A new leak may have disclosed additional information about the PS5 Pro, which is still not confirmed by Sony itself.
While Sony has not officially confirmed the existence of a PS5 Pro, there's plenty of evidence to suggest a mid-generation update is on the way.
Various reports dating back to last July have made claims about the console’s power, with some describing it as ‘4K ray-tracing monster’ while others have stated that it will be roughly twice as powerful as the current model.
Now, another set of technical specifications have apparently leaked, indicating it will be a significant upgrade over the original PlayStation 5.
As per an alleged leak document, shared by YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead, the PS5 Pro will be 45% faster in rendering performance compared to the original console. It’s also claimed to be two to three times faster in terms of ray-tracing speed, with the potential to reach four times the speed ‘in some cases’.
The document also mentions that the PS5 Pro, codenamed Trinity, will have a custom machine learning architecture capable of 300 TOPS (tera operations per second) of 8-bit computation and 67 teraflops of 16-bit floating point, corresponding to around 33.5 teraflops of FP32 (single-precision floating-point format) performance.
It’s said all this extra power will be used mainly for Sony’s new in-house upscaling technology, supposedly called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR).
For comparison, the Xbox Series X has an average of 12 teraflops of peak FP32, while the original PlayStation 5 GPU is capable of 10.28 teraflops. Therefore, the 33.5 teraflops figure would be quite the power boost if it turns out to be true.
While these specifications should be taken with a pinch of salt, it does line up with previous rumors that the PS5 Pro will be a more significant upgrade than the jump between the PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro.
If the PS5 Pro looks likely to be a technical juggernaut, the bigger question is when it will be announced. Previous rumours claimed it will be released later this year, although after Sony revised its PS5 sales targets through 2024, there is now some doubt over whether that will actually happen.
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