According to several rumors, the PS5 Pro will arrive in 2024 on our shelves. While Sony has never confirmed its existence, the very serious media The Verge got their hands on the technical sheet for this console codenamed Trinity.
A much more powerful GPU and CPU
If this information should be taken with a grain of salt, The Verge explains that Sony plans a release for the end of 2024. The media indicates that the manufacturer asks developers that their games are compatible with the PS5 Pro, particularly in terms of ray tracing. The console would feature a more powerful GPU and a faster CPU. Some titles would benefit from a higher refresh rate.
The studios that “bring significant improvements” using more advanced graphics functions such as ray tracing, for example, would benefit from the label “PS5 Enhanced”.
The PS5 Pro GPU would be “about 45% faster than that” of the current version. It would use faster system memory to improve ray tracing, with an architecture that is up to three times faster than the classic PS5.
As for the CPU, it would be the same as that of the current PS5, but with a new mode which improves performance: 3.85 GHz for the PS5 Pro instead of 3.5 GHz, or 10% more. Developers would have the choice between the two modes for their games. It should be noted, however, that this new mode allocates less power to the GPU, which is downclocked by approximately 1.5%. According to Sony, performance would drop by around 1%.
Another improvement, the PS5 Pro would have system memory of up to 576 GB/s compared to 448 GB/s for the PS5, an increase of 28%. “Bandwidth increase could exceed 28%”specifies Sony in documents.
The equivalent of Nvidia’s DLSS would be there
Studios would be entitled to access to 13.7 GB of overall system memory instead of 12.5 GB for the current PS5. What “can be useful” for new PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) support, the answer to Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR which improves refresh rate and image quality. The PS5 Pro would have a “custom architecture for machine learning”which supports 300 TOPS of 8-bit calculation.
Finally, the PS5 Pro would benefit from full HDR support with this PSSR solution. There would be around 2ms of latency when upscaling a 1080p image to 4K, and the manufacturer would be working on supporting resolutions up to 8K with improved latency.
When the PS5 Pro is released, Sony should continue to sell the standard version.