The rumors about the PS5 Pro They are getting stronger. A few days ago, we told you about the leak of the supposed technical characteristics of the next variant of the Sony console. While on this occasion some clues about its possible price have come to light.
As on the previous occasion, the information has been revealed in a YouTube live from Moore’s Law Is Dead. As always, this is information that should be taken with a grain of salt, but it raises a very interesting scenario.
Without a doubt, the big question regarding this matter is: How much will the PS5 Pro cost? Part of the answer would lie in the hardware choice that Sony would have made for this new model. If the rumors are correct, the variant that would hit the market before the end of the year would seek to offer an increase in performance without translating into a too high sales price.
According to Tom, Moore’s Law Is DeadSony has not yet defined the final price of the PS5 Pro. The aforementioned estimates that the company will wait for Xbox announcements and the evolution of PlayStation 5 sales during the summer, before closing the sum that buyers will have to pay by the device.
In his view, the PS5 Pro’s specs — especially related to RAM, motherboard, and power management — should be an indication that its price might not stray too far from what we’re already currently seeing on the market. console catalog.
“I’m not seeing anything on this console that really makes the price [de fabricarla] by the end of the year it will be more expensive than what it cost to make the PS5 in 2020,” he asserted. Thus, he was encouraged to predict that, following the PS5 Slim strategy, Sony could launch the PS5 Pro without a Blu-ray drive for $499. While the version with a disc reader could cost between 550 and 600 dollars
Will the PS5 Pro cost just $500?
If the PS5 Pro really will have a starting price of $500, the other big question is what will happen to the current model. Let us remember that the PS5 Slim with a disc tray is sold for $499, while the one without said unit is sold for $449. The Blu-ray reader, meanwhile, is sold separately for $79.99.
In Moore’s Law Is Dead They believe that if Sony finally releases the PS5 Pro this year, The Slim variant would receive a significant price cut which could leave the digital version at only $400. It will be interesting to see if this comes to fruition.
Regarding specifications, rumors suggest that the PS5 Pro will include an 8-core AMD processor (Zen 2) developed under a 4-nanometer process. The clock speed is rumored to be up to 4.4 GHz, compared to the PS5’s up to 3.5 GHz. Although this has not been corroborated.
As for the GPU, it is speculated that the PS5 Pro would incorporate a model based on RDNA 3. It would supposedly include 60 computing units, but Sony would limit them to 56 in the final version of the console. While with regard to RAM, the already known 16 GB (GDDR6) on a 256-bit memory bus would be maintained.
Let’s not forget that the next variant of the console would also debut a neural processing unit, or NPU. It would be in charge of running Sony’s proprietary solution to scale game graphics, in the NVIDIA DLSS style.
With increasingly stronger rumors about its possible launch, the PS5 Pro is becoming one of the most hyped devices of 2024. According to previous leaks, AMD believes that Sony could launch the console just before the end of the year holidays. We will continue to pay attention to more news.
