A major leak allegedly reveals the technical specifications of the PS5 Pro. MeinMMO explains what is behind the leak regarding the PS5 Pro. Especially PC gamers are likely to benefit in the long run if AMD does not only use its technology in the new PS5.
Where does the leak come from? The well-known leaker Tom Henderson reported on InsiderGaming about the possible leak of the technical specs of the PS5 Pro. Tom Henderson is considered very reliable when it comes to leaks. However, you should take the mentioned data with caution.
The leak in detail:
- Memory: 576 GB/s (18GT/s). In comparison, the regular PS5 only offered 448 GB/s (14 GT/s).
- CPU: 3.85 GHz, 10% more performance when using the High CPU Frequency Mode
- GPU: 33.5 Teraflops
- 2-3 times better ray-tracing performance
- Support for resolutions up to 8K is planned for future SDK versions
- AI accelerator that supports 300 TOPS for 8-bit calculations / 67 TFLOPS for 16-bit floating-point calculations
- PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling)
Where are the biggest changes? Most changes actually occur in the graphics chip. While the performance of the CPU remains almost identical, aside from the High CPU Frequency Mode, the performance of the GPU is supposed to increase significantly. After all, we are talking about an additional performance of up to 45%.
According to another leak, a new Zen-4 processor and RDNA3 graphics are supposed to be installed in the PS5 Pro. AMD is already using Zen 4 in its very successful Ryzen processors of the 7000 series.
What is PSSR? The graphics chip is supposed to offer PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling). This is an upscaling and anti-aliasing technology that is supposed to provide a dedicated architecture for machine learning and an AI accelerator. This is reminiscent of AMD’s FSR or NVIDIA’s DLSS, but is intended to be a standalone technology. Simply put, it calculates games in low resolution and then upscales them to full resolution. This saves processing power and especially older graphics cards benefit from upscaling.
The PS5 leak is also exciting for PC gamers
What does this have to do with PCs? PC gamers could benefit from this upgrade in the long run. If AMD really manages to significantly increase ray-tracing performance on its chips, then players who currently have an AMD graphics card in their computers could benefit from this as well. So far, NVIDIA has always been ahead of AMD in performance with ray tracing activated.
The hardware in consoles is only partially comparable to the hardware in gaming PCs, but AMD relies on the same architecture, namely RDNA 2, for both the PS5 and RX 6000 series graphics cards. Consoles also have the advantage that the individual components are perfectly matched to each other.
For graphics cards, we have now reached the RDNA3 architecture. Here, AMD is using modular chiplets for graphics cards for the first time. Whether the new PS5 Pro will also use a modular chip like the RX 7000 models is still unknown. Both AMD and Sony are tight-lipped about this. It is also unknown whether AMD is already working on a completely new architecture that it will specifically adapt for a PS5.
If AMD presents major changes now, it could also mean good news for PC gamers looking to buy an AMD graphics card in the future. Because major and successful changes in graphics architecture will eventually also reach PCs. And a significantly improved ray-tracing performance is likely to greatly reduce the gap to NVIDIA.
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