A new video confirms that emulating games from two generations ago won’t be too difficult on PlayStation 5…

Lowest Logan’s video used an AMD BC-250 card. It’s a card used for crypto mining and features the same silicon used in the PlayStation 5, which is probably where AMD used the chips that weren’t of the same quality as the consoles. The card has 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, but there are some limitations for the PlayStation 5 as two CPU cores are disabled and it only has 24 compute units (CU) instead of 32. This is a significant difference.

To get the card to run games like the PlayStation 5 hardware, YouTube had to overcome a number of challenges, as Windows and several Linux distros wouldn’t run properly. After some experimentation, he found a solution and tried running PlayStation 3 games on the RPCS3 emulator. With excellent results, he disproved the doubters that PS3 emulation would be too much for the PlayStation 5 hardware.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and LittleBigPlanet ran well at native and higher resolutions, even with the PlayStation 5’s hardware limitations. There was also memory animation, and the GPU driver only saw one clock speed on the GPU (450MHz), putting it on par with the far inferior Radeon RX 480, while the PlayStation 5’s GPU is closer to the Radeon RX 6700. This in turn confirms that even if the GPU does not reach maximum performance, it was still able to emulate PS3 games. So it should work on Sony’s console (PlayStation 5 Pro, ditto).

PlayStation 5 can currently only run PlayStation 3 titles from the cloud. We’ve seen patents to make local emulation work, but so far Sony hasn’t made it happen. Maybe this is Sony’s way of pushing PlayStation Plus Premium.

Source: WCCFTech