Adrianna Nine
2024-03-18 16:58:21
www.extremetech.com
After two years of speculation and false starts, we finally have details about the PlayStation 5 Pro model’s internals. The console’s most powerful iteration is expected to launch sometime in Q4 2024, just in time for the holidays.
The PS5 Pro’s specs first leaked Thursday via the YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead. According to the channel’s sources, the upcoming “high-end version” of the PS5 (codenamed “Trinity”) features a larger GPU with 45% faster rendering than the current console. Most notable, however, was the sources’ assertion that the PS5 Pro would boast 67 teraflops of 16-bit floating point calculations or 33.5 teraflops of 32-bit floating point precision. Compared with the current PS5, that’s a 45% rendering performance improvement—if the video’s sources are correct.
The Pro’s “new, more powerful” ray tracing architecture was also said to offer anywhere from two to four times the speed of the existing PS5. A “custom architecture for machine learning” was made to support a new upscaling and antialiasing solution called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). This architecture would allegedly enable 300 tera operations per second (TOPS) of 8-bit computation.
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All of this comes down to a smoother and prettier gaming experience on the user’s end: higher framerates, immersive environmental effects, more realistic ray tracing, and all the other visual features that make the “pro” version of a console worth paying extra for. And those in search of a better visual experience are in luck. After consulting its own sources, Insider Gaming confirmed Sunday that the leaks shared via Moore’s Law Is Dead are accurate.
According to Insider Gaming’s sources, the PS5 Pro’s CPU is the same as its predecessor’s, though it features a “High CPU Frequency Mode” that offers 10% improved performance over the standard console. The audio processor allegedly runs at a higher clock speed, allowing for 35% higher performance heard through convolution reverbs and audio-responsive assets. The Pro will reportedly support resolutions up to 8K using a future software development kit. To match the current PS5’s versatility, Sony is expected to sell the Pro with a detachable disc drive and 1TB of storage.
Sources for Moore’s Law Is Dead and Insider Gaming say Sony will probably release the PS5 Pro—if that’s what it’s called—toward the end of this year.