Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has confirmed that current specs and efficiency leaks surrounding the rumored PlayStation 5 Professional are actual. Henderson studies that the supply materials of those new leaks got here from documentation leaked from a PlayStation developer portal despatched out to third-party builders this week. The leak Tom Henderson refers to states that the PS5 Professional will function 45% greater rendering efficiency and two to 4 occasions the RT efficiency of the outgoing PlayStation 5. Henderson additionally studies that the PS5 Professional will launch later this yr in the course of the vacation season.
As with all leaks, take them with a grain of salt. Nonetheless, Henderson is a broadly identified chief within the trade and has a purportedly correct observe document. Because of this, it is protected to imagine these PS5 Professional rumors are most likely respectable.
As beforehand talked about, the leak unveiled large efficiency upgrades for the PS5 Professional, yielding a forty five% sooner rendering price than the PS5 and as much as a 4x efficiency improve for ray tracing. To make these efficiency enhancements occur, unknown {hardware} upgrades will give the PS5 Professional a powerful 33.5 TFLOPs of FP16 efficiency—over triple that of the PS5.
One {hardware} improve that the leaker did find out about is the mixing of an AI accelerator (or NPU) that can help 300 TOPS of 8-bit computation. This AI accelerator will reportedly drive Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision Upscaling (PSSR), an AI-based upscaling answer much like DLSS and XeSS that can debut with the PS5 Professional.
The efficiency upgrades Sony is placing contained in the PS5 Professional are immersive. Its sky-high graphical upgrades virtually verify that Sony will likely be leaping ship from RDNA 1 to probably RDNA 4 as a result of tremendous immersive ray tracing efficiency for the PS5 Professional.
Henderson states that Sony’s aim with the PS5 Professional is to rectify particular efficiency points with the PS5 at 4K resolutions. In video games the place the PS5 can not obtain a stable 60 FPS, the PS5 Professional ought to give you the option to take action with none issues. The PS5 Professional will purportedly do that with its mixture of superior graphics {hardware} and Sony’s new PSSR AI-based upscaling — providing easy 4K efficiency and 8K gaming by means of aggressive upscaling.
As talked about, if Henderson’s launch date is respectable, the PS5 Professional will likely be unveiled later this yr in the course of the vacation season.