, which was obtainable for simply shy of R50,000 on the finish of 2025. All the opposite parts wanted for a practical gaming PC considerably add to that worth.

MyBroadband configured a PC that was anticipated to offer comparable efficiency to the PS5 Pro in December 2025 to find out whether or not it might value roughly the identical.

We beforehand did the identical at its launch in August 2024 and located that such a PC could possibly be barely cheaper than Sony’s premium console.

However, at that time, there had not been many analyses of the console’s precise efficiency, so pure {hardware} specs have been the perfect indicator.

For instance, the PS5 Pro’s customized GPU regarded like it might provide comparable efficiency because the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT or Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070.

Since then, Digital Foundry has analysed the PS5 Pro’s GPU, which carried out equally to the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, which we’ve utilized in our PC construct.

Avoiding DDR5

The subsequent most necessary part is the processor. We opted for the AMD Ryzen 7 5700, which is highly effective sufficient to stop bottlenecking the GPU whereas additionally providing good worth total.

While we may go for a more moderen AM5-based Ryzen 7000 sequence CPU to make the PC extra future-proof, a motherboard with the required socket would additionally require the most recent DDR5 RAM.

While the PS5 additionally has DDR5 RAM, the reminiscence has turn into terribly costly in 2025 as a result of huge demand for it in knowledge centres with synthetic intelligence (AI) processing capabilities.

IT distributor Syntech lately informed MyBroadband that DDR5 package costs had practically doubled within the yr. Higher-speed DDR4 is considerably cheaper and is unlikely to influence efficiency considerably.

For the motherboard, we chosen the Asus Prime B550M-Okay Micro-ATX, because it provided a lot of the options we required for the opposite parts to match the PS5 Pro’s efficiency.

That included PCIe 4.0 help for the NVME SSD, which might allow it to attain the learn and write speeds of the PS5 Pro’s 2TB SSD.

The pricing of storage has additionally been impacted by elevated reminiscence costs. When we carried out our earlier evaluation, Wootware had the Mushkin D8 Tempest (MKNSSDTS2TB) NVMe SSD for R1,799.

That identical piece of {hardware} was priced at R2,999 — 67% extra — from the identical retailer in December 2025. In truth, all of the 2TB NVMe SSDs from main retailers in South Africa have been round R3,000.

The most reasonably priced choice we discovered, with comparable learn and write speeds to the PS5, was a Western Digital Blue 2TB NVMe SSD from Takealot, priced at R2,715.

For our different parts, we opted for probably the most reasonably priced but succesful, together with an influence provide with a score barely greater than what our parts would eat.

Our system’s whole worth was R18,519, about R1,000 cheaper than the advisable retail worth of the PS5 Pro, however barely costlier than its going charge on the time of writing.

PS5 Pro-equivalent PC construct — December 2025

Component	Product	Price
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700	R2,829 (PC International)
Graphics card	Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB	R7,999 (Wootware)
Motherboard	ASUS PRIME B550M-Okay ARGB AMD B550 Ryzen Socket AM4 Micro-ATX	R1,699 (Wootware)
Wi-Fi adapter	ASUS PCE-AXE5400 Tri Band 2×2 MU-MIMO WiFi 6E PCI-E Wireless Adapter	R399 (Wootware)
RAM	Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 3,600MHz 2x8GB memor package	R1,399 (Amazon.co.za)
Storage	Western Digital Blue 2TB NVMe SSD	R2,715 (Takealot)
Power provide	Antec Atom Antec Atom V2 V650 550W PSU	R779 (Titan Ice)
Case	DeepCool CC360 M-ATX Airflow case, 3X Pre-Installed 120mm ARGB Fans, Tempered Glass Side Panel	R699 (Evetech)
Price with out Windows 11		R18,519
Price with Windows 11		R21,818