A brand new PlayStation 5 Professional leak shines much more gentle on the upgraded CPU, improved ray tracing, and different enhancements we will count on with Sony’s long-awaited successor to the PS5 console. Better of all, the PS5 Professional sounds as if it might hit shops by the tip of this 12 months.
The Verge reported yesterday (April 15) that it had obtained a full spec checklist for the PS5 Professional, with the checklist echoing leaked PS5 Professional specs that leaked final month. Sources conversant in Sony’s plans advised the outlet Sony is already asking builders to make sure their video games are appropriate with the upcoming PS5 Professional, highlighting a deal with the console’s bettering ray tracing capabilities.
As beforehand rumored, Sony is reportedly calling the PS5 Professional “ Undertaking Trinity” internally, which is hardly a shock given the corporate’s historical past of Matrix-themed codenames for its consoles. (The PS4 Professional was “Neo” and the unique PlayStation VR was “Morpheus.”)
When it comes to specs, the largest PS5 Professional improve seems to be the considerably improved GPU that allows improved ray tracing and Sony’s new PSSR upscaling resolution supported by machine studying. (Extra on that in a bit.) GPU rendering ought to be “about 45 p.c sooner than customary PlayStation 5,” in keeping with alleged paperwork concerning the console.
in the identical paperwork, Sony boasts about utilizing a “extra highly effective ray tracing structure” within the PS5 Professional able to speeds as much as thrice higher than the usual PS5.
Sony is reportedly encouraging builders to make use of extra GPU-intensive results like ray tracing in future video games to totally reap the benefits of the PS5 Professional’s revamped {hardware}, which might earn these video games a PS5 Professional Enhanced label.
| Row 0 – Cell 0 | PS5 | PS5 Professional (Rumored) |
| CPU | 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (Variable Frequency) | 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.85GHz (Variable Frequency) |
| Reminiscence bandwidth | 448GB/s | 576GB/s |
| System reminiscence out there for video games | 12.5GB | 13.7GB |
For the CPU, Sony is sticking with the identical processor as the usual PS5, however with a brand new mode that enables it to be overclocked to three.85 GHz — a ten% improve in comparison with the PS5’s 3.5GHz. Nonetheless, it looks as if this mode is activated by a sport’s wants somewhat than gamers themselves as Sony plans to supply builders the choice to decide on between a “customary mode” at 3.5GHz or the “excessive CPU frequency mode” at 3.85GHz.
The PS5 Professional will even see enhancements to system reminiscence speeds and bandwidth. In response to the Verge, the PS5 Professional’s system reminiscence runs at 576 GB/s, which is a 28% improve over the usual PS5, and video games can use as much as 13.7 GB of system reminiscence in comparison with the usual PS5’s restrict of 12.5 GB. The PS5 Professional additionally comes with “customized structure for machine studying” and helps 300TOPS of 8-bit computation.
That ought to all be helpful for Sony’s new PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision (PSSR) system, an upscaling resolution just like Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR to spice up body charges and picture high quality. Providing “inputs are fairly just like DLSS or FSR” and full HDR help, PSSR will use about 250MB of reminiscence and introduce round 2ms of latency when upscaling 1080p to 4K. Sony remains to be working to help resolutions as much as 8K and enhance latency sooner or later.
The PS5 Professional is predicted to launch by the 2024 vacation season, and we might see an “enhanced” library of present video games debuting together with it. Sony reportedly plans to proceed promoting the usual PS5 even after the Professional mannequin’s launch.