Many of us believed it was a somewhat absurd movement in this generation, since there are barely any games and the power of the PS5 and Xbox Series X is more than enough to run graphically demanding games. Despite everything, Sony thinks differently.
Apparently, Sony is working on a PlayStation 5 Pro model that could include a much more powerful GPU and up to three times faster for certain tasks than the existing PS5 models.
The YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead claims to have had access to a technical document of the PS5 Pro, whose codename is Trinity, and now Tom Henderson from Insider Gaming reports that the leaked specifications are accurate and that the console will be released during the 2024 holidays.
The PS5 Pro will be three times more powerful than the PS5
The screenshots of the technical document mention 67 teraflops of 16-bit floating point calculation, which is equivalent to about 33.5 teraflops of single precision calculation.
This represents a 45% improvement in rendering performance compared to the PS5. The current PS5 is a 10.28 teraflop console, but comparing teraflops directly between these consoles is complicated due to changes in AMD’s RDNA architecture.
Although tripling the teraflops would seem to result in a significant increase in GPU performance, the comparison between the current PS5 and the PS5 Pro would be closer to 10.28 teraflops versus about 17 teraflops.
And it seems that Sony could be moving from an AMD Radeon RX 6700 in the PS5 to something similar to the Radeon RX 7800 XT. This could offer more impressive performance for ray tracing games. According to Henderson, it is possible that the PS5 Pro triples ray tracing performance (“x4 in some cases”).
On Sunday, Henderson added more details, such as the fact that the Pro would continue the recent redesign of PS5 with support for a removable disk drive. He also claims that the PS5 Pro could have a system memory of 576 GB/s (28% more than the PS5), as well as higher-performance audio hardware capable of processing more effects.
They also say that the PS5 Pro will have the same CPU as the basic PS5, with a “high CPU frequency mode” that increases the frequency up to 3.85 GHz. This would result in a 10% performance increase compared to the standard PS5.
The original document leak, which apparently was published on Sony’s own developer portal, also mentions the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). It is rumored to use PlayStation’s machine learning to enhance image resolution similar to Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR.
It is very possible that it will include scaling to 8K resolutions in future versions and will help improve ray tracing performance on this rumored PS5 Pro hardware.
