NEW PLAYSTATION 5 PRO LEAK HINTS AT 45 PER CENT PERFORMANCE INCREASE

In the last few months, several sources have suggested that Sony is working on a refreshed version of the PlayStation 5. Dubbed the 'PlayStation 5 Pro', the upcoming console internally named "Project Trinity" is said to pack a punch and will be available sometime in the last quarter of the year.

Now, a new report by Digital Foundry suggests that the PlayStation 5 Pro will have a GPU with a base clock speed of 2.18GHz and boosted speeds of up to 2.35GHz along with some restructured cache components.

While the 4GB L2 cache may be the same, Sony is considering doubling the L1 cache from 128KB to 256KB, enabling the PlayStation 5 Pro to "accomodate the larger numbers of compute units per shader engine". The console maker is also said to double the L0 cache from 16KB to 32KB, which may help increase the console's ray tracing performance. This means that the upcoming console may bring a 45 per cent performance boost compared to the current iteration.

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The report also suggests that the PlayStation 5 Pro will be limited by the VRAM bandwidth, which may be the reason why despite the huge TFlop bump, the performance improvement will be limited to around 45 per cent. And while the PlayStation 5 Pro will have much faster clock speeds, only a handful of games will be able to push the much anticipated console to its limit.

The PlayStation 5 Pro might still be powered by an AMD GPU, with a previous report by Insider Gaming hinting that the GPU will perform in line with the Radeon RX 7800 XT, a desktop grade GPU that can easily run games in 4K resolution.

On the CPU side of things, the PlayStation 5 Pro is said to offer boosted clock speeds of up to 3.85GHz, which if true, will make the upcoming console a mere 10 per cent faster than the PlayStation 5. Sony is also said to be working on an image upscaling technology called 'PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution' that can upscale FullHD content to 4K.

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