The power of the PS5, or a particular chunk of it, may be coming to 80 pre-assembled PC systems.

AMD told our sister site Tom's Hardware that the 4700S Desktop Kit, consisting of a CPU, motherboard, cooler, and RAM, will be the backbone of these new desktops. hardwareluxxe editor As Andreas Schilling pointed out, the processor in the 4700S desktop kit looks suspiciously like the custom Ariel CPUs found in Sony's game consoles.

The 4700S Desktop Kit chips also lack the Ryzen branding, further hinting at origins outside of AMD's usual desktop CPU product line Both Ariel and 4700S Desktop Kit CPUs are octa-core with Zen 2 cores, 16-thread chip, and use GDDR6 for system RAM rather than the more common DDR4.

The main difference is that the 4700S desktop kit processor does not have integrated graphics, instead assuming the addition of a dedicated graphics card One possibility is that these chips are PS5 processors with the integrated RDNA GPU disabled and and it is also possible that AMD is reusing PS5 chips with graphics defects.

In an interview with Tom's Hardware, the company stated, "The AMD 4700S Desktop Kit is a unique solution, designed to meet the mainstream market's desire for robust, high core count performance. However, this refers to the 4700S Desktop Kit as a whole, not just the processor.

In any case, the 4700S Desktop Kit seems to be more focused on affordable and mid-range gaming desktops than on ultra-premium systems. Already, PCs under $700 are appearing in Asian retailers, and while the PS5 itself is showing off its technological talents in games like "Ratchet & Clank," AMD is showing off its talents in games like "Rift Apart": the AMD4700S Desktop Kit forms the foundation for entry-level PCs.