Insider Gaming founder Tom Henderson has shared new details about the possible specifications of the PS5 Pro, a console that will theoretically ship with a configuration 3.85 GHz Zen 2 8-core processor. This frequency is lower than previous rumors that claimed it would be able to reach 4.4 GHz.

Compared to the PS5, that means 10% frequency increase, because the said console has a processor that runs at 3.5 GHz. It goes without saying that this is not a major improvement, but it should be enough to slightly improve performance in CPU-dependent scenarios. Where we’ll see a more significant improvement is in bandwidth, as the PS5 Pro will ship with 18Gb/s GDDR6 memory, which translates into overall bandwidth 576 GB/s, 28% more than PS5.

The PS5 Pro’s sound chip has also improved over the solution used in the PS5. It works at a higher operating frequency that allows this increase performance by 35% working with the ACM library. To all this, we have to add what we already told you when we reviewed the PS5 Pro specs that were confirmed.

PS5 Pro repeats the CPU architecture but makes a big leap in GPU

This is undoubtedly the most important thing we need to clarify. Sony’s new console will again use the Zen 2 processor, but its GPU will make a leap RDNA 4 architecture, something we can confirm by reference BVH8which explains why such a huge advance in ray tracing performance has been discussed.

It is evident that Sony has made a clear statement in favor of ray tracing with the PS5 Pro, and that they have also taken into account the weight of AI and the value that good tracing technique can offer. rescaling supported by artificial intelligence. Ray tracing may actually be viable on this console and to a much less limited extent than on the PS5, but until we see it in action it’s best not to get our hopes up.

In terms of shader count, the PS5 Pro GPU will be equivalent to the Radeon RX 7800 XT, but in raw performance under rasterization it will be on par with the Radeon RX 7700. 35.17 TFLOPs of performance in FP32. In ray tracing, it could be on a higher level thanks to those RDNA 4 architecture features, but like I said, it’s better to wait to see what this console can really do.

The PS5 Pro is still scheduled to launch later this year. The console will arrive in two different versions, one with an optical drive and one without an optical drive. The PS5 optical drive should be fully compatible with this new Sony console, which will also retain the 1 TB SSD drive. The price has not yet been announced.

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