It’s possible that more PS5 Pro specifications and information, such as the release date of Sony’s purportedly powerful PS5 console, have leaked online. We have covered the PS5 Pro model in our reports on multiple occasions. As reported in May of this year, Sony is reportedly 100% committed to developing a Pro console.
It was stated more recently that the console is expected to be powered by a unique eight-core Zen 2 CPU, maybe quadruple the performance of the Tempest Engine, two shader engines, and more.
It’s interesting to note that the first rumor was part of a bigger one from leaker Tom Henderson, who also stated that Sony was developing a PS5 model that was thinner. This has turned out to be accurate, as the majority of you are aware, and the thinner PS5 variants are currently offered everywhere.
A user has now allegedly provided further information and specs about Sony’s PS5 Pro model on the ResetEra forums. The PS5 Pro model is rumored to be unveiled in September of next year. The speculated Pro model’s CPU boost is reportedly not that big when compared to the PS5’s current CPU, as suggested by leaker @Kepler_L2 earlier this month.
This fresh information from the ResetEra user also provides some more CPU specifics. Based on this “leak,” the Zen2 architecture seen in the PS5 model will remain the same in the Pro model but with a greater dynamic peak frequency.
Remarkably, this updated data also refers to “accelerated ray tracing,” a concept that Tom Henderson also brought up in July of this year. Below, via RandomlyRandom 67, are the details that were shared on the ResetEra forums:
- Viola is fabbed on TSMC N4P.
- GFX1115
- Viola’s CPU is maintaining the zen2 architecture found in the existing PS5 for compatibility, but the frequency will once again be dynamic with a peak of 4.4GHz. 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 8 MB of L3 shared (4 MB per CCX).
- Viola’s die is 30WGPs when fully enabled, but it will only have 28WGPs (56 CUs) enabled for the silicon in retail PS5 Pro units.
- Trinity is the culmination of three key technologies. Fast storage (hardware accelerated compression and decompression, already an existing key PS5 technology), accelerated ray tracing, and upscaling.
- Architecture is RDNA3, but it’s taking ray tracing improvements from RDNA4. BVH traversal will be handled by dedicated RT hardware rather than fully relying on the shaders. It will also include thread reordering to reduce data and execution divergence, something akin to Ada Lovelace SER and Intel Arc’s TSU.
- 3584 shaders, 224 TMUs, and 96 ROPs.
- 16GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6. 256-bit memory bus with 576 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- The GPU frequency target is 2.0 GHz. This lands the dual-issue TFLOPs in the range of 28.67 TFLOPs peak (224 (TMUs) * 2 (operations, dual issue) * 2 (core clock)). 14.33 TFLOPs if we ignore the dual-issue factor.
- 50-60% rasterization uplift over Oberon and Oberon Plus, over twice the raw RT performance.
- XDNA2 NPU will be featured for the purpose of accelerating Sony’s bespoke temporal machine learning upscaling technique. This will be one of the core focuses of the PS5 Pro, as we saw with checkboard rendering for the PS4 Pro. Temporally stable upscaled 4K output at higher than 30 FPS is the goal.
- September 2024 reveal
The Sony PS5 Pro has the potential to utilize 60 of the 64 CUs present on the Viola SOC, as noted by Kepler_L2:
This is what AMD leaker said about 56 out of 60 CUs assumption for the PS5 pro so these might be fake. https://t.co/zZmBnNpnVG
— ked | 🎮 yakuzakiwami2 (@Ps_FF_FAN) December 11, 2023
When questioned about these additional PS5 Pro specs that have leaked on X (previously Twitter), Tom Henderson said he was unable to answer. The leaker went on to say that because dev kits are being sent to outside developers, Sony anticipates that the console’s complete specifications will surface this month.
Naturally, as of right now, none of the aforementioned details have received formal confirmation. Actually, as of right now, Sony hasn’t even acknowledged that a Pro model exists. As such, for the time being, take this “info” very, very lightly. As soon as we receive additional information, we’ll let you know.
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