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Empowered vs Cost Plus - Essential Tier Gaming PC Comparison

Empowered vs Cost Plus - Essential Tier: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

FPS Winner
Empowered PC Image
Empowered PC Image

Empowered PC

122nd Variation

CPURyzen 7 7800X3DGPUGeForce RTX 3070
Empowered PC Sentinel Gamer Desktop - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, AMD 8-Core Ryzen 7 8700F CPU, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB Gen4 NVMe SSD, WiFi 6E, Windows 11 Pro - Tower Gaming Computer

Buy for $1,499.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 505 minutes ago

vs
Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC Image
CPURyzen 5 5600XGPUGeForce RTX 4060
Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC Desktop - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7GHz, RTX 4060, 1TB NVME SSD, 16GB DDR4-3200, 600W+ Gold PSU, Windows 11 Home 64-bit

Buy for $799.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 489 minutes ago

FPS Winner

Empowered PC

Empowered PC Image
Empowered PC Image

122nd Variation

CPURyzen 7 7800X3DGPUGeForce RTX 3070
Empowered PC Sentinel Gamer Desktop - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, AMD 8-Core Ryzen 7 8700F CPU, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB Gen4 NVMe SSD, WiFi 6E, Windows 11 Pro - Tower Gaming Computer

Buy for $1,499.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 505 minutes ago

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Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC

Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC Image
Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC Image

CPURyzen 5 5600XGPUGeForce RTX 4060
Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC Desktop - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7GHz, RTX 4060, 1TB NVME SSD, 16GB DDR4-3200, 600W+ Gold PSU, Windows 11 Home 64-bit

Buy for $799.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 489 minutes ago

Key Differences

In short — Empowered outperforms the cheaper Cost Plus - Essential Tier on the selected game parameters. However, the worse performing Cost Plus - Essential Tier is a better bang for your buck.

Advantages of Empowered PC

  • Performs up to 32% better in Red Dead Redemption 2 than Cost Plus - Essential Tier - 70 vs 53 FPS

Advantages of Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC

  • Up to 47% cheaper than Empowered - $799.99 vs $1499.99
  • Up to 30% better value when playing Red Dead Redemption 2 than Empowered - $15.09 vs $21.43 per FPS
This is a free version of Red Dead Redemption 2.
Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Highest

Empowered PC Image
Empowered PC

122nd Variation


FPS

70

100%

Value, $/FPS

$21.43/FPS

70%

Price, $

$1499.99

53%

FPS Winner

Empowered PC Sentinel Gamer Desktop - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, AMD 8-Core Ryzen 7 8700F CPU, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB Gen4 NVMe SSD, WiFi 6E, Windows 11 Pro - Tower Gaming Computer

Buy for $1,499.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 505 minutes ago


FPS

53

76%

Value, $/FPS

$15.09/FPS

100%

Price, $

$799.99

100%

Value Winner

Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC Desktop - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7GHz, RTX 4060, 1TB NVME SSD, 16GB DDR4-3200, 600W+ Gold PSU, Windows 11 Home 64-bit

Buy for $799.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 489 minutes ago

TOP 5 Games

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Highest

GPU Comparison

Compared by selected game FPS and theoretical performance

Full GPU Comparison
Empowered PC Image
Empowered PC

122nd Variation


NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

8 GB | System-Shared

Pixel Fillrate

165.6 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

317.4 GTexel/s

100%

GPU Winner


NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Logo
GeForce RTX 4060

8 GB | System-Shared

Pixel Fillrate

118.1 GPixel/s

71%

Texel Fillrate

236.2 GTexel/s

74%

CPU Comparison

Compared by selected game FPS and Geekbench 5 benchmark scores

Full CPU Comparison
Empowered PC Image
Empowered PC

122nd Variation


AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Logo
Ryzen 7 7800X3D

null-core

Single-Core

2719

100%

Multi-Core

15172

100%

CPU Winner

Empowered PC Image

Empowered PC

Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC Image

Cost Plus Gaming - Essential Tier Gaming PC

UnknownRelease DateUnknown
Ryzen 7 7800X3DCPURyzen 5 5600X
GeForce RTX 3070GPUGeForce RTX 4060
32 GB
RAM16 GB
512 GB SSD + 2 TB HDDStorage1 TB SSD

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