A more powerful PlayStation 5 Pro keeps popping up in the rumor mill. Now all sorts of technical details about the new platform have apparently become public.
If you’re thinking about getting a PlayStation 5, the wait might be worth it. After Sony introduced and put the revised PlayStation 5 Slim on sale last year, the more powerful PlayStation 5 Pro is apparently due to be released this year before Sony devotes itself to the new generation of consoles with a PlayStation 6.
Most recently via the YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead All sorts of technical specifications about the as yet unannounced PS5 Pro have been leaked – and these apparently seem to be true. At least that’s what the well-informed and very well-connected insider Tom Henderson now says via Insider Gaming, who has verified this using his own sources.
The documentation about the PS5 Pro that was leaked via YouTube was published via a PlayStation developer portal over the course of this week and was made accessible to a larger group of third-party developers so that they can prepare for the upcoming release of the more powerful console. The release of the new console is still planned for autumn 2024.
The PS5 Pro, which is being developed internally under the code name “Trinity”, is said to offer more consistent FPS rates in 4K gaming, as well as a new performance mode for 8K resolutions and improved ray tracing. According to the new leaks about the specifications, the PS5 Pro will be able to offer around 45 percent faster rendering compared to the previous PlayStation 5.
The ray tracing capacity is two to three times higher, in some cases even four times higher. Furthermore, the PS5 Pro has 33.5 teraflops, will then support 8K resolutions in future SDK versions for developers and uses PSSR for upscaling and anti-aliasing; The latter stands for PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling.
A custom machine learning architecture and the use of an AI accelerator with support of 300 TOPS (8-bit computation) and 67 TFLOPS (16-bit floating point) round off the current rumors.
Henderson has the documentation from the developer portal, but these cannot be made public. PS5 Pro dev kits should have been available to Sony first-party developers since September 2023, and third-party studios would have received them in January 2024. In spring 2024 there will now be test kits that should be identical to the final product.
The release in autumn 2024 could apparently only be shaken by the fact that there are hardly any new major first-party titles from Sony; There is still a residual risk that the PS5 Pro will appear later. We will of course keep you updated on further developments.
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