The PlayStation 5 will be stronger than the PlayStation 4 Pro (let alone the base model and the PlayStation 4 Slim…), but by how much?

During EGX 2019, DigitalFoundry has confirmed that the codenames of the PlayStation 5’s SoC (System on a chip) are as what the rumours said, so they are called Gonzalo, Oberon, and Prospero. In the past few months, some reviews (that we discussed as well) allow us to figure out that the PlayStation 5’s CPU (which will be based on AMD’s Ryzen Zen 2 architecture, having eight cores and sixteen threads) will have a 3.2 GHz clock speed. It will be necessary because we have heard and wrote about rumours that the PlayStation 5 would have full backward compatibility, meaning games from all four previous PS consoles would be supported, and that would fit the patents that Sony has filed (and we wrote about them, too).

Regarding the Gonzalo APU, we wrote that it will have a better performance than Nvidia’s GTX 1080 (even though that is a bit outdated by this point) and that it would have four times more performance than the PlayStation 4. There might be a lot of improvements, yes, but we have yet to experience the PlayStation 5 in action to have a proper opinion.

There’s more than a year until that happens, though, as the PlayStation 5 will launch in late 2020. However, we wrote a few days ago about a store potentially revealing the console’s price in Europe, as well as its release date. Nothing is confirmed, though, so take it all with a grain of salt – we have to wait for Sony to officially announce and reveal the PlayStation 5, whose development kit that got leaked looks quite the ugly duckling.

Source: WCCFTech

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