PlayStation five Pro rumors imply RDNA three photographs with up to 60 compute devices

Rumor mill: Rumors have circulated all yr concerning a extra effective refresh of Sony's PlayStation five console, however a brand new leaker has furnished what is purportedly the primary comprehensive spec sheet. Meanwhile, any other, extra set up leaker says we may additionally soon know whether or not the rumored specifications are authentic.

An unverified leaker at the Resetera boards claims the PlayStation five Pro will offer a 50-to-60 percent upgrade in rasterization overall performance even as doubling ray tracing performance. The new console may additionally consist of hardware for gadget gaining knowledge of-primarily based upscaling much like DLSS or XeSS.

If the statistics is truthful, the PS5 Pro's enhancements appear conceptually much like those the PlayStation four Pro remodeled its predecessor. Sony might another time use a TSMC die cut back to improve GPU performance drastically and supply a minor CPU upgrade.

The leaker, named "RandomlyRandom67," claims the PS5 Pro's SoC, which trusted leaker Kepler L2 previously known as "Voila," is based on TSMC's 5nm N4P procedure. The shift would mark the console's 0.33 semiconductor node after the original PS5's 7nm N7 and Oberon Plus revision's 6nm N6.

Yeah I was genuinely incorrect about that �... PS5 Pro uses 60 out of 64 CUs (Viola complete config is 2 SE x 2 SA x 8 WGP).

– Kepler (@Kepler L2) December 11, 2023

Viola's CPU would preserve the PS5's Zen 2 architecture and slightly growth the variable clock speed's cap from three.5GHz to 4.4GHz. It might characteristic 64KB of L1 cache per center, 512KB of L2 cache per middle, and 8MB of cut up L3 cache. The information helps Kepler's statement of a small CPU improve. Memory bandwidth rises from 448GB/s to 576GB/s.

Meanwhile, the GPU architecture actions from RDNA 2 to RDNA 3 with a few functions from AMD's upcoming RDNA 4 series. Compared to the PS5's 36 compute units, Random67 claims the upgraded model will encompass fifty six, but Kepler says 60. Random67 also claims the PS5 Pro capabilities 3,584 shaders, 224 TMUs, and 96 ROPs.

While traditional rendering performance might best boom by way of half, ray tracing overall performance may want to greater than double due to RDNA 4's enhancements. The new variant would possibly circulate the assignment from shaders onto devoted RT hardware just like Nvidia's RTX GPUs.

Another overall performance gain should come from AMD's these days found out XDNA2 AI accelerators, which Sony could use for machine gaining knowledge of-based upscaling. Many PS5 games currently rent upscaling via FSR's spatial and temporal strategies, but comparisons with DLSS and XeSS suggest system mastering may want to improve image best even as drawing fewer "actual" pixels, for this reason protecting horsepower. The function may want to serve a function for the PS5 Pro just like what checkerboard rendering did for the PS4 Pro.

Tom Henderson from Insider Gaming, who in March indicated the upgraded console would cognizance on advanced ray tracing, declined to touch upon the new records's veracity. However, he stated Sony expects the PS5 Pro's specs to leak this month as 0.33-birthday party developers start to get hold of development kits. According to Random67, the agency plans for a September 2024 unveiling.