Sony is certainly engaged on a extra superior model of the PlayStation 5 that would characteristic a extra highly effective GPU that’s probably as much as thrice sooner for particular duties in comparison with present PS5 fashions.
YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead claims to have obtained a technical overview doc for the PS5 Professional, code-named Trinity, and Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has confirmed the leaked specs’ accuracy, which suggests a vacation 2024 launch window for the console.
The leaked technical doc mentions a number of the potential specs, together with 67 teraflops of 16-bit floating-point calculations, which interprets to round 33.5 teraflops of single-precision compute. It is a 45% rendering efficiency enhance over the usual PS5, which operates at 10.28 teraflops.
Now, evaluating teraflops between the 2 consoles doesn’t actually make sense as a result of architectural adjustments in AMD’s RDNA know-how. The PS5 Professional might probably transfer from a setup akin to an AMD Radeon RX 6700 to one thing nearer to a Radeon RX 7800 XT, providing improved ray tracing capabilities and as much as thrice the efficiency in some circumstances.
| Sony PlayStation 5 Professional | Sony PlayStation 5 | |
| CPU | AMD Zen 2 structure 8-cores, 16 threads at 3.5GHz / 3.85GHz | AMD Zen 2 structure 8-cores, 16 threads at 3.5GHz |
| Compute models | 60 CUs, RDNA 3 (unconfirmed) | 36 CUs, RDNA 2 |
| TFLOPs | 33.5TF | 10.23TF |
| GPU clock speeds | 2.18GHz (unconfirmed) | 2.23GHz |
| Reminiscence | 16GB GDDR6 at 18Gbps | 16GB GDDR6 at 14Gbps |
| Reminiscence interface | 256-bit/576GB/s | 256-bit/448GB/s |
Extra particulars from Henderson point out that the PS5 Professional may comply with the current PS5 redesign, with a removable disc drive and sooner system reminiscence operating at 576 GB/s, together with improved audio {hardware} able to processing extra results.
The Professional variant can also be rumored to share the identical CPU as the bottom PS5, however might embrace a “Excessive CPU Frequency Mode” that may enhance clocks as much as 3.85GHz, leading to a ten% efficiency improve. Nonetheless, activating this mode might barely throttle the GPU.
The leak additionally suggests the inclusion of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), a machine learning-based upscaling know-how much like Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR that probably helps upscaling to 8K resolutions and enhancing ray tracing efficiency on the PS5 Professional {hardware}. For a complete breakdown of the leaks, we advocate testing Digital Foundry’s video, which additionally confirms the validity of the leaks.
Whereas preliminary leaks have raised some skepticism, Henderson’s insights, indicating Sony’s first-party studios testing PS5 Professional dev kits since September and third events gaining entry in January, align with previous reports of a focused November 2024 launch for the PS5 Professional.
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