Sony has officially announced the much-anticipated PS5 Pro. You’ll need to dig deep into your pocket for it, though: the new console has a price tag of $700 and it will arrive on November 7. And, as with the PS5 Slim, if you want a disc drive or a vertical stand, you’ll have to shell out extra.
The Pro offers some notable improvements on the specs of the original PS5, which was released in 2020. Sony focused on three core upgrades: a larger GPU, advanced ray-tracing and AI-driven upscaling.
That GPU has 67 percent more compute units and 28 percent faster RAM than the standard PS5. As such, according to the console’s lead architect Mark Cerny, the new console will be able to deliver up to 45 percent faster rendering. Ray-tracing performance could be up to three times as fast as on PS5. Meanwhile, Sony’s AI-upscaling tech (i.e. its take on the likes of NVIDIA’s DLSS) is called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, or PSSR.
Of course, Sony’s own studios have been updating their games to take advantage of these upgrades. Cernys presentation highlighted The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Horizon Forbidden West and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 as among the games that are benefitting from improved visual fidelity and/or frame rates. Third-party partners are planning to tap into the PS5 Pro’s extra power too, with patches on the way for the likes of Alan Wake 2, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, Demon’s Souls, Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
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