A wave of rumors has engulfed Sony’s premiere fish tail-shaped console, with hypothesis centering on an upcoming PS5 Professional subsequent yr with a beefed-up CPU and GPU supposed to assist it swim above any of the opposite distinguished consoles at present in the marketplace.
An nameless consumer on the ResetEra forums and extra of us on Twitter claimed the PS5 Professional is internally dubbed Mission “Viola.” The upcoming console would nonetheless use the identical AMD Zen2 CPU, nevertheless it’s been overclocked to 4.4 GHz in comparison with 3.5 GHz. The extra dramatic change is on the GPU aspect, the place the APU will get entry to the AMD RDNA3 structure. Extra particularly, it’s primarily RDNA3 however having access to the accelerated ray tracing from RDNA4. WCCFTech first reported on the brand new slew of particulars for the upcoming console replace.
Your mileage will—and may—range on how correct any of those rumors are, however they do come throughout an attention-grabbing time. InsiderGaming’s Tom Henderson, who first dropped rumors of the PS5 Slim, tweeted Monday that Sony is already anticipating that these specs have leaked for the reason that firm handed out growth kits to third-party builders. The rumors declare there’s a Sept. 2024 reveal deliberate for a full launch someday later within the yr, seemingly in November.
The so-called “trinity” of design philosophy on this supposed PS5 Professional is centered on ray tracing enhancements, quick storage, and upscaling. The upscaling enhancements are as a consequence of AMD’s XDNA2 AI core, which the corporate revealed final week. The rumors level to the PS5 sustaining the identical 15GB of G6 reminiscence, however it’s going to obtain a lift in pace from 14 to 18 Gbps.
All that’s to say, if the specs rumors are true, the PS5 Professional might be a marginal enchancment over the three-year-old console, sufficient to make it a good deal extra highly effective than the Xbox Series X. Accelerated ray tracing enhancements certain are good, and it might be able to help increased body charges at 4K. We nonetheless don’t know specifics concerning the upcoming console’s GPU clock, its storage capability, or—most significantly—its value.
When you’ve bought one of many new, slimmer PlayStation 5 under the Christmas tree, you’re already getting a bit bit extra inside space for storing together with the skinnier body—1 TB in comparison with 825 GB, to be particular. There’s no point out within the rumors of what number of terabytes the Professional mannequin can have, however it might be very good to see a bump from 1.5 TB to 2 TB, contemplating simply how massive trendy video games have grow to be. Sony launched the PlayStation 4 Pro in 2016 similtaneously the PlayStation 4 Slim, that includes higher CPU and GPU efficiency over the unique console.
It additionally expanded base storage choices from 500 GB to an ordinary 1 TB HDD and added help for as much as 4K resolutions. Hell, whereas we’re at it, possibly Sony can change the general design of the PS5 so it’s not such a ache to put it down horizontally.
The supposed “Viola” mannequin can be by far the extra highly effective of the consoles out there between Microsoft and Sony. Nonetheless, it’s an open query whether or not Microsoft will observe go well with on any mid-gen console refresh.
Inner information level to Xbox working on two updated Xbox Series S fashions known as “Sebile” and “Ellewood” that might replace the system’s storage and WiFi capabilities. Nonetheless, Phil Spencer, the top of Xbox, advised Eurogamer earlier this yr that there’s all the time the issue that consoles will lag behind the most recent specs merely due to their lengthy growth cycles.
So maybe Microsoft has cooled off on making an attempt to match the most recent {hardware}, particularly when Spencer recently said the corporate is spending greater than $1 billion a yr supporting third-party video games on Sport Move. Xbox’s CFO Tim Stuart overtly talked about sticking Game Pass on every platform under the sun, together with Nintendo’s and Sony’s consoles.
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