Tesla’s new Model S will apparently play Witcher 3 on a built-in 10 teraflop gaming rig

If you can’t find a PS5 or Xbox Series X, how about an $ 80,000 electric sports car with comparable performance? Tesla just announced its refreshed Model S today, and a new ‘Plaid’ powertrain isn’t its only performance boost – the company says the car can now compete with next-gen gaming consoles, thanks to a 10 teraflop gaming computer come with every new model.

Assuming this refers to GPU performance and Tesla isn’t exaggerating hugely, this could indeed be competitive with a PS5 or Xbox Series X, which offer 10.28 teraflops and 12 teraflops of raw GPU power, respectively. But performance isn’t limited to teraflops.

Now you might be wondering: who is going to put a game in your car that could actually benefit from a gaming PC? For this I have to ask you to take a close look at the images above and below. Behold: CD Projekt’s famous sword-shooting adventure The Witcher 3, as Musk predicted:

Here are a number of things we still don’t know:

• East The Witcher 3 actually come to Tesla, and when? (We asked CD Projekt.)
• Can you read it on the 17-inch, 2200 x 1300-pixel main screen, or just the 8-inch second row display? Or both?
• Will you need a new controller? (Tesla says it has “wireless controller compatibility” but that’s all we know.)
• Who manufactures the GPU? (We polled Nvidia and AMD.)
• Who is going to sit in their $ 80,000 sports car and play a game for over 70 hours? (fingers crossed for cloud backups)
• Why not Cyberpunk? (Okay, that’s a joke.)

You can see the claims for yourself on the Tesla Model S website, although they are a bit buried: you have to go to the store, scroll down to “Interior” and click on “Feature Details.”

Tesla has been bringing games to its cars for quite some time now: we tried Tesla Arcade on a Model 3 in 2019, and both the first tier of Cuphead and a car karaoke mode came to the company’s in-car software later this year. Fallout shelter was added to cars last year.