With just a few days to go until the launch of Sony’s half-generation console, we’re learning more and more details about the PlayStation 5 Pro.

For example, last time we reported on how easy it would be to replace a key part of the console, and now we’re hearing about the size of the PlayStation 5 Pro’s power supply. Sony is packing a 390W power supply in the console’s box, and for comparison, the PlayStation 5’s power supply was 350W. So it’s 40W more, and let’s not forget that the base PS5’s power consumption didn’t go much above 200W during more intense games, so we can conclude that the PlayStation 5 Pro’s consumption is around 240-260W.

From this Reddit post, we could also conclude that Sony is not using TSMC’s N4P manufacturing technology (which would result in lower power consumption), but instead the PlayStation 5 Pro’s SoC (system-on-a-chip) is based on TSMC’s N6. The extra 2GB of DDR5 RAM is about what we would expect. It brings the same benefits that the PlayStation 4 Pro offered over the PlayStation 4: extra dedicated memory to offload non-gaming apps so developers can access even more VRAM.

The PlayStation 5 Pro’s TFLOPS computing power is likely to be different from the number Sony is reporting, because Sony is not using the double precision number in their documentation and marketing, as we suspected (and previously leaked). They only use the traditional TFLOPS number in the manual. This TFLOPS number would mean that the GPU is running at about 2.18GHz maximum clock speed. A direct TFLOPS comparison between the base PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series will be more reliable (with the usual caveat that comparing TFLOPS between GPU architectures isn’t always super reliable, but in terms of rasterization, RDNA3 is super similar to RDNA2).

PlayStation 5 Pro will be available in stores from November 7th.

Source: Reddit