Leak: PS5 Pro coming at the end of the year and will be massively faster than the PS5
18/3/2024
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According to the latest rumours, the Playstation 5 Pro delivers up to four times more ray tracing performance. Sony is also working on an upscaling technology similar to Nvidia's DLSS.
According to rumours, the PS5 Pro could be released at the end of the year. The timing of the interim console upgrade would be perfect. After all, the Playstation 5 is already four years old - and the PS4 Pro was released three years after the original PS4.
The gaming blog Insider Gaming and tech Youtuber Moores Law is Dead have seen and reviewed leaked documents on the hardware specifications of the PS5 Pro. According to the documents, the console is expected to make a massive leap in performance compared to the current PS5.
Faster ray tracing, upscaling and 8K
The GPU is expected to deliver 33.5 teraflops. This corresponds to 45 per cent more rendering performance compared to the PS5. Ray tracing will even be two to four times faster. The realistic calculation of rays of light is particularly performance-intensive and is only offered in combination with 30 FPS in most Playstation games. However, the Playstation theoretically supports up to 120 FPS.
"Trinity", as the PS5 Pro is known internally, will also have an 8K performance mode. However, this will only be added in later SDK versions - the development software. This is made possible by a new upscaling technology called Playstation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling, or PSSR for short. It is Sony's answer to Nvidia's DLSS or AMD's FSR. In a direct comparison in the documentation, upscaled games look significantly better with PSSR than with FSR. The Playstation 5 is based on AMD's RDNA architecture.
The CPU remains the same, but the PS5 Pro has a turbo mode that is supposed to deliver ten per cent more performance. According to the leaks, the 16 gigabytes of GDDR6 system memory will be accelerated from 14 to 18 GT/s.
The devkits have been in circulation since September 2023, and the final version has even been available since 2024. This makes the possible release date at the end of the year even more plausible. Like the PS5 Slim, the console will not have a Blu-ray drive. However, one can be purchased if required.
"GTA VI" as a selling point for the PS5 Pro?
It remains to be seen how great the benefits of a more powerful PS5 will be. Many Playstation games are still being released on the 11-year-old PS4. As a result, only a few games utilise the performance limits of the current PS5. On the other hand, there are always titles such as "Final Fantasy VII Rebirth" or "Rise of the Ronin" that have several graphics modes, which are associated with compromises. For example, the performance mode in the latest "Final Fantasy" looks significantly worse than the graphics mode. A faster PS5 Pro could counteract this.
2025 will also see the release of "GTA VI", a game that is likely to be extremely hardware-hungry due to its huge game world and detailed graphics. The PS5 Pro would therefore be the perfect platform for Rockstar's gangster epic until the game is also released for PC.
Nothing is yet known about the price of the PS5 Pro.
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