I hope you’re ready for a delicious statistics sandwich, because the latest PS5Pro The leak points to some truly surprising figures. If these new rumors are true, which seems likely, given the strength of the source, PlayStation fans should book their tickets for that dizzyingly fast train, in a hurry.
According to pixel counting wizards Digital Foundry (via the team’s weekly post announcing their DF Weekly module on eurogamer), the long-rumored PS5 Pro will get a 227% teraflop boost over the OG PS5. If true, that’s a ridiculous increase in power, as this incredible number comes from Sony’s developer portal. For context, this new speculation says the upgraded console will have 33.5 Tflops compared to 10.23 teraflops on both the 2020 and last year launch models. PS5 thin.
There is a pretty important caveat according to industry veteran Richard Leadbetter, however. “The same Sony documents suggest only an additional 45 percent of what is real,” reports DF’s Leadbitter. “Part of the explanation comes from the RDNA 3 architecture with its dual-cast FP32 support, which doubles the number of instructions processed, but typically does not double gaming performance.”
The big conclusion? The figure published in the headline regarding the increase in computing power seems staggering, to be sure, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ll start seeing PS5 Pro games running in native 4K (3840 x 2160) at 120 frames per second or higher. .
There are a ton of figures to sift through in Leadbetter’s report, so let me try to cut to the chase in his brilliant, if mind-boggling writing. To quote a gaming journalist who can basically analyze frame rate statistics like they were checking green digits in The Matrix, a “67 percent increase in compute units only translates into 45 percent additional performance” . On that note, he’d suggest that Rich and I have slightly different definitions of the word “only,” because it still seems like a huge performance boost for a speculated console that simply represents a mid-gen upgrade, rather than a full one. generational leap to the equally rumored PS6.
Sensibly, Rich also claims that we should probably all cool our planes and wait until the PS5 Pro is available before haggling over the numbers and their real-world in-game wins. And that’s the stance I think most reasonable-minded PlayStation gamers will take as we all wait for Sony’s next console to be, you know, officially announced.
The professional leagues
Moving away from Tflops, the massive GPU upgrade proposed with the PS5 Pro also comes down to the cache structure of how its APU works. This is super technical, but be patient. Sony’s latest leaks suggest that the current Pro and PS5’s 4MB L2 cache will remain the same, but more importantly, the L0 and L1 caches will double from 16KB to 32KB and 128KB. to 256 KB respectively. What does this mean in terms of squeezing the most graphical goodness out of the best PS5 games? Ray tracing performance should receive a big improvement.
In an age where the physical grunt of gaming hardware is becoming less and less important in the PC space thanks to AI super-sampling methods like Nvidia DLSS, it’s also encouraging that these latest leaks suggest that the PS5 Pro will benefit from a similar form of technology. . Sony’s documents point to DirectX12 Ultimate features that didn’t make the cut for PS5, but will now take the form of “PSSR enhancement” in the words of Leadbitter in the case of the Pro. In fact, the respected journalist suggests that ” “The expansion of PSSR could be as transformative for Sony as it has been for Nvidia DLSS.”
If all of the above is true, we could be looking at a new PlayStation that is such a powerful system that uses machine learning techniques so effectively that the rumored PS6 2027 release date no longer seems like a huge hardship to bear.
As someone who primarily plays my favorite titles on one of the best gaming PCs, I’m all for major hardware upgrades whenever they become available. At the time of writing, the PS5 Pro looks like an incredibly tasty piece of hardware. Now all you have to do is run GTA 6 at 60 fps.
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