The PS5 Pro is official. Sony just announced a more powerful PS5 console during a special technical presentation. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console, says the PS5 Pro improves on the original console in three key ways: a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and custom AI-driven upscaling, according to ”theverge.com” .
The PS5 Pro will launch on November 7th, priced at $699.99 (aprox. 634 Euro), and it looks similar to the slim version of the PS5. It has three stripes down the side, and it doesn’t come with a disc drive. You’ll be able to purchase a 4K Blu-ray disc drive separately.
“It’s the most powerful console we’ve ever built,” says Cerny. The hardware upgrades inside will result in 45 percent faster rendering, according to Cerny, and should improve the detail of certain games and frame rates. One of the key reasons for the PS5 Pro is to allow PS5 Pro players to not have to choose performance modes over fidelity ones. “Players are choosing performance about three-quarters of the time,” says Cerny.
Sony has upgraded the GPU inside the PS5 Pro with 67 percent more compute units than the current PS5 console, and it has 28 percent faster memory, too. That all adds up to the 45 percent faster rendering of games and the ability to improve frame rates in titles without having to lose visual fidelity.
This extra power should also improve ray-traced games, with Sony suggesting that developers will be able to allow “the rays to be cast at double, and at times triple, the speeds of the current PS5 console.”
The PS5 Pro also includes Sony’s new AI-powered PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) feature, which is essentially an upscaling technique similar to Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR to improve frame rates and image quality for PlayStation games. This custom PSSR upscaling is designed to replace a game’s existing temporal anti-aliasing or upsampling implementation.
Sony is also including a PS5 Pro “Game Boost” option, which will apply to more than 8,500 backward-compatible PS4 games for the PS5 Pro. “This feature may stabilize or improve the performance of supported PS4 and PS5 games,” says Hideaki Nishino, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s platform business group.
The PS5 Pro will also support Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, VRR, and 8K resolutions and it comes with a larger 2TB solid-state (SSD) drive.
The first PS5 Pro Enhanced games will include Alan Wake 2, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Demon’s Souls, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Gran Turismo 7, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, The Crew Motorfest, The First Descendant, and The Last of Us Part II Remastered.
– Watch the PlayStation 5 Pro Console – Reveal Trailer here (Content is hosted by a third party – youtube.com/playstation – viewing time 1:04)
– Watch the PS5 Pro Technical Presentation hosted by Mark Cerny here (Content is hosted by a third party – youtube.com/playstation – viewing time 9:40)
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