The PS5 Pro is rumored to arrive towards the end of the year if early leaks pan out to be true it could be a major upgrade over the current version. Leaked info about the upcoming console began surfacing last week and Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has said that he has confirmation of its specifications. Aside from numerous hardware improvements, the PS5 Pro is rumored to introduce its upscaling technology called PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) which could enable up to 4x ray tracing performance improvement over the current gen models.
PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution)
It has been said (MLID via NotebookCheck) that PSSR uses temporal antialiasing upscaling and is hardware-accelerated by machine learning. This is similar to how DLSS functions in NVIDIA GPUs except that it reportedly does not require per-game training. Supposed leaked documents state that PSSR will support upscaling for 1080p up to 4K resolutions, including Dynamic Resolution and HDR, and requires 250 MB of memory to operate but introduces an added latency of 2 ms. However, even if true, Sony could easily fine-tune it further thus changing these specifications.
Rumored Specs
The PS5 Pro is expected to upgrade to RDNA3 but ongoing rumors also suggest that the custom AMD APU might include some RDNA4 technology. Such cross-generational hybridizations are not wholly unheard of when it comes to custom chips, especially when a new generation of silicon is on the horizon. Insider Gaming has obtained documents for the PS5 Pro via the developer Portal but said it’s held to confidentiality clauses and cannot release them. It has also been reported that devkits have been sent out.
While current-gen consoles may not truly compare to high-end PCs regarding 4K gaming, one detail listed below is that Sony might add 8K support to the PS5 Pro via a post-launch update. This too has been an ongoing rumor for the next console. Despite being unable to release the official documents Insider Gaming has listed some general specs that paint a plausible picture of what to expect from the upcoming console.
Per Insider Gaming:
- Rendering 45% faster than PS5
- 2-3x Ray-tracing (x4 in some cases)
- 33.5 Teraflops
- PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling) upscaling/antialiasing solution
- Support for resolutions up to 8K is planned for future SDK version
- Custom machine learning architecture
- AI Accelerator, supporting 300 TOPS of 8 bit computation / 67 TFLOPS of 16-bit floating point
One last rumor is that while Sony might target the 2024 holiday season for launching the PS5 Pro it might delay it if there are not enough launch titles to support it. In either case, the real questions for consumers would be if they could actually obtain one at launch given the infamous scalping that happened with the first PS5 and what it will cost.