We’re only a few days away from the release of Sony’s half-generation console update, but we’ve already got a peek “under the skirt”…
A Brazilian YouTube channel has shared a video of the PlayStation 5 Pro below, which gives us a closer look at the internals (including how easy it is to replace the CMOS battery, which has been in the news recently), and although it’s in Portuguese, the focus is on what we can see. What we can see is that the PlayStation 5 Pro’s internals are slightly different from the base PlayStation 5.
There’s also talk of the PlayStation 5 Pro getting an extra 2 gigabytes of DDR5 RAM, which Sony has presumably packed into the device for the operating system. This will give developers the full 16GB of GDDR6 RAM to use in games. The processor, of course, remains the same AMD Zen 2-based x86-64, 8-core, 16-thread model. The TFLOPS performance was mentioned the other day, the GPU is 45% faster (and its ray tracing performance is better), the machine learning hardware offers PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) AI-based upscaling, the NVMe storage is 2TB, and in return the console can be used as a semi-refrigerator, as the spec sheet shared on Twitter (also in Portuguese) shows the PlayStation 5 Pro weighs around 3.1kg.
The PlayStation 5 Pro isn’t really mainstream, as it’s more of a hardcore enthusiast model where Sony will have a higher profit margin to compensate for the fact that it won’t be produced as much as the basic PlayStation 5. This model is clearly for those who don’t want to compromise on the current generation of consoles.
The PlayStation 5 Pro will be released on November 7th, so it’s really only a few months until you can buy it for $700/€800 (but that doesn’t include the stand or Blu-ray drive).
Source: WCCFTech
