PS5 Pro: Leak reveals all the specs of the new console

It’s no longer a secret that Sony is working on a new, more powerful console. After a leak in mid-March revealed many details about the PS5 Pro, a new leak has now revealed all of the console’s specs. These include a significantly faster GPU and PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR).

PS5 Pro leak reveals details about the console

The PS5 Pro is coming. Sony is currently turning to developers to complete games for the more powerful console over the summer, with a focus on improved ray tracing performance, according to a report by The Verge. According to the magazine, it has an internal Sony document that reveals all the specifications of the Pro console.

The aim of the PS5 Pro is to render games with ray tracing effects faster or to allow higher frame rates and resolutions in certain titles. Games that make use of the console’s new capabilities will be given a “PS5 Pro Enhanced” label.

The console’s GPU is said to be around 45 percent faster than that of the normal PlayStation 5, according to the internal document. Thanks to faster memory, performance in games should be significantly increased. The ray tracing architecture, on the other hand, is said to be around three times faster.

In terms of the CPU, however, the console will be based on the same chip as the normal PS5 model, which will continue to be sold. However, with slightly higher clock rates. The AMD Ryzen chip with eight Zen 2 performance cores should clock at up to 3.5 GHz, but offer a special mode that reaches 3.85 GHz.

In standard mode at 3.5 GHz, the PS5 Pro should work just like the PS5 and pass unused energy directly to the GPU. In the new High CPU Frequency mode, on the other hand, the CPU is to be given more power, while the performance of the GPU will be around one percent slower, but CPU performance will increase by almost 10 percent.

New memory and PSSR

The memory bandwidth of the PS5 Pro is also set to increase by 28 percent to 576 GB/s, with the increase likely to be even greater thanks to improved efficiency. Games could now enjoy an additional 1.2 GB of system memory.

This is all useful for the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaling process, which, like NVIDIA’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR, works on an AI basis and is intended to improve the frame rates and image quality of console games.

With a machine learning performance of 300 TOPS, the PS5 Pro is even faster than an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060. PSSR uses around 250 MB of memory, which is why the additional memory is so important. Approximately 2ms latency is added when upscaling from 1080p to 4K, but even 8K resolutions are to be realized.

So if the developers go full throttle over the summer, the PS5 Pro could still reach retailers for the 2024 Christmas season – presumably in November. In any case, we are excited.