New hints about the graphic performance of the PlayStation 5 (PS5) have now come from an encrypted message from a developer. It didn’t take long for players to crack it.
Where did the new information come from? A cryptic message was posted by the user o’dium in the Neogaf forum. He is considered a verified developer there – many trust his information.
On Tuesday, March 10, he shared an image with the forum users. It shows a pigeon carrying a letter. This letter is addressed to “M. Cerny” – Mark Cerny is working as an architect on the PS5.
The message that is to be conveyed with this letter is a riddle. However, the forum users eagerly worked on decoding it and seem to have found a solution.
PS5 with at least 11 TeraFLOPS?
What is behind the riddle? The rhyme scheme and the number of Coos are supposed to provide clues about the graphic performance of the PlayStation 5, the users in the forum believe. Their solution looks like this:
The PS5 supposedly has a graphics card with 11.06 TeraFLOPS, 52 Compute Units, and clocks at 1.743 MHz.
The image shows 52 Coos, which are meant to represent the Compute Units.
As Spieltimes.com reports, AMD’s RDNA2 architecture also achieves speeds of up to 2.0 GHz. If this number is reached, performance could rise to over 13 TeraFLOPS.
Behind the address on the letter, where one is to reach M. Cerny, users want to recognize further hardware data. The 16 and the 512 are supposed to define the RAM, i.e., the working memory.
It is assumed that there are 16 GB of RAM working with a bandwidth of 512 GB per second.
A FLOP describes how many floating point calculations (additions and subtractions) the processor performs per second. “Tera” is a computing prefix, therefore we are in the range of TeraFLOPs, which corresponds to 10 to the power of 12, thus a huge number: about one trillion Flops.
In simple terms: The larger the number, the more powerful the computer or console, as the system can perform more calculations per second.
Is that all? Further cryptic hints lead fans to conclude that this may not reflect the full performance of the PS5. The user o’dium writes
“The pigeon is merely flying at a lower height than usual due to bad weather. When the weather clears, it will fly at least 100 to 150 feet higher. Just so you know.
But it is important to know …
It still remains a pigeon.
Forum users suspect that the detected 1743 MHz could possibly be increased by 100 or 150, raising it to around 1900 MHz. Allegedly, the price of the PS5 is a problem.
However, keep in mind that these are not official statements from Sony.
How many TeraFLOPS are there in the Xbox Series X?
This is known: In the Xbox Series X, a performance of the AMD graphics card is expected at 12 TeraFLOPS.
The question now is how exactly the PS5 will clock and what TeraFLOPS can be achieved. Only then will we know exactly which console is truly stronger in this area.
For comparison:
- The PS4 Pro offers about 4.2 TeraFLOPS
- The Xbox One X offers about 6 TeraFLOPS
You can find the most important information about Sony’s PlayStation 5 here
