Not a week goes by without there being a new leak or rumor regarding one of the next video game consoles. This time it concerns the PS5 Pro.
After the Nintendo Switch 2 and the next Xbox, the PS5 Pro finds itself in the spotlight with a new series of leaks. Last year, alleged specs leaked, revealing details about the GPU, CPU, and memory. And to add another layer, a new video from YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead, known for his revelations and information, and with to date more than 171,000 subscribers on his channel, has corroborated some of these specifications.
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What to expect with the PS5 Pro?
As reported by the wccftech site, we are talking in particular about an eight-core Zen 2 processor operating around 4 GHz, a custom RDNA 3 GPU comprising 60 calculation units, oscillating between 2500 and 2800 MHz or even 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 18,000 MT/s on a 256-bit bus. Another interesting detail from the new video is that AMD would expect a launch of the PS5 Pro for the 2024 holidays… Obviously, and as always, all this should be taken with a grain of salt.
In his video, Moore's Law is Dead also talks about the supposed price of the PS5 Pro, which could be around $500 for a model without a disc drive. According to the YouTuber, the manufacturing price of this Pro model is not significantly higher than the manufacturing cost of the current PS5 model. “From what I see here I still mean just 16GB of RAM, not even 20GB, so they can go for the cheapest RAM costs probably lower than when the PS5 launched”.
Further he adds “I don't see anything in this console that would make the manufacturing price at the end of this year higher than the manufacturing price of a PS5 in 2020. Not drastically more, maybe a little more, but not by much drastic.”
And in practice, what does that look like?
In practice, this would mean that the console is capable of managing a lot of information in parallel thanks to its 8 processing units. Currently, AMD has released its most recent processors based on the Zen 4 architecture. Therefore, Sony's next console could feature a processor that is technologically two generations behind. However, this does not necessarily imply a compromise in performance. This decision could be motivated by financial considerations.
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For the GPU, the PS5 Pro would be at the forefront in terms of graphics architecture, since the RDNA 4 is not expected before this year and this would be a hybrid version, which we could qualify as RDNA 3.5 to schematize. A good big dose of power on the program. Finally, when it comes to RAM, the bandwidth would be higher. The fluidity in play would therefore be greater. We would therefore be entitled to a nice power gap with the PS5.