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Can you show me a build that you can make from off-the-shelf parts today for $700 that is comparable to the 6700XT in the Series X, without carrying over existing parts?

PC Part Picker doesn't seem to think so: https://pcpartpicker.com/builds/#X=0,70000&sort=price

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Don't forget console optimization, at least for triple-A games, makes the hardware punch well above its weight class compared to the PC version. Halo 5 on the Xbox One looks about as good as anything I run on my GTX 1070 despite it having the hardware equivalent of a GTX 750.

Kinda mostly not a thing anymore. DX12 / Vulkan closed up the last remaining notable gap here. Particularly as consoles became more PC-like in OS-level restrictions to combat piracy, and PCs added more low-level interfaces to improve performance.

Console optimizations these days is mostly just dialing in the settings & using liberal amounts of up-scaling (which the PC versions also often support, but is disabled by default)

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