Sony is said to be preparing a new version of its home console, the PlayStation 5 Pro, which is obviously much more powerful.
Just a few weeks ago, Sony launched the second version of its PlayStation 5, a "slim" version that doesn't reduce the size of the Japanese manufacturer's console all that much, but does offer a few improvements. For more changes, we'll have to wait a few more months for the release of a PlayStation 5 Pro, which has not yet been made official by Sony. So we're only at the rumor stage, even if the previous generation suggests that a technical update is inevitable.
The PlayStation 4 went on sale in November 2013. Sony then waited three years before releasing the "slim" version. However, this smaller version was followed by the "pro" version, released in November 2016. Sony has already decided to change pace, and if the latest rumors are to be believed, the PlayStation 5 Pro will not be unveiled before September 2024. According to the same rumors quoted by WCCFTech, two months after this official presentation, the console would be on the market.
Yeah I was actually wrong about that 😅 PS5 Pro uses 60 out of 64 CUs (Viola full config is 2 SE x 2 SA x 8 WGP).
- Kepler (@Kepler_L2) December 11, 2023
WCCFTech tells us that at the heart of Sony's next console, we should find a component signed by AMD - the American brand was already at work on the PlayStation 5 - in this case a chip called Viola engraved by the Taiwanese foundry TSMC in 4 nm. For the CPU, AMD is planning 8 Zen 2 cores clocked at 4.4 GHz, with 512 Kb of L2 cache per core and 8 Mb of shared L3 cache. For graphics, we're talking about the RDNA 3 architecture, of course, but with a few features from the future RDNA 4, notably to improve ray tracing support.
Rumors suggest 60 computing units for a total of 3,584 shader units, 224 texture units and 96 ROPs. Sony combines this Viola chip with 16 GB of GDDR6 at 18 Gbps and a 256-bit interface bus: WCCFTech speaks of a maximum bandwidth of 576 GB/s. Beyond simple technical data, this change of main chip should enable Sony to greatly boost the performance of its conosle: in rasterization, the PS5 Pro's Viola SoC is said to be 50-60% higher than the PS5's Oberon SoC, while raw computing power is estimated at 14.33 TFLOPs versus 10.3 TFLOPs for the PS5. A monster of power, then, with no competitor for the moment: no official information or rumors from the Xbox camp for the time being.
