Sony’s in-house development teams have reportedly been engaged in extensive testing of PS5 Pro devkits for a considerable duration.
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The PlayStation 5 console poised on a wooden surface.
Rumors suggest Sony is crafting an enhanced iteration of the PlayStation 5, dubbed the PS5 Pro, which may feature a significantly upgraded GPU, potentially delivering up to threefold performance boosts in specific scenarios compared to the existing PS5 variants.
YouTube commentator Moore’s Law is Dead purports to have examined a technical brief concerning the PS5 Pro, codenamed Trinity, with Tom Henderson from Insider Gaming corroborating the authenticity of the leaked specifications and forecasting a release window set for the 2024 holiday season.
Extracts from the technical dossier reveal mentions of 67 teraflops of 16-bit floating-point computational power, equating to roughly 33.5 teraflops of single-precision computing. This ostensibly translates to a 45 percent enhancement in rendering capabilities over the current PS5 model.
The present PS5 boasts a 10.28-teraflop capacity; however, juxtaposing teraflop counts across these systems is nuanced due to evolutions in AMD’s RDNA architecture. Although the tripling of teraflops suggests a substantial GPU performance augmentation, a more precise comparison between the base PS5 and PS5 Pro is approximately 10.28 teraflops versus about 17 teraflops.
It appears Sony may transition from an AMD Radeon RX 6700-like GPU in the PS5 to a configuration akin to the Radeon RX 7800 XT, potentially elevating performance, particularly for ray-tracing applications. Reports indicate the PS5 Pro might offer threefold ray tracing efficacy (“up to fourfold in certain scenarios”), according to Henderson.
On Sunday, Henderson divulged additional information, stating the Pro variant would emulate the recent PS5 redesign, incorporating support for a detachable disc drive. Furthermore, the PS5 Pro is purported to have system memory operating at 576 GB/s (a 28 percent increase over the PS5) and enhanced audio hardware capable of processing more intricate effects.
Despite maintaining the same CPU as the base PS5, a “High CPU Frequency Mode” could elevate clock speeds to 3.85GHz, representing a 10 percent performance boost over the standard PS5, though enabling this mode might reduce GPU speed by approximately 1.5 percent.
Initial document leaks, allegedly sourced from Sony’s developer portal, also reference PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). This technology purportedly utilizes PlayStation’s machine learning for image upscaling akin to Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR.
Future iterations may include 8K resolution upscaling, enhancing ray tracing performance on this speculated PS5 Pro hardware.
Although Moore’s Law is Dead has a mixed track record with console leaks, Henderson’s findings suggest Sony’s internal studios have been experimenting with PS5 Pro devkits since September, with third-party developers gaining access in January. Henderson’s previous reports from last year indicated a planned PS5 Pro with an envisioned release in November 2024. It seems Sony might be on track to achieve this ambitious launch timeline.
