The PS5 Professional leak reveals an enormous bounce in efficiency

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Sony is certainly engaged on a extra superior model of the PlayStation 5 that would function a extra highly effective GPU that’s doubtlessly as much as thrice sooner for particular duties in comparison with present PS5 fashions.

YouTuber Moore’s Legislation is Useless claims to have obtained a technical overview doc for the PS5 Professional, code-named Trinity, and Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has confirmed the leaked specs’ accuracy, which suggests a vacation 2024 launch window for the console.

The leaked technical doc mentions a number of the potential specs, together with 67 teraflops of 16-bit floating-point calculations, which interprets to round 33.5 teraflops of single-precision compute. This can be a 45% rendering efficiency enhance over the usual PS5, which operates at 10.28 teraflops.

Now, evaluating teraflops between the 2 consoles doesn’t actually make sense because of architectural modifications in AMD’s RDNA know-how. The PS5 Professional might doubtlessly transfer from a setup akin to an AMD Radeon RX 6700 to one thing nearer to a Radeon RX 7800 XT, providing improved ray tracing capabilities and as much as thrice the efficiency in some instances.

	Sony PlayStation 5 Professional	Sony PlayStation 5
CPU	AMD Zen 2 structure 8-cores, 16 threads at 3.5GHz / 3.85GHz	AMD Zen 2 structure 8-cores, 16 threads at 3.5GHz
Compute items	60 CUs, RDNA 3 (unconfirmed)	36 CUs, RDNA 2
TFLOPs	33.5TF	10.23TF
GPU clock speeds	2.18GHz (unconfirmed)	2.23GHz
Reminiscence	16GB GDDR6 at 18Gbps	16GB GDDR6 at 14Gbps
Reminiscence interface	256-bit/576GB/s	256-bit/448GB/s

Further particulars from Henderson point out that the PS5 Professional would possibly comply with the latest PS5 redesign, with a removable disc drive and sooner system reminiscence working at 576 GB/s, together with improved audio {hardware} able to processing extra results.

The Professional variant can also be rumored to share the identical CPU as the bottom PS5, however might embrace a “Excessive CPU Frequency Mode” that can enhance clocks as much as 3.85GHz, leading to a ten% efficiency enhance. Nonetheless, activating this mode could barely throttle the GPU.

The leak additionally suggests the inclusion of PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision (PSSR), a machine learning-based upscaling know-how just like Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR that doubtlessly helps upscaling to 8K resolutions and enhancing ray tracing efficiency on the PS5 Professional {hardware}. For a complete breakdown of the leaks, we advocate trying out Digital Foundry’s video, which additionally confirms the validity of the leaks.

Whereas preliminary leaks have raised some skepticism, Henderson’s insights, indicating Sony’s first-party studios testing PS5 Professional dev kits since September and third events gaining entry in January, align with earlier stories of a focused November 2024 launch for the PS5 Professional.