Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off new Tesla car models in June and for gaming it was especialy noteworthy as Musk demonstrated the in-car entertainment system was capable of running the graphically demanding Cyberpunk 2077 with impressively smooth performance.
The latest Model S is said to be able to run triple-A games with "PS5-level performance" and now the innards running the show has been revealed.
Courtesy of a teardown video we now know the electric performance car comes with a Zen 1+ AMD Ryzen CPU and discrete Navi 23 graphics powering the in-car gaming system.
The car's AMD Zen 1+ processor is a quad-core 45W APU with 500kb of L2 cache and 4MB of L3 cache, according to YouTube channel Ingineerix. As for the GPU, the Tesla is equipped with both a dedicated and discrete graphics card based on AMD's Navi 23. Tesla claims their car is capable of offering performance on a par with new-gen consoles.
In addition to these gaming specs, the Tesla Model S is kitted out with a 17-inch "cinematic display", a 960-watt audio system, and an LG Innotek WiFi module for internet connectivity.
This movable console/computer feast will set you back a cool $130,000. But what is six-figures when you could drive a couple hundred miles into the desert, say, or to the other side of a (small) country, park up, and start gaming on a 17-inch screen? Only you can make that decision.
Back at the start of 2021, Tesla unveiled updated models of its Model X and Model S cars, showing off their gaming hardware additions, which supported "up to 10 teraflops of processing power". While previous models were capable of running only less demanding titles such as Cat Quest and Cuphead, the 2021 models receive a big upgrade on the gaming side.
The hardware powers Tesla Arcade, an in-car gaming system, but now drivers can play the likes of Witcher 3 on specs similar to high-end gaming systems. We have yet to see official tests of how well the latest Model S and Model Xs run triple-A games however. But for the price, you'd hope they would run The Witcher 3, which is now an old-gen game, very well, at least.