An exciting new leak regarding the PlayStation 5 Pro sheds light on the anticipated upgrades in Sony's forthcoming console. The leak hints at a significantly enhanced GPU and a slightly improved CPU, promising enhanced ray tracing capabilities, higher frame rates, and other enhancements.
In a recent development, a leak unveiled several specifications of the PS5 Pro, suggesting a 45% faster GPU rendering, substantial improvements in ray tracing, and the incorporation of Sony's innovative PSSR upscaling technology, driven by machine learning. While the high-end PS5 remains officially unconfirmed, this latest leak adds more weight to its existence.
The Verge reported obtaining a comprehensive list of specifications for the PS5 Pro, revealing that developers are being tasked with ensuring their games are compatible with the upcoming console, internally known as Trinity. The upgraded PS5 is expected to feature an overhauled GPU capable of supporting higher frame rates at increased resolutions, along with vastly improved ray tracing capabilities. Sony is reportedly encouraging developers to utilize more GPU-intensive effects like ray tracing in future games, which could earn a game a 'PS5 Pro Enhanced' label if it taps into the new console's technology. While the PS5 Pro shares the same CPU as the standard PS5, it introduces a new mode allowing the CPU to be overclocked to 3.85 GHz, providing a 10% boost, with the mode activated based on a game's requirements rather than user input.
Upgraded Hardware Details Leak
- Enhanced GPU performance
- Slightly improved CPU
- Introduction of PSSR upscaling to enhance frame rates and resolution
- Increased system memory speed
- Enhanced allocation of system memory for games
The PS5 Pro also brings improvements to system memory speeds and allocation capacity for games. The console's system memory operates at 576 GB/s, marking a 28% increase over the standard PS5, and games on the PS5 Pro can utilize up to 13.7 GB of system memory, compared to the standard PS5's limit of 12.5 GB. The leaked details suggest that these system memory enhancements will be instrumental in the console's PSSR upscaling technology, enhancing both FPS and resolution. The PS5 Pro is slated for a launch during the holiday season of 2024.
Following the PS5 Pro launch, new games are expected to leverage the console's enhanced performance capabilities. Speculations hint at a potential reveal of Ghost of Tsushima 2 in the near future.
The PlayStation gaming community can anticipate major releases in 2025, including titles like Death Stranding 2. If Sony continues its console release pattern seen in the previous PlayStation generation, the PS5 Pro might be the final Sony console before the subsequent generation's launch.