During the PS5 Pro presentation, I remember Mark Cerny emphasizing that this console will be able to dual ray tracing performancethanks to the use of a GPU with an architecture “not available on a PC”, according to Černý’s exact words.

Sounds good on paper, but doubling the performance of something that worked very poorly It’s not out of this world. The PS5 does not have a GPU capable of real ray tracing, we verified this by analyzing many games where we always found an unstable 30 FPS and very limited and poor quality ray tracing.

Now that the PS5 Pro has arrived, it’s the perfect time to check whether the upgrade that Sony announced with great fanfare is really as spectacular as it says, or if it’s really just another hype of the company’s marketing machine. I’m already telling you The results point to the second possibility.

Alan Wake 2 and ray tracing on PS5 Pro are not up to par

In a video shared by Digital Foundry, we can see how Alan Wake 2 behaves on PS5 Pro with ray tracing enabled. That was it one of the most praised novelties with the arrival of this new console and it makes sense since the PS5 version does not have any type of ray tracing.

The PS5 Pro version has a quality mode that activates ray tracing, but lit mimics your reflex application and scrolls the game at 30 FPS. The differences with the PS5 are noticeable, as without ray tracing the reflections are terrible. Ray tracing applied to reflections is one of the least demanding implementations, but with the biggest impact on graphics quality, so it was the best choice for Sony and Remedy in terms of quality and performance.

Since Alan Wake 2 on PS5 Pro does not use ray tracing in shadows and lighting, The PC version is much better in these respects. Even with low quality ray tracing, the difference in favor of the PC is huge, as can be seen in the various comparison images that appear in the video.

If we compare the graphic quality offered by the ray tracing PS5 Pro in the reflections with the PC in low quality, it is clear that the Sony console is not doing well. Ray tracing was used in Alan Wake 2 is worse than low quality mode on PCwhich says a lot.

Look at the picture of the puddle in the middle of the article. In it we can see that the PS5 Pro version reflects fewer elements than the PC version with poor quality ray tracing and also these reflections are displayed low level of detail and very poor sharpness. There are also issues with the color of the sky and the overall quality leaves a lot to be desired.

In the second image, the PS5 Pro shows no reflection in the wood located in the upper area, which is correctly generated in the PC version with a low quality ray tracing. The Sony console displays a graphic glitch evident and also presents “glittering” in that section. This type of problem occurs in many other areas of the game as the video shows.

At the end of the video there is a very simple performance test where they confirm that the PS5 Pro runs at around 49 FPS in performance mode (unfortunately the test is static), while the GeForce RTX 3070 reaches 54 FPS. Without activating image generation, The GeForce RTX 4070 achieves 71 FPS, which means it is 41% more powerful than the PS5 Pro GPU.