The PlayStation 5‘s hardware will offer a different approach than the Xbox Series X.

Ryan Shah, the CEO and lead programmer of Kitatus and Friends (a UK-based indie studio) talked with WCCFTech about what he thinks with the PlayStation 5’s boost mode. The CPU and the GPU (both coming from AMD – the former is based on the Ryzen Zen 2, the latter is based on the RDNA 2 Navi architecture, respectively; the Xbox Series X will use similar hardware) will have varying clock speeds. The CPU’s max is 3.5 GHz, while the GPU’s maximum clock speed will hit 2.23 GHz.

„I think it’s a bit like when developing for PC, where you have access to all those different hardware and you can kind of tune things based on your needs. And what Sony is essentially saying is, here’s your tool of options, you can throttle to the max. We prefer if you didn’t, but if there’s like a fringe case where you’re just off that tiny bit of performance you need, we will let you squeeze a little bit extra. It also opens up a lot of different opportunities such as, say that you wanted to take rendering for some specific thing like a particle and you wanted to run it through something like the CPU for a specific cutscene, that’d be possible now whereas historically you had to be careful that you didn’t flood a specific thread.

It opens up a lot of interesting opportunities of offloading that kind of stuff elsewhere on the machine, which is something that’s getting less and less common, to offload other parts of the machine, but it seems like especially from PlayStation 5’s technical conference by Mark Cerny a few weeks back, they’re pushing for that ‘Here’s the hardware. Here’s how you access what you need, go in and make something beautiful’ kind of mantra,” Shah said.

Let’s hope Shah’s game, Nth^0: Infinity Reborn (out in February on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC) will make good use of it. The PlayStation 5 will launch this Holiday season, but its pricing and release date (mid-November?) haven’t been announced yet.

Source: WCCFTech

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