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PS5 Pro and the new Xbox Series will probably be different than you hope
The rumor mill surrounding the supposedly upcoming PS5 Pro, which has still not been officially announced, is becoming increasingly dense.
Now the YouTube channel Digital Foundry has received new information about the PS5 upgrade.
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But be careful: This is not an official announcement or confirmed information.
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What's new? As Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter describes in a new podcast episode, the PS5 Pro will have more than 30 WGP (Work Group Processors) and up to 36.1 teraflops. According to his own information, he takes this from Sony's developer portal. So 4K and 60 FPS would probably no longer be a problem.
For comparison: the conventional PS5 has 18 WGP, which enables 10.23 teraflops. This suggests that the PS5 Pro could be around three times faster than its predecessor.
So far, however, several sources claim that the increase in performance is limited to 45 percent.
The clock speed of the PS5 Pro's RDNA 3 GPU is said to increase to 2.35 GHz from the previous 2.23 GHz.
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Larger caches: In addition to new information about the clock speed, Digital Foundry has also announced that the cache will be partially doubled.
Accordingly, the GL2 cache should remain the same at 4 MB, but the GL1 cache will be increased from 128 KB to 256 KB. The doubling also applies to the GL0V cache, which is to be increased from 16 KB to 32 KB.
Summarized: Together with information that was already leaked a few months ago, we now have almost all the technical information about the PS5 Pro that we can gather in advance.
Although these have not been officially confirmed, they have already been published by several independent sources.
| PS5 Pro (speculated specs) | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing node | TSMC 4nm (N4) |
| CPU | Zen 2 | 8C/16T | 3.85GHz |
| GPU | RDNA | up to 30 workgroup processors up to 60 Compute Units | 3,584 – 3,840 shaders | 2.35 GHz clock frequency |
| GPU caches | GL1 cache: 256 KiB GL2 cache: 4 MiB GL0V cache: 32 KiB |
| NPU (AI processor) | XDNA/XDNA2 |
| System memory | 16 GiByte GDDR6 | 18Gbps | 576GB/s |
| Performance | 14.3 to 18.05 teraflops or 28.6 to 36.1 teraflops (with dual-issue RDNA 3) |
When will the PS5 Pro be released? So far, through leaks from Moore's Law is Dead or The Verge, for example, all we know is that Sony is planning a release around the Christmas season.
Previous rumors had already indicated September as a possible period. That now seems to be out of the question. However, we won't know for sure until Sony makes the PS5 Pro official.