The leaked PlayStation 5 Professional specs have been verified and added to by the tech consultants at Digital Foundry, who additionally ship their prediction on how the unannounced console will run GTA 6.
This week, the PS5 Professional specs leak, additionally verified by IGN, revealed the ability of the console Sony reportedly plans to launch in the course of the fourth quarter of 2024.
The PS5 Professional CPU is claimed to be an identical to the usual PS5’s CPU however with a ‘Excessive CPU Frequency Mode’, which quantities to a ten% improve to three.85GHz. The GPU permits quicker rendering and better high quality ray tracing powered by 33.5 teraflops. The usual PS5 affords 10.28 teraflops. Nonetheless, a direct PS5 to PS5 Professional comparability would work out at round 10.28 vs 16 to 17 teraflops.
The discharge of the PS5 Professional is considered significantly attractive within the context of the 2025 launch of GTA 6, which is ready to spice up the online game market past developer Rockstar Video games and mother or father firm Take-Two.
However in line with Digital Foundry founder Wealthy Leadbetter, talking within the newest episode of DF Direct, the PS5 Professional’s CPU means GTA 6 will most likely run at 30fps, assuming GTA 6 runs at 30fps on the usual PS5. Given no GTA recreation has launched with a 60fps possibility, this one appears nailed on.
In accordance with Leadbetter, if GTA 6 runs at 30fps on PS5, it will run at 30fps on PS5 Professional barring some type of programming miracle, as a result of the CPU handles simulation, and the PS5 Professional’s CPU solely will increase efficiency by 10%. Within the unlikely occasion GTA 6 has a 60fps mode on PS5, it’ll run at 60fps on PS5 Professional.
Whereas the PS5 Professional’s CPU seems to be like a modest enchancment, the PS5 Professional is a lot better than the PS5 at rendering, in line with Digital Foundry. PS5 Professional, Digital Foundry predicts, is able to upscaling 1080p older PS5 video games to 4K through its upscaling/antialiasing resolution PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision Upscaling), if the developer chooses to assist the tech with a patch.
Digital Foundry says PS5 Professional will retain the identical 16GB of GDDR6 reminiscence as the usual PS5, however has an additional 1.2GB of system RAM for builders.
Final month, analysts signaled that Sony is “seemingly” to launch the PS5 Professional later in 2024. Sony has type relating to releasing a Professional model of its consoles. The PS4 Professional, for instance, launched in November 2016, three years after the PS4 got here out. A PS5 Professional launch this November would come 4 years after the PS5 launched in November 2020.
Sony has revised its PS5 gross sales forecast for the present monetary yr, down from its lofty goal of 25 million consoles bought to 21 million. This comes regardless of a year-on-year improve in PS5 gross sales for the vacation 2023 quarter, from 7.1 million bought to eight.2 million.
Elsewhere, Sony has mentioned it is not going to launch any main present PlayStation franchise video games earlier than April 2025, ruling out massive sequels within the God of Conflict and Spider-Man franchises any time quickly.
Final month, Sony introduced a devastating wave of layoffs affecting over 900 employees at its gaming enterprise. Sony’s London studio is to shut.
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