September 10, 2024 11:25:12 AM
Himanshu Sharma
Sony has finally officially announced its new console after months of leaks and rumors The PS5 Pro is a mid-generation upgrade to the current hardware. That comprises of confirmed price, date of release, specific features, absence of a disc drive, and other specifics.
It’s not unheard of as Sony brought a new console to the market in the last generation called the PS4 Pro which was designed with the purpose of popularizing 4K gaming. PS5 Pro extends that concept, this console will be designed to deliver a near-uniform 4K/60fps (or better) performance. For this, PS5 Pro comes packed with some hardware and software enhancements over regular PS5 as listed below. Here is everything that you need to know or has been rumored so far regarding the PS5 Pro.
Fortunately, you won’t have much longer to wait for the PlayStation 5 Pro as it will be released on the 7th of November 2024. Preorder information will be out on September 26, 2024.
PS5 Pro Price:
This might be again at least a couple of years away from happening, and while it must still be a couple of years to go for the PS5 generation to conclude, Sony’s senior vice president Naomi Matsuoka has said that what she should strive to strike now is the ‘sweet spot’ of ‘profitability and sales’ as the so-called ‘hardware sell-through’ of the PS5 might already be on the decline. “In the future, PS5 will be in the final stage of its life cycle, so it is necessary to place more attention to achieving both sales and profitability,” Matsuoka shared in an interview in February. In the more recent past, Sony has admitted that it cannot hope to see upward sales movement of the PS5.
As expected, the PS5 Pro is going to cost more than the PlayStation 5 at large… It will come at the price of $700 in the US; other international markets will see prices of £700, €800, and ¥119,980.
No disc drive:
The PS5 Pro has no disc drive but can accommodate the PS5 disc-drive accessory. Of course, the current owners of PS5 will have to add the official PS5 disc drive for $80 to be able to play their piles of physical games in PS5 Pro. The drive will also be necessary for playing physical movies. Physical movies are movies that are burnt into the disks as opposed to digital movies which have been downloaded into the disks.
Leaked PS5 Pro specs:
Of course, Sony did mention some of the overall major enhancements to the PS5 Pro but it never disclosed what is in the new console.
As stated earlier through leaks, the PS5 Pro will have a “High CPU Frequency Mode” wherein the PS5 CPU will purportedly be boosted by 10% to 3. 85Ghz. Digital Foundry also corroborated these claims and it posted a list of the reported PS5 Pro specs back in March:
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PS5 |
PS5 Pro |
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CPU Architecture/ Clock Speeds |
Eight core/16 Thread Zen 2 at 3.5GHz |
Eight core/16 Thread Zen 2 at 3.5GHz/3.85GHz |
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GPU Compute Units/ Architecture |
36 CUS, RDNA 2 |
60 CUs, RNDA 3 (TBC) |
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TFLOPs/GPU Clock Speed |
10.23TF/ 2.23GHz |
33.5TF/ 2.18GHz (TBC) |
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GDDR6 Memory |
16GB at 14Gbps |
16GB at 18Gbps |
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Memory Available For Games |
12.5GB |
13.7GB |
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Memory Interface/ Bandwidth |
256-bit/448GB/s |
256-bit/576GB/s |
PS5 Pro upgrades:
Sony announced on the PlayStation blog the “Big Three” upgrades of the PS5 Pro and, together, they report that it is nearly doubling the processing power of a standard PS5. There is also a dedicated GPU which has been enhanced and in terms of software Sony is bringing PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, an AI upscaling technology which is similar to Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR.
Upgraded GPU:
When it comes to the GPU enhancement in PS5 Pro, there is an increase in the console’s CU’s to 67% compared to the current PS5, and the memory is 28% faster; this results in up to 45% faster rendering of the games which makes the gaming to flow smoothly.
Advanced Ray Tracing:
”So we have included even more powerful ray tracing that yields more dynamic reflection and refraction of light they can be cast at double and even at times the speed of thrice of the current PS5 Consoles”.
AI-Driven Upscaling:
We are also bringing PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution which is basically an upscaling of AI technology that even with machine learning, provides super high-caliber image definition by adding high amounts of detail to them.
PS5 Pro Enhanced Games:
Likely, just like the case of the PS4 Pro and the PS5, the PS5 Pro will run all the games that the PS5 console will and will offer superior performance in general.
New games, as well as updated versions of games already released, are incorporating support for PS5 Pro, and when the big three studios are involved, the outcome can be rather spectacular With graphics that demonstrate Fidelity level of detail, but at double the frame rate,” Cerny said in the PS5 Pro livestream. "This goal of delivering almost Fidelity-like graphics at Performance frame rates has been achieved for a broad set of titles, including Marvel's Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank: As simple as that, Realms apart. In fact, with Ps5 Pro seeming to be nearly double the power of PS5.
Currently, there are 13 PS5 Pro Enhanced games that have been announced and some of them are from first-party and third-party games.
PS5 Pro design:
Many people has assumed that the PS5 Pro will be a different look that the current PS5 and the slimmer version. In the middle body, they created several stripe-like patterns and slightly increased the dimensions of the new model in terms of height and depth in order to enhance a higher level of performance as opposed to the original PS5.
What is in the box of PS5 Pro?
Our PS5 Pro model comes with a 2TB SSD, the DualSense controller as well as Astro’s Playroom pre-loaded. The Pro will not ship with a vertical stand; that will have to be bought as an extra.
PS5 Pro hardware compatibility:
According to Sony, the next-gen gaming console, the PS5 Pro, is compatible with the existing PS5 peripherals such as PlayStation VR2, PlayStation Portal, the DualSense Edge controller, The Access controller, Pulse Elite headset and the Pulse Explore earbuds. The latter suggest that the UI and the network services that users will be provided will also not differ from what is offered on PS5.