What Tesla Model S Plaid has in common with PlayStation 5

It would seem - a car and a game console - what can the Tesla Model S Plaid have in common with the PlayStation 5. But there are similarities. Tesla technologists have endowed the car's on-board computer with incredible power. What is the point of spending money on a PlayStation 5 if you can buy a car with a game console included.

 

Tesla Model S Plaid - the car of the future

 

The declared technical characteristics are for motorists. The power reserve is 625 km, acceleration to hundreds in 2 seconds. Electric motor, suspension, driving characteristics. In the context of IT technologies, completely different opportunities attract attention. The on-board computer of the Tesla Model S Plaid car has a performance of 10 teraflops. Yes, the same power can be delivered by the Sony PlayStation 5 game console.

The on-board computer is built on the AMD Navi 23 chip. It uses the RDNA 2 architecture with 2048 stream processors. They all work at the same frequency - 2.44 GHz. In fact, if you connect the car system to the Internet, you can safely mine bitcoin.

But Tesla offers something more interesting. Namely - games on the display of the on-board computer. A photo of the interior of a Tesla Model S Plaid has been leaked to the network. The screen clearly shows the game The Witcher 3. By the way, the new Cyberpunk 2077 the computer will also pull. You can't just play while driving with the autopilot on. Games start when the handbrake mode is on. But this is a computer - any locks can be bypassed, if you wish.